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muḍāriʿـُيَفْعُلُ·ـَيَفْعَلُخُلُوفٌmaṣdarخَلْفٌ خِلَافَةٌ خُلُوفٌ خَلَافَةٌ

Core sense — he came after him, he succeeded him; he was his substitute; it became altered for the worsegenerated

1.1and there has succeeded them, or come after them, [a posterity, or] an evil posterity—فَخَلَفَ مِنْ بَعْدِهِمْ خَلْفٌ

He came after, followed, succeeded, or remained after, another, or another who had perished or died..

he came after him—خَلَفَهُ

See also the article دبر.

Or behind him; or following him closely. Maṣdar as above, and also خِلْفَةٌ; or: he remained after him. And جَآءَ خِلَافَهُ means the same as جآء خَلْفَهُ, a maṣdar of خَالَفَ used as an adverbial noun; that is, he came after him.

the night followed, or came after, the day—خَلَفَ اللَّيْلُ النَّهَارَ

Maṣdar خَلْفٌ and خِلْفَةٌ.

Lane cites “Bd in xix. 60” — a commentary, not the verse; no modern number is given
1.1.1I was, after him, a substitute for him—خَلَفْتُهُ

[I supplied his place: and I superseded him.]

perhaps a mistranscription for خَلَفَ.

he was, or became, his خَلِيفَة [i. e. successor, or vice-agent, &c.], or his substitute—خَلَفَهُ

Muḍāriʿ as above; maṣdar خِلَافَةٌ, خَلَفٌ, and خِلِّيقَى, the last being an intensive maṣdar.

[among, or in respect of, his people]—فِى قَوْمِهِ
[his family]—أَهْلِهِ
[he charged him by his will with being his successor, or vice-agent, and the like]—أَوْصَى لَهُ بِالخِلَافَةِ
[over his family and his property]—عَلَى أَهْلِهِ وَمَالِهِ
he was, or became, his خَلِيفَة after him—اختفلهُ
he was, or became, the خَلِيفَةٌ of such a one among his family and his children—خَلَفَ فُلَانًا
his Lord was [for him] a خَلِيفَة [or supplier of his place] to his family and his children—خَلَفَهُ رَبُّهُ فِى أَهْلِهِ

This applies to good and to evil alike.

Lh and Ibn-ʿAbbād give this the same meaning.

Also وَلَدِهِ.

In the CK اخلف is given the same meaning, but that is the result of an omission.

may God be to you a خَلِيفَة [or supplier of the place] of your father, or of the one you have lost—خَلَفَ ٱللّٰهُ عَلَيْكَ
may God supply well to you the place of the one you have lost—خَلَفَ ٱللّٰهُ عَلَيْكَ خَيْرًا

Said to one who has lost by death his father, or mother, or paternal uncle, or any other who cannot be replaced.

Also بِخَيْرٍ, or both forms; and خَلَفَ ٱللّٰهُ لَكَ بِخَيْرٍ, أَخْلَفَ ٱللّٰهُ عَلَيْكَ خَيْرًا, and لَكَ خَيْرًا.

may God restore to you the like of what has gone from you—أَخْلَفَ ٱللّٰهُ عَلَيْكَ

The K implies that these phrases mean: may God supply well to you the place of the one you have lost. The Msb implies that the two it mentions mean: may God restore to you good in the place of what has gone from you. What follows suggests that all of them have the latter meaning, whether or not they also have the former.

Said to one who has lost property, or a child, or anything else that may be replaced, or of whom something replaceable has perished or died.

Also اخلف اللّٰه لَكَ and خَلَفَ اللّٰه لك; or خَلَفَ اللّٰه عَلَيْكَ is allowable of property and the like; and يَخْلَفُ, like يَمْنَعُ, is allowable as its muḍāriʿ, though irregular, since it has no faucial letter to cause the fatḥah.

may God give you good in the place of what has gone from you—خَلَفَ ٱللّٰهُ لَكَ بِخَيْرٍ

اخلف عَلَيْكَ خَيْرًا means the same; and so do اخلف لَكَ خَيْرًا, بِخَيْرٍ, اخلف ٱللّٰهُ عَلَيْكَ مَالَكَ, and لَكَ مَالَكَ [may God restore, or replace, to you your property].

he became behind his father—خَلَفَ أَبَاهُ

if that is the meaning, its maṣdar is خَلْفٌ. Or it means: he became in the place of his father, and then its maṣdar is خَلَفٌ.

he became in the place of his father, to the exclusion of all others—خَلَفَ مَكَانَ أَبِيهِ

Maṣdar خِلَافَةٌ and خَلَفٌ.

the fruit replaced other fruit, or became substituted for other fruit—خَلَفَتِ الفَاكِهَةِ بَعْضُهَا بَعْضًا

Maṣdar خَلْفٌ or خَلَفٌ, and خِلْفَةٌ.

In the CK صَارَ خَلْفًا is wrongly put for صَارَتْ خَلَفًا.

such a man took such a woman as his wife after another husband, and so supplied his place—خَلَفَ فُلَانٌ عَلَى فُلَانَةَ

like عَقَبَ عَلَيْهَا.

1.1.2he took, or seized, such a one from behind him—خَلَفَ ُلَانًا

. اختلفهُ means the same.

he came to him from behind him and struck his neck, or struck off his head, with the sword—خَلَفَ لَهُ بِالسَّيْفِ
1.1.3such a one stayed, or remained, after me—خَلَفَ فُلَانٌ بِعَقِبِى

So explained under the article عقب.

1.1.4he parted from such a one agreeing to do one thing, then came behind his back and did another—خَلَفَ بِعَقَبِ فُلَانٍ

Some say it means خَالَفَهُ إِلَى أَهْلِهِ. As gives the explanation above, and Az says that this is the better of the two explanations.

the wife of such a one is unfaithful to her husband, yearning towards another when he is away from her—إِنَّ ٱمْرَأَةَ فُلَانٍ تَخْلُفُ زَوْجَهَا بِالنِّزَاعِ إِلَى غَيْرِهِ إِذَا غَابَ عَنْهَا

Or: she deceives her husband behind his back by yearning towards another; an example given implies that اذا غاب عنها is added by way of explanation.

he spoke of him, or mentioned him, behind his back, when he was not present—خَلَفَهُ

As in the phrase خَلَفَهُ بِخَيْرٍ or بِشَرٍّ [he spoke of him behind his back well or ill].

[he defames men behind their backs]—يَخْلُفُ النَّاسَ مِنْ وَرَائِهِمْ

The action meant is like غِيبَةٌ, and may be done by signs with the side of the mouth, with the eye, or with the head. See the article همز.

1.1.5he remained behind his companions; he did not go out with them—خَلَفَ عَنْ أَصْحَابِهِ

. Also قَعَدَ خِلَافَ أَصْحَابِهِ, in the same sense as تخلّف, which is synonymous with تَأَخَّرَ, as in the phrase تخلّف عَنِّى [he remained behind me, or after me]; for تخلّف عَنْهُ means بَقِىَ خَلْفَهُ.

he remained behind the people, not going with them; he held back from them—تخلّف عَنِ لاقَوْمِ
I remained behind him, or after him—قَعَدْتُ خِلَافَهُ
he remained behind us, or after us—خالف عَنَّا

Synonymous with تخلّف.

but in that case they should not have remained after you save a little while—وَ إِذَا لَا يَلْبَثُونَ خِلَافَكَ إِلَّا قَلِيلًا

Qur'ān 17:78, according to one reading; the other reading, خَلْفَكَ, means the same.

those who were left behind rejoiced in their remaining behind the Apostle of God—فَرِحَ المُخَلَّفُونَ بِمَقْعَدِهِمْ خِلَافَ رَسُولِ ٱللّٰهِ

Qur'ān 9:82. Or the meaning here is مُخَالَفَةَ رسول اللّٰه [in disagreement with the Apostle of God]: so says Lh. But IB disagrees with him, saying that خلاف here means بَعْدَ, and cites six examples of this meaning from the poets.

1.1.6figurative · مجاز — inferredsuch a one was kept back from all good; he did not prosper, or was not successful—خَلَفَ فُلَانٌ عَنْ كُلِّ خَيْرٍ

The A explains it as figurative and as meaning تَغَيَّرَ وَفَسَدَ, but this is perhaps a mistake caused by the accidental dropping of وَخَلَفَ اللَّبَنُ or the like, of which that is a correct explanation. Or the phrase so explained may rightly mean: he became altered for the worse, and corrupt, which agrees with other explanations of the verb given below.

1.1.7figurative · مجاز — inferredhe (a man) retired, withdrew, or went away—خَلَفَ

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his soul turned away from the food, avoiding or shunning it, because of disease—خَلَفَتْ نَفْسَهُ عَنِ الطَّعَامِ

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1.1.8

And he fled.

1.1.9

And he (a man) ascended a mountain.

1.2

See also form 2, first sentence.

1.3figurative · مجازit was, or became, different from what it was thought to be—خَلَفَ

Said of the taste of water.. And hence: it was, or became, altered for the worse.

it was, or became, altered for the worse in taste, or in odour—خَلُفَ

Said of milk, of food, and the like; some say this form. for both verbs. Also اخلف.

Or, said of milk, the first verb means it went bad from being long kept; or, as the A has it, the good of it became mixed with other milk.

اخلف, said of milk, also means it turned sour; and the first verb, said of the drink called نَبِيذ, means it went bad.

Said of the mouth of a person fasting: it was, or became, altered for the worse in odour. Maṣdar خُلُوفٌ, خُلُوفَةٌ, and خِلْفَةٌ; also اخلف.

A tradition says that the خُلُوف of the mouth of one who is fasting is sweeter in God's estimation than the odour of musk. Some of the lawyers and of the relaters of traditions say خَلُوف, but SM thinks this a mistake, as several affirm it to be, while others say it belongs to a bad dialect. According to one reading it is خِلْفَة.

1.3.1figurative · مجاز — inferredhe was, or became, altered for the worse from his father's natural disposition—خَلَفَ عَنْ خُلُقِ أَبِيهِ

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1.3.2figurative · مجاز — inferredhe (a man) was, or became, bad, or corrupt—خَلَفَ

[or خُلُوفٌ].

he (a man) was, or became, bad, or corrupt—خَلْفَ

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1.3.3figurative · مجاز — inferredhe (a man) was, or became, stupid, or foolish—خَلَفَ

. Or: one who had little or no intellect or understanding; or unprofitable; or a frequent breaker of promises.

he (a slave) was, or became, idiotic, deficient in intellect, or bereft of his intellect—خَلَفَ

Also اخلف, said of a slave.

1.4figurative · مجاز — inferredhe drew water, لِأَهْلِهِ, for his family—خَلَفَ

Maṣdar خَلْفٌ, اخلف, and استخلف.

he drew, or brought, sweet water—استخلف

Apparently so called because one who does this leaves his family behind him; see form 2, first sentence.

Said of a man; equivalent to اِسْتَعْذَبَ المَآء; see the article عذب.

I carried sweet water to the people, or party—أَخْلَفْتُ القَوْمَ

IAar: properly, I carried sweet water to them when they were in the season, or herbage, called رَبِيع and without sweet water, or when they were by salt water. إِخْلَافٌ [the carrying, or drawing, of water] properly belongs only to the ربيع; in other cases it is applied figuratively.

El-Hoteiäh says: [To, or for, downy ones, like the young ones of the katà, whose procurer of water has been slow in coming to those lacking the power of spreading their wings for flight, red in their crops]

shāhid 1
لِزُغْبٍ كَأَوْلَادِ القَطَا رَاثَ خَلْفُهَاعَلَى عَاجِزَاتِ النَّهْضِ حُمْرٍ حَوَاصِلُهْ

He means مِخْلِفُهَا [or خَالِفُهَا], and has put the maṣdar in its place. By حواصله, according to Ks, he means حَوَاصِلُ مَا ذَكْرْنَا [the crops of what we have mentioned]. But Fr says that the ه relates to the زغب and not to the عاجزات, which has the plural sign; for any plural that has the form of a singular may be imagined to be a singular, as in the saying of the poet: [meaning “like the young birds of which the crops have been plucked”]

shāhid 2
مِثْلُ الفِرَاخِ نُتِفَتْ حَوَاصِلُهْ

; for الفراخ has no plural sign, but has the form of a singular, like الكِتَاب and الحِجَاب.

Another says — though this is very far-fetched — that the ه relates to النهض, which sometimes means a place in the shoulder-blade of the camel, and that the poet has used it figuratively of the قطا.

1.5he cut the worn-out middle part out of the garment, or shirt, and sewed the [cut] edges together—خَلَفَ الثَّوْبَ

Or القَمِيصَ.; maṣdar خَلْفٌ and خُلْفَةٌ; some copies of the K have خَلْفَةٌ, and some also خُلَفٌ, but these need looking into.

he repaired the garment—اخلف الثَّوْبَ

The same as خَلَفَهُ; apparently in any manner, or, as the S and TA imply, by substituting one piece for another.

1.5.1figurative · مجاز — inferredand when she has marked off the days and nights during which she has been حَائِض—فَإِذَا خَلَفَتْ ذٰلِكَ فَلْتَغْتَسِلْ

From a tradition of Hamneh; [she shall then perform a complete ablution of herself]. It is from خَلَفَ القَمِيص in the sense explained above.

1.6he mixed one thing with another, as milk with other milk—خَلَفَ

Also: he mixed saffron, or medicine, with water.

See خُلِفَ in a passage above.

1.7he made a pole, called a خَالِفَة, for the hinder part of his tent—خَلَفَ بَيْتَهُ
1.8he (a camel) inclined towards one side—خَلِفَ

maṣdar خَلَفٌ.

1.8.1being contrary, hard in disposition, as though walking with a lean towards one side—خَلَفٌ

A maṣdar of خَلِفَ, said of a man; that is, being أَخْلَف.

1.8.2

And being left-handed.

1.8.3

And being أَحْوَل [or squint-eyed].

1.9she (a camel) was, or became, pregnant—خَلِفَتْ

maṣdar خَلَفٌ.

Qur’ānic occurrences Form 1
7:142
وَوَٰعَدْنَا مُوسَىٰ ثَلَـٰثِينَ لَيْلَةً وَأَتْمَمْنَـٰهَا بِعَشْرٍ فَتَمَّ مِيقَـٰتُ رَبِّهِۦٓ أَرْبَعِينَ لَيْلَةً ۚ وَقَالَ مُوسَىٰ لِأَخِيهِ هَـٰرُونَ ٱخْلُفْنِى فِى قَوْمِى وَأَصْلِحْ وَلَا تَتَّبِعْ سَبِيلَ ٱلْمُفْسِدِينَ

We appointed for Moses thirty nights, and completed (the period) with ten (more): thus was completed the term (of communion) with his Lord, forty nights. And Moses had charged his brother Aaron (before he went up): "Act for me amongst my people: Do right, and follow not the way of those who do mischief."

7:150
وَلَمَّا رَجَعَ مُوسَىٰٓ إِلَىٰ قَوْمِهِۦ غَضْبَـٰنَ أَسِفًا قَالَ بِئْسَمَا خَلَفْتُمُونِى مِنۢ بَعْدِىٓ ۖ أَعَجِلْتُمْ أَمْرَ رَبِّكُمْ ۖ وَأَلْقَى ٱلْأَلْوَاحَ وَأَخَذَ بِرَأْسِ أَخِيهِ يَجُرُّهُۥٓ إِلَيْهِ ۚ قَالَ ٱبْنَ أُمَّ إِنَّ ٱلْقَوْمَ ٱسْتَضْعَفُونِى وَكَادُوا۟ يَقْتُلُونَنِى فَلَا تُشْمِتْ بِىَ ٱلْأَعْدَآءَ وَلَا تَجْعَلْنِى مَعَ ٱلْقَوْمِ ٱلظَّـٰلِمِينَ

When Moses came back to his people, angry and grieved, he said: "Evil it is that ye have done in my place in my absence: did ye make haste to bring on the judgment of your Lord?" He put down the tablets, seized his brother by (the hair of) his head, and dragged him to him. Aaron said: "Son of my mother! the people did indeed reckon me as naught, and went near to slaying me! Make not the enemies rejoice over my misfortune, nor count thou me amongst the people of sin."

7:169
فَخَلَفَ مِنۢ بَعْدِهِمْ خَلْفٌ وَرِثُوا۟ ٱلْكِتَـٰبَ يَأْخُذُونَ عَرَضَ هَـٰذَا ٱلْأَدْنَىٰ وَيَقُولُونَ سَيُغْفَرُ لَنَا وَإِن يَأْتِهِمْ عَرَضٌ مِّثْلُهُۥ يَأْخُذُوهُ ۚ أَلَمْ يُؤْخَذْ عَلَيْهِم مِّيثَـٰقُ ٱلْكِتَـٰبِ أَن لَّا يَقُولُوا۟ عَلَى ٱللَّهِ إِلَّا ٱلْحَقَّ وَدَرَسُوا۟ مَا فِيهِ ۗ وَٱلدَّارُ ٱلْـَٔاخِرَةُ خَيْرٌ لِّلَّذِينَ يَتَّقُونَ ۗ أَفَلَا تَعْقِلُونَ

After them succeeded an (evil) generation: They inherited the Book, but they chose (for themselves) the vanities of this world, saying (for excuse): "(Everything) will be forgiven us." (Even so), if similar vanities came their way, they would (again) seize them. Was not the covenant of the Book taken from them, that they would not ascribe to Allah anything but the truth? and they study what is in the Book. But best for the righteous is the home in the Hereafter. Will ye not understand?

19:59
فَخَلَفَ مِنۢ بَعْدِهِمْ خَلْفٌ أَضَاعُوا۟ ٱلصَّلَوٰةَ وَٱتَّبَعُوا۟ ٱلشَّهَوَٰتِ ۖ فَسَوْفَ يَلْقَوْنَ غَيًّا

But after them there followed a posterity who missed prayers and followed after lusts soon, then, will they face Destruction,-

43:60
وَلَوْ نَشَآءُ لَجَعَلْنَا مِنكُم مَّلَـٰٓئِكَةً فِى ٱلْأَرْضِ يَخْلُفُونَ

And if it were Our Will, We could make angels from amongst you, succeeding each other on the earth.

Occurrences of this form in the Qur’ān, not Lane’s choice of verse. They show the word in use; they do not say which sense above applies. Where more occur than are shown, the shortest āyāt are chosen.

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, aor. خَلُفَ , inf. n. خَلْفٌ , He came after, followed, succeeded, or remained after, another, or another that had perished or died. (TA.) Hence, in the Kur [vii. 168 and xix. 60], فَخَلَفَ مِنْ بَعْدِهِمْ خَلْفٌ (TA) And there hath succeeded them, or come after them, [a posterity, or] an evil posterity. (Bd in xix. 60.) And خَلَفَهُ He came after him, (S, A in art. دبر , Mgh, Msb, TA,) or behind him, (A ubi suprà, Mgh,) or following him nearly; (A ubi suprà;) inf. n. as above, (Mgh, TA,) and خِلْفَةٌ also: (Mgh:) or he remained after him: (K:) and جَآءَ خِلَافَهُ likewise signifies [the same as جآء خَلْفَهُ ; an inf. n. of خَالَفَ being thus used as an adv. n.; i. e.] he came after him. (TA.) You say also, خَلَفَ اللَّيْلُ النَّهَارَ , inf. n. خَلْفٌ and خِلْفَةٌ , The night followed, or came after, the day. (MA.) [Hence,] خَلَفْتُهُ , [aor. as above,] inf. n. خَلْفٌ , [perhaps a mistranscription for خَلَفَ ,] I was, after him, a substitute for him: (TA:) [I supplied his place: and I superseded him.] And خَلَفَهُ , (aor. as above, TA,) inf. n. خِلَافَةٌ (S, Mgh, Msb, K, TA) and خَلَفٌ (TA) and خِلِّيقَى , (S, * K, * TA,) which last is an inf. n. of the intensive kind, (Sgh, MF, TA,) He was, or became, his خَلِيفَة [i. e. successor, or vice-agent, &c.], (S, Mgh, Msb, K,) or his substitute; (TA;) فِى قَوْمِهِ [among, or in respect of, his people], (S, TA,) and أَهْلِهِ [his family]; relating to good and to evil; wherefore one says, أَوْصَى لَهُ بِالخِلَافَةِ [he charged him by his will with the being his successor, or vice-agent, &c.]; (TA;) or عَلَى أَهْلِهِ وَمَالِهِ [over his family and his property]: (Msb:) and اختفلهُ signifies the same; (Lh, Ibn-'Abbád, K;) he was, or became, his خَلِيفَة (Ibn-'Abbád, TA) after him. (Ibn-'Abbád, TA.) And خَلَفَ فُلَانًا [alone] He was, or became, the خَلِيفَةٌ of such a one among, or in respect of, his family (K, TA) and his children. (TA.) And خَلَفَهُ رَبُّهُ فِى أَهْلِهِ (K, TA) and وَلَدِهِ , (TA,) inf. n. خِلَافَةٌ , (K,) His Lord was [for him] a خَلِيفَة [or supplier of his place] to his family (K, TA) and his children. (TA. [In the CK, اخلف is made to signify the same; but this is in consequence of an omission.]) And one says, خَلَفَ ٱللّٰهُ عَلَيْكَ May God be to to thee a خَلِيفَة [or supplier of the place] (S, Msb, K) of thy father; (S, Msb,) or of the one whom thou hast lost: (S, Msb, K:) thus one says to one who has lost by death his father (S, Msb, K) or mother (K) or paternal uncle (S, Msb) or any other who cannot be replaced: (Msb, K:) and خَلَفَ ٱللّٰهُ عَلَيْكَ خَيْرًا , (K,) or بِخَيْرٍ , (AZ, Msb, K,) or both, (L,) and خَلَفَ ٱللّٰهُ لَكَ بِخَيْرٍ , (AZ, Msb,) and أَخْلَفَ ٱللّٰهُ عَلَيْكَ خَيْرًا and لَكَ خَيْرًا : (K: [in which it is implied that these phrases mean May God supply to thee well the place of him whom thou hast lost: but it is implied in the Msb that the two of them there mentioned mean May God restore to thee good in the place of that which has gone from thee: and it appears from what here follows that all of these phrases have the latter meaning, whether or not they have the former meaning also:]) to him who has lost property or a child or a thing [of any other kind] of which the replacement may be asked, (S,) or to him of whom that which may be replaced has perished, or died, (K,) one says, أَخْلَفَ ٱللّٰهُ عَلَيْكَ (S, Msb, K) May God restore to thee the like of that which has gone from thee, (S, Msb,) or may God restore to thee what has gone from thee; (K in a later part of the art.;) and اخلف اللّٰه لَكَ ; and خَلَفَ اللّٰه لك : or خَلَفَ اللّٰه عَلَيْكَ is allowable in relation to property and the like; and يَخْلَفُ , like يَمْنَعُ is allowable as its aor., though extr., (K,) as it has no faucial letter to occasion the fet-h: (TA:) and one says also, خَلَفَ ٱللّٰهُ لَكَ بِخَيْرٍ meaning May God give thee good in the place of that which has gone from thee; (TA;) and اخلف عَلَيْكَ خَيْرًا , (Msb, TA,) meaning the same; (TA;) and [so] اخلف لَكَ خَيْرًا and بِخَيْرٍ : and اخلف ٱللّٰهُ عَلَيْكَ مَالَكَ and لَكَ مَالَكَ [May God restore, or replace, to thee thy property]. (Msb.) خَلَفَ أَبَاهُ , (K,) aor. خَلُفَ (TA,) means He became behind his father; (K;) and if so, its inf. n. is خَلْفٌ : (TA:) or it means he became in the place of his father; (K;) and if so, its inf. n. is خَلَفٌ : (TA:) and خَلَفَ مَكَانَ أَبِيهِ , inf. n. خِلَافَةٌ (K) and خَلَفٌ , (TA,) he became in the place of his father, exclusively of every other. (K.) You say also, خَلَفَتِ الفَاكِهَةِ بَعْضُهَا بَعْضًا , (JK, K,) inf. n. خَلْفٌ , (JK, TA,) or خَلَفٌ , (TA, [the former being there altered to the latter (which is the more probably correct), or the latter to the former,]) and خِلْفَةٌ , (JK, TA,) The fruit replaced other fruit; or became substituted for other fruit. (JK, * K,* TA. [In the CK, صَارَ خَلْفًا is erroneously put for صَارَتْ خَلَفًا .]) And خَلَفَ فُلَانٌ عَلَى فُلَانَةَ , inf. n. خِلَافَةٌ , [like عَقَبَ عَلَيْهَا ,] Such a man took as his wife such a woman after another husband [and thus supplied his place]. (Z, TA.) خَلَفَ ُلَانًا , (aor. خَلُفَ , TA,) He took, or seized, such a one from behind him; (JK, * K;) as also اختلفهُ . (TA.) And hence, (TA,) خَلَفَ لَهُ بِالسَّيْفِ (JK, TA) He came to him from behind him, and smote his neck, or struck off his head, with the sword. (TA.) خَلَفَ فُلَانٌ بِعَقِبِى [is explained as meaning] Such a one stayed, or abode, after me. (Msb in art. عقب ) [But] خَلَفَ بِعَقَبِ فُلَانٍ is said by some to mean خَالَفَهُ إِلَى أَهْلِهِ [q. v.]: accord. to As, however, it means He parted with such a one on the condition of doing a certain thing, and then came behind him [or behind his back] and did another thing after parting with him: and Az says that this is a more correct explanation than the former one. (TA.) [Hence, app.,] one says also, إِنَّ ٱمْرَأَةَ فُلَانٍ تَخْلُفُ زَوْجَهَا بِالنِّزَاعِ إِلَى غَيْرِهِ إِذَا غَابَ عَنْهَا [Verily the wife of such a one is unfaithful to her husband by yearning towards another when he is absent from her: or deceives her husband behind his back by yearning towards another; for it is implied, by an ex. given, that اذا غاب عنها is added by way of explanation]. (TA.) خَلَفَهُ also signifies He spoke of him, or mentioned him, [behind his back, or] when he was not present: so in the phrase, خَلَفَهُ بِخَيْرٍ or بِشَرٍّ [He spoke of him behind his back well or ill]. (TA.) And one says, يَخْلُفُ النَّاسَ مِنْ وَرَائِهِمْ [meaning He defames men behind their backs]: the action signified hereby is like غِيبَةٌ , and may be [by making signs] with the side of the mouth, and with the eye, and with the head. (TA in art. همز .) خَلَفَ عَنْ أَصْحَابِهِ , (K, TA,) aor. خَلُفَ , He remained behind, or after, his companions; did not go forth with them; as also قَعَدَ خِلَافَ أَصْحَابِهِ [similar to a phrase mentioned near the beginning of this art.]; (TA;) i. q. تخلّف ; (K in explanation of the former phrase;) which is syn. with تَأَخَّرَ ; (S, K;) as in the phrase تخلّف عَنِّى [which means He remained behind me, or after me]; (S;) [for] تخلّف عَنْهُ means بَقِىَ خَلْفَهُ ; (Mgh;) and [in like manner] you say, تخلّف عَنِ لاقَوْمِ He remained behind, or after, the people, or party, not going with them; [he held back, or hung back, from them;] and قَعَدْتُ خِلَافَهُ [i. e. I remained] behind him, or after him; (Msb;) and خالف عَنَّا He remained behind us, or after us; syn. تخلّف . (TA, from a trad.) It is said in the Kur [xvii. 78], وَ إِذَا لَا يَلْبَثُونَ خِلَافَكَ إِلَّا قَلِيلًا , i. e. [But in that case they should not have remained] after thee [save a little while]: (JK, TA: *) so accord. to one reading [instead of خَلْفَكَ , which means the same]. (TA.) And in like manner, فَرِحَ المُخَلَّفُونَ بِمَقْعَدِهِمْ خِلَافَ رَسُولِ ٱللّٰهِ , in the Kur [ix. 82], means [Those who were left behind rejoiced in their remaining] behind the Apostle of God: (S, TA:) or the meaning here is, مُخَالَفَةَ رسول اللّٰه [i. e. in disagreement with the Apostle of God]: (JK, S:) thus says Lh; but IB disagrees with him; saying that خلاف here means بَعْدَ ; and cites six exs. in which it has this meaning, from poets. (TA.) [Hence,] خَلَفَ فُلَانٌ عَنْ كُلِّ خَيْرٍ [Such a one was, or became, kept back from all good; i. e.,] did not prosper, or was not successful. (TA. [It is there added, that it is explained in the A as tropical, and as meaning تَغَيَّرَ وَفَسَدَ : but this is perhaps a mistake, occasioned by the accidental omission of وَخَلَفَ اللَّبَنُ or the like, of which this is a correct explanation: or the phrase thus explained in the TA, as from the A, may correctly mean He became altered for the worse, and corrupt; agreeably with other explanations of the verb below.]) خَلَفَ , aor. خَلُفَ , also signifies He (a man) retired, withdrew, or went away or apart. (JK.) And خَلَفَتْ نَفْسَهُ عَنِ الطَّعَامِ , aor. خَلُفَ , inf. n. خُلُوفٌ , His soul turned away from, avoided, or shunned, the food, in consequence of disease. (JK, TA.) And He fled. (Ham p. 411.) And He (a man, Sgh) ascended a mountain. (Sgh, K.) See also 2, first sentence. خَلَفَ , (S, Msb, K, &c.,) aor. خُلُوفٌ , (Lh, Msb, TA, and Ham p. 679,) [inf. n. خُلُوفٌ ,] said of the taste of water, It was, or became, different from, or contrary to, what it was thought to be: and [hence,] it was, or became, altered [for the worse]: (Ham ubi suprà:) [and] said of milk, (S, K,) and of food, (Lh, S, Msb, K,) and the like, (Lh, TA,) and some say خَلُفَ , (TA,) aor. خَلُفَ , inf. n. خُلُوفٌ , (Lh, TA,) of both verbs, (TA,) it was, or became, altered [for the worse] (Lh, S, Msb, K) in taste, or in odour; (S, Msb, K;) as also اخلف : or, said of milk, the first signifies it became bad from being long kept; or, as in the A, what was good thereof became mixed ( خُلِفَ , i. e. خُلِطَ ,) with other milk: and اخلف , said of milk, signifies also it was, or became, sour: (TA:) and the first, said of [the beverage called] نَبِيذ , it became bad. (K.) Also, inf. n. خُلُوفٌ (S, Mgh, Msb, K) and خُلُوفَةٌ (K) and خِلْفَةٌ , (L, TA,) said of the mouth (S, Mgh, Msb, K) of a person fasting, (S, Msb, K,) It was, or became, altered [for the worse] in odour; (S, Mgh, Msb, K;) as also اخلف . (S, Msb, K.) It is said in a trad. that the خُلُوف of the mouth of one who is fasting is sweeter in the estimation of God than the odour of musk: or, accord. to some of the lawyers and of the relaters of traditions, خَلُوف ; but [SM says,] I think this to be a mistake, as several affirm it to be, while others say that it is of a bad dial. : accord. to one reading, it is خِلْفَة . (TA.) [Hence,] خَلَفَ عَنْ خُلُقِ أَبِيهِ , (K,) aor. خَلُفَ , inf. n. خُلُوفٌ , (TA,) He was, or became, altered [for the worse] from the natural disposition of his father. (K, TA.) And خَلَفَ , (ISk, S, K,) inf. n. خَلْفٌ [or خُلُوفٌ ]; or خَلْفَ , aor. خَلُفَ , inf. n. خَلَافَةٌ and خُلُوفٌ ; (TA;) He (a man) was, or became, bad, or corrupt. (ISk, S, K, TA.) And خَلَفَ , (K) inf. n. خَلَافَةٌ (IAth, K) and خُلُوفٌ , (K,) He (a man) was, or became, stupid, or foolish; or one who had little, or no, intellect or understanding: (K, * TA:) or unprofitable: or a frequent promise-breaker: (IAth:) or خَلَفَ and اخلف , said of a slave, he was, or became, idiotic, deficient in intellect, or bereft of his intellect. (JK.) خَلَفَ , (K,) inf. n. خَلْفٌ ; (S, * K, * TA;) and اخلف , and استخلف ; (S, K;) He drew water, (S, K, TA,) لِأَهْلِهِ for his family: [app. because he who does so leaves his family behind him: see 2, first sentence:] (K, TA:) [or] استخلف , said of a man, signifies اِسْتَعْذَبَ المَآء [app. as meaning he sought, or drew, or brought, sweet water: see art. عذب ]: and, accord. to IAar, you say, أَخْلَفْتُ القَوْمَ , meaning properly I carried sweet water to the people, or party, when they were in the [season, or herbage, called] رَبِيع and without sweet water, or when they were by salt water: إِخْلَافٌ [as meaning the carrying, or drawing, of water,] being [properly] only in the ربيع : in other cases, metaphorically applied. (TA.) El-Hoteíäh says, 1 [To, or for, downy ones, like the young ones of the katà, whose procurer of water has been slow in coming to those lacking the power of spreading their wings for flight, red in their crops]: he means مِخْلِفُهَا [or خَالِفُهَا ], and has put in the place of this the inf. n.: and by حواصله , accord. to Ks, he means حَوَاصِلُ مَا ذَكْرْنَا [the crops of what we have mentioned]: but Fr says that the ه relates to the زغب , exclusively of the عاجزات , which [latter] has the sign of the pl. ; for every pl. that has the form of a sing. may be imagined to be a sing., as in the saying of the poet, 2 [meaning “ like the young birds of which the crops have been plucked ”]; for الفراخ has not the sign of the pl., but has the form of a sing., like الكِتَاب and الحِجَاب : another says, [but this is very far-fetched,] that the ه relates to النهض , which [sometimes] means a place in the shoulderblade of the camel; and that the poet has used it metaphorically as belonging to the قطا . (S.) لِزُغْبٍ كَأَوْلَادِ القَطَا رَاثَ خَلْفُهَا | عَلَى عَاجِزَاتِ النَّهْضِ حُمْرٍ حَوَاصِلُهْ مِثْلُ الفِرَاخِ نُتِفَتْ حَوَاصِلُهْ خَلَفَ الثَّوْبَ , (S,) or القَمِيصَ , aor. خَلُفَ , (Msb, K,) inf. n. خَلْفٌ (Kr, TA) and خُلْفَةٌ , in some copies of the K خَلْفَةٌ , [so in my MS. copy of the K, and so in the TK,] and [in some] خُلَفٌ also, but these require consideration, (TA,) He took out from the garment, or shirt, the part that was worn out, (S, Msb, K,) that is, the middle part, which was worn out, (S, Msb,) and then sewed the [cut] edges together. (S, Msb, K.) And اخلف الثَّوْبَ signifies the same as خَلَفَهُ , i. e. He repaired the garment [app. in any manner, or, as is implied in the S and TA, by substituting one piece for another]. (S, K, TA.) The saying, in a trad. of Hamneh, فَإِذَا خَلَفَتْ ذٰلِكَ فَلْتَغْتَسِلْ , meaning And when she has discriminated that period of days and nights during which she has been حَائِض , [she shall perform a complete ablution of herself,] is from خَلَفَ القَمِيص signifying as explained above. (Msb.) خَلَفَ signifies also He mixed [a thing with another thing; as, for instance, (see خُلِفَ in a passage above,) milk with other milk]: and he mixed saffron, and medicine, with water. (TA.) خَلَفَ بَيْتَهُ He put to, or made for, his tent, a pole, (K, TA,) termed a خَالِفَة , (TA,) in the hinder part thereof. (K TA.) خَلِفَ , aor. خَلَفَ , (K,) inf. n. خَلَفٌ , (S, K,) He (a camel) inclined towards one side. (S, K.) خَلَفٌ is also an inf. n. (of خَلِفَ , said of a man, TK) signifying The being أَخْلَف as meaning contrarious, hard in disposition, as though going with a leaning towards one side: and the being left-handed: and the being أَحْوَل [or squint-eyed]. (K.) خَلِفَتْ , aor. خَلَفَ , (Msb, K,) inf. n. خَلَفٌ , (Msb, TA,) She (a camel) was, or became, pregnant. (Msb, K.)
Form 2خلّفهُ3 senses · 2 main
maṣdarتَخْلِيفٌ

Core sense — he left him behind him; he appointed him his successorgenerated

2.1he left him behind him—خلّفهُ وَرَآءَهُ

Said of a man..

he made him be behind him—خَلَفَهُ

This means the same; or: he made him be behind him. Also اخلفهُ and اختلفهُ, whence the saying فِى الاِتِبَاعِ حَتَّى ٱخْتَلَفْتُهُ أَلْحَحْتُ عَلَى فُلَانٍ [I pressed upon such a one in following] until I made him be behind me.

he went before them, and left them behind him—خَلَّفَهُمْ

Maṣdar as above.

they left their loads and baggage behind their backs—خلّفوا أَثْقالَهُم

When they went away to draw water. Maṣdar as above.

2.1.1he made him, or appointed him, his خَلِيفَة—خلّفهُ

That is, his successor, or vice-agent, and the like; also استخلفهُ.

He will assuredly make them successors in the earth, as He made successors of those before them—لَيَسْتَخِلَفَنَّهُمْ فِى ٱلْأَرْضِ كَمَا ٱسْتَخْلَفَ ٱلَّذِينَ مِنْ قَبْلِهِمْ

Qur'ān 24:54.

2.2he bound one of the teats of his she-camel with the thing called صِرَار—خلّف بِنَاقَتِهِ

So that her young one might not suck it. Maṣdar as above; from Yaakoob.

Qur’ānic occurrences Form 2
9:118
وَعَلَى ٱلثَّلَـٰثَةِ ٱلَّذِينَ خُلِّفُوا۟ حَتَّىٰٓ إِذَا ضَاقَتْ عَلَيْهِمُ ٱلْأَرْضُ بِمَا رَحُبَتْ وَضَاقَتْ عَلَيْهِمْ أَنفُسُهُمْ وَظَنُّوٓا۟ أَن لَّا مَلْجَأَ مِنَ ٱللَّهِ إِلَّآ إِلَيْهِ ثُمَّ تَابَ عَلَيْهِمْ لِيَتُوبُوٓا۟ ۚ إِنَّ ٱللَّهَ هُوَ ٱلتَّوَّابُ ٱلرَّحِيمُ

(He turned in mercy also) to the three who were left behind; (they felt guilty) to such a degree that the earth seemed constrained to them, for all its spaciousness, and their (very) souls seemed straitened to them,- and they perceived that there is no fleeing from Allah (and no refuge) but to Himself. Then He turned to them, that they might repent: for Allah is Oft-Returning, Most Merciful.

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, (Msb,) and خلّفهُ وَرَآءَهُ , (S, TA,) inf. n. تَخْلِيفٌ , (TA,) He left him behind him; (Msb;) namely, a man: (S, Msb, TA:) and خَلَفَهُ [signifies the same: or] he made him to be behind him; as also اخلفهُ [q.v.], and اختلفهُ : (TA:) [whence the saying,] فِى الاِتِبَاعِ حَتَّى ٱخْتَلَفْتُهُ أَلْحَحْتُ عَلَى فُلَانٍ i. e. [I pressed upon such a one in following] until I made him to be behind me. (ISk, TA.) You say also, خَلَّفَهُمْ , inf. n. as above, meaning He was, or became, or went, before them; and left them behind him. (TA.) And خلّفوا أَثْقالَهُم , inf. n. as above, They left their loads, or baggage &c., behind their backs; (O, K;) when they went away to draw water. (TA.) [Hence,] خلّفهُ He made him, or appointed him, his خَلِيفَة [i. e. successor, or vice-agent, &c.]; (K;) and so استخلفهُ . (S, Msb, K.) So in the Kur [xxiv. 54], لَيَسْتَخِلَفَنَّهُمْ فِى ٱلْأَرْضِ كَمَا ٱسْتَخْلَفَ ٱلَّذِينَ مِنْ قَبْلِهِمْ [That He will assuredly make them to be successors in the earth, like as He made to be successors those who were before them]. (TA.) خلّف بِنَاقَتِهِ , (S, K,) inf. n. as above, (S,) He bound one of the teats of his she-camel with the thing termed صِرَار [in order that her young one might not suck it]: (S, K:) from Yaakoob. (S.)
Form 3خالفهُ3 senses · 1 main
maṣdarخِلَافٌ

Core sense — he disagreed with him, he differed from him, he opposed himgenerated

3.1you act with the contrariness of the hyena towards the rider—إِنَّمَا أَنْتَ خِلَافَ الضَّبُعِ الرَّاكِبَ

He, or it, disagreed with, differed from, or dissented from him; the opposite of وَافَقَهُ فِى كَذَا [in, or in respect of, such a thing]. And he, or it, was contrary, opposed, or repugnant to him; he acted in opposition to him; he contradicted him. Maṣdar خِلَافٌ and مُخَالَفَةٌ. See the article نقض.

A proverb; that is, تُخَالِفُ خِلَافَ الضَّبُعِ. The hyena attacks a man on foot, but flees when it sees the rider.

he turned away from such a thing when I went to it—خَالَفَنِى عَنْ كَذَا

See also the end of the first paragraph of the article بهت.

he went to such a thing when I turned away from it—خالفنى إِلَى كَذَا

Or خالفهُ إِلَى الشَّىْءِ means: he disobeyed him by going to the thing; or he went to the thing after he had been forbidden it.

he comes to the wife of such a one when the husband is away from her—هُوَ يُخَالِفُ إِلَى ٱمْرَأَةِ فُلَانٍ

Or إِلَى فُلَانَةَ; the K erroneously has هو يخالف فُلَانَةَ. Also said of coming to such a woman when her husband is away from her.

he came to another man's wife in the husband's absence—خالفهُ إِلَى أَهْلِهِ
he watched for him, and, when he was away from his family, went in to them—خالفهُ إِلَيْهِمْ
such a one watched for his companion, and, when he was away, came and went in to his family—اخلف فُلَانٌ صَاحِبَهُ
he watched for his companion, and, when he was away, went in to his wife—خالف صَاحِبَهُ
he came to a party, or company of men, from behind them—خالف إِلَى قَوْمٍ

See form 1, in the earlier half of that paragraph.

So AZ.

So says IDrd, on the authority of AZ.

Or: he pretended to them the contrary of what he had in his mind, and took them unawares.

Aboo-Dhu-eyb says, describing a collector of wild honey: [When the bees sting him,] he fears not nor minds their stinging, [but comes, during their absence, to the hiving-place of bees occupied in gathering honey]

shāhid
إِذَا لَسَعَتْهُ النَّحْلُ لَمْ يَرْجُ لَسْعَهَاوَخَالَفَهَا فِى بَيْتِ نُوبٍ عَوَاسِلِ

Only the first hemistich is cited in the S here, and in the article رجو; see also the article رجو. The meaning is that he comes to their honey — in the TA الدَّبْرُ “the swarm of bees” is put in place of النحل — and takes it while they are feeding. Or, as AA says, he comes behind them to the honey while they are away. AO explains it by خَالَفَهَا إِلَى مَوْضِعٍ آخَرَ, which means he keeps with them to another place, synonymous with لَازَمَهَا; also حَالَفَهَا, with the unpointed ح, and some read the verse so, but that reading is said to be a mistake. See the article حلف.

3.1.1

For جَآءَ خِلَافَهُ, see form 1, near the beginning of that paragraph; and see five other examples in the middle portion of the same paragraph.

3.1.2he put one of his legs forward and the other backward—خالف بَيْنَ رِجْلَيْهِ

المُخَالَفَةُ بَيْنَ الرِّجْلَيْنِ [the alternate shifting of the legs to and fro] is used, by metonymy, for dancing.

he set the two things contrariwise, on contrary sides, or in contrary directions—خالف بَيْنَ الشَّيْئَيْنِ
or that their hands and their feet shall be cut off on contrary sides—أَوْ تُقَطَّعَ أَيْدِيهِمْ وَأَرْجُلُهُمْ مِنْ خِلَافٍ
a horse having a whiteness in his right fore leg and his left hind leg, or the reverse—فَرَسٌ بِهِ شِكَالٌ مِنْ خِلَافٍ

Qur'ān 5:37; it means that their right hands and left feet shall be cut off. See also similar examples in the Qur'ān 7:121, 20:74, and 26:49.

Also ذُو خَدَمَتَانِ مِنْ خِلَافٍ.

a horse having a whiteness [or rather a ring of white a little above the hoof] in his fore leg and another in his left fore leg—لَهُ خَدَمَتَانِ مِنْ خِلَافٍ

So some say; “his left fore leg” is probably a copyist's error for his left hind leg.

Qur’ān 5:33 matched to Lane’s own quotation of it Lane cites “Kur v. 37”
Qur’ān 7:123 approximate — somewhere between 7:88 and 7:139 Lane cites “Kur vii. 121”
Qur’ān 5:33 Lane quotes this verse
إِنَّمَا جَزَٰٓؤُا۟ ٱلَّذِينَ يُحَارِبُونَ ٱللَّهَ وَرَسُولَهُۥ وَيَسْعَوْنَ فِى ٱلْأَرْضِ فَسَادًا أَن يُقَتَّلُوٓا۟ أَوْ يُصَلَّبُوٓا۟ أَوْ تُقَطَّعَ أَيْدِيهِمْ وَأَرْجُلُهُم مِّنْ خِلَـٰفٍ أَوْ يُنفَوْا۟ مِنَ ٱلْأَرْضِ ۚ ذَٰلِكَ لَهُمْ خِزْىٌ فِى ٱلدُّنْيَا ۖ وَلَهُمْ فِى ٱلْـَٔاخِرَةِ عَذَابٌ عَظِيمٌ

The punishment of those who wage war against Allah and His Messenger, and strive with might and main for mischief through the land is: execution, or crucifixion, or the cutting off of hands and feet from opposite sides, or exile from the land: that is their disgrace in this world, and a heavy punishment is theirs in the Hereafter;Abdullah Yusuf Ali, The Holy Qur’ān (1934)

Qur’ānic occurrences Form 3
11:88
قَالَ يَـٰقَوْمِ أَرَءَيْتُمْ إِن كُنتُ عَلَىٰ بَيِّنَةٍ مِّن رَّبِّى وَرَزَقَنِى مِنْهُ رِزْقًا حَسَنًا ۚ وَمَآ أُرِيدُ أَنْ أُخَالِفَكُمْ إِلَىٰ مَآ أَنْهَىٰكُمْ عَنْهُ ۚ إِنْ أُرِيدُ إِلَّا ٱلْإِصْلَـٰحَ مَا ٱسْتَطَعْتُ ۚ وَمَا تَوْفِيقِىٓ إِلَّا بِٱللَّهِ ۚ عَلَيْهِ تَوَكَّلْتُ وَإِلَيْهِ أُنِيبُ

He said: "O my people! see ye whether I have a Clear (Sign) from my Lord, and He hath given me sustenance (pure and) good as from Himself? I wish not, in opposition to you, to do that which I forbid you to do. I only desire (your) betterment to the best of my power; and my success (in my task) can only come from Allah. In Him I trust, and unto Him I look.

24:63
لَّا تَجْعَلُوا۟ دُعَآءَ ٱلرَّسُولِ بَيْنَكُمْ كَدُعَآءِ بَعْضِكُم بَعْضًا ۚ قَدْ يَعْلَمُ ٱللَّهُ ٱلَّذِينَ يَتَسَلَّلُونَ مِنكُمْ لِوَاذًا ۚ فَلْيَحْذَرِ ٱلَّذِينَ يُخَالِفُونَ عَنْ أَمْرِهِۦٓ أَن تُصِيبَهُمْ فِتْنَةٌ أَوْ يُصِيبَهُمْ عَذَابٌ أَلِيمٌ

Deem not the summons of the Messenger among yourselves like the summons of one of you to another: Allah doth know those of you who slip away under shelter of some excuse: then let those beware who withstand the Messenger's order, lest some trial befall them, or a grievous penalty be inflicted on them.

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, (Mgh, Msb, TA,) inf. n. خِلَافٌ (S, Mgh, Msb, K, TA) and مُخَالَفَةٌ , (S, Msb, K, TA,) He [or it] disagreed with, or differed from, him [or it]; or he dissented from him; (Mgh, Msb;) contr. of وَافَقَهُ ; فِى كَذَا [in, or in respect of, such a thing]: (Mgh:) and he, or it, was contrary, opposed, or repugnant, to him, or it: (TA:) [and he acted contrarily, contrariously, adversely, or in opposition, to him, or it; he, or it, contravened, or opposed, him, or it:] and he [or it] contradicted him [or it]. (M in art. نقض .) It is said in a prov., إِنَّمَا أَنْتَ خِلَافَ الضَّبُعِ الرَّاكِبَ , i. e. تُخَالِفُ خِلَافَ الضَّبُعِ [Verily thou art one who acts with the contrariousness of the hyena towards the rider]: for the hyena [attacks a man on foot, but], when it sees the rider, flees from him. (IAar, TA.) You say also, خَالَفَنِى عَنْ كَذَا He turned away from such a thing [in opposition to me, or] when I betook myself to it: [see also the last sentence but one of the first paragraph of art. بهت :] and خالفنى إِلَى كَذَا He betook himself to such a thing [in opposition to me, or] when I turned away from it: (Mgh:) or خالفهُ إِلَى الشَّىْءِ means he disobeyed him by betaking himself to the thing; or betook himself to the thing after he had forbidden him it. (TA.) And hence, (Mgh,) هُوَ يُخَالِفُ إِلَى ٱمْرَأَةِ فُلَانٍ , (S, Mgh, *) or إِلَى فُلَانَةَ , (O, L, TA,) in the K erroneously, هو يخالف فُلَانَةَ , (TA,) He comes to the wife of such a one when he [the latter] is absent from her, (S,) or to such a woman when her husband is absent from her: (Mgh, * O, L, K, TA:) and خالفهُ إِلَى أَهْلِهِ [he came to his (another's) wife in his (the husband's) absence]: see 1, in the former half of the paragraph. (Az, TA.) And خالفهُ إِلَيْهِمْ He watched to see him, and, when he was absent from them, namely, his family, he went in to them: (Jm, O, TA:) and, accord. to AZ, اخلف فُلَانٌ صَاحِبَهُ Such a one watched to see his companion, and, when he was absent, he came, and went in to him [or rather to his wife or to his family]: (TA:) [or] خالف صَاحِبَهُ he watched to see his companion, and, when he was absent, went in to his wife: (K, and the like is said in the JK:) thus says IDrd, on the authority of AZ. (TA.) And خالف إِلَى قَوْمٍ He came to a party, or company of men, from behind them [or behind their backs]: or he feigned to them the contrary of that which he conceived in his mind, and took them unawares. (TA.) Aboo-Dhu-eyb says, [describing a collector of wild honey,] 1 (S in the present art., in which only the former hemistich is cited, and in art. رجو ,) i. e. [When the bees sting him,] he fears not nor minds [their stinging], (S in art. رجو ) [but comes, during their absence, to the hiving-place of bees occupied in gathering honey:] meaning, he comes to their honey, (S, TA, [in the latter of which, in the place of النحل , is put الدَّبْرُ “ the swarm of bees, ”]) and takes it, (TA,) while they are feeding; (S, TA;) or, as AA says, he comes behind them to the honey while they are absent: AO explains it by خَالَفَهَا إِلَى مَوْضِعٍ آخَرَ which [he says] means he keeps with them [to another place]; syn. لَازَمَهَا ; [and thus this phrase (which is strangely misinterpreted in the TK and in Freytag's Lexicon) is explained in the K, but without any reference to the verse;] as also حَالَفَهَا , with the unpointed ح : (TA:) and some read the verse thus; but this reading is said to be a mistake. (TA in art. حلف .) إِذَا لَسَعَتْهُ النَّحْلُ لَمْ يَرْجُ لَسْعَهَا | وَخَالَفَهَا فِى بَيْتِ نُوبٍ عَوَاسِلِ جَآءَ خِلَافَهُ : see 1, near the beginning of the paragraph. And see also five other exs. in the middle portion of the same paragraph. خالف بَيْنَ رِجْلَيْهِ He put one of his legs forward and the other backward: and [hence,] المُخَالَفَةُ بَيْنَ الرِّجْلَيْنِ [as signifying the alternate shifting of the legs to and fro] is metonymically used as meaning the act of dancing. (Har p. 108.) [And خالف بَيْنَ الشَّيْئَيْنِ He put, or placed, the two things contrariwise; or on contrary sides; or in contrary directions. Hence,] أَوْ تُقَطَّعَ أَيْدِيهِمْ وَأَرْجُلُهُمْ مِنْ خِلَافٍ , in the Kur v. 37, [Or that their hands and their feet shall be cut off on contrary sides,] means that their right hands and left feet shall be cut off. (Bd, Jel. [See also similar exs. in the Kur vii. 121 and xx. 74 and xxvi. 49.]) [Hence also,] فَرَسٌ بِهِ شِكَالٌ مِنْ خِلَافٍ , (JK,) or ذُو خَدَمَتَانِ مِنْ خِلَافٍ , (TA,) A horse having a whiteness in his right fore leg and his left hind leg [or the reverse]: (JK, TA:) and some say, لَهُ خَدَمَتَانِ مِنْ خِلَافٍ when he has a whiteness [or rather a ring of white a little above the hoof] in his fore leg [or right fore leg] and another in his left fore leg [probably a mistake of a copyist for his left hind leg]. (TA.)
Form 4اخلفهُ15 senses · 3 main
maṣdarإِخْلَافٌ

Core sense — he broke his promise; he put him behind him; he replaced it for himgenerated

4.1he put his hand behind him—اخلف يَدَهُ
he put his hand back to his sword to draw it, the sword being hung behind him—اخلف بِيَدِهِ إِلَى السَّيْفِ

See form 2, first sentence. Also: he put him, turned him, or made him go back or stand back, behind him.

Or simply اخلف, used with a word left out.

he hung the sword behind him, or kept it hung behind him—اخلف السَّيْفَ
he shifted the camel's hind girth back, putting it next to his testicles—اخلف عَنِ البَعِيرِ

Said in a tradition of a man on the day of Bedr.

For اخلف عَنْهُ الحَقَبَ. Because it was hurting the sheath of his penis and causing a suppression of his urine; also اخلف البَعِيرَ. Or one says only أَخْلِفِ الحَقَبَ, meaning: move the hind girth away from the sheath of the penis.

he struck the beast on its hinder part with the whip—اخلف الدَّابَّةَ بِالسَّوْطِ
4.1.1he (a camel) exceeded in age the بازل, generally one that has entered its ninth year—اخلف البَازِلَ

As though he put the بازل behind him. Apparently also اخلف alone, with البَازِلَ understood; see مُخْلِفٌ.

El-Jaadee says: [Strong in the withers, hardy, a بازل that has exceeded in age by a year one who has just become a بازل, or that has himself just become a بازل]

shāhid
أَخْلَفَ البَازِلَ عَامًا أَوْ بَزَلْأَيِّدِ الكَاهِلِ جَلْدٍ بَازِلٍ

Some say that الإِخْلَافُ denotes the last of the ages that have words to signify them, with respect to all beasts.

4.1.2

For اخلف فُلَانٌ صَاحِبَهُ, see form 3, near the middle of that paragraph.

4.1.3figurative · مجازhe broke, or failed to perform, his promise, or the promise, to him—اخلفهُ مَا وَعَدَهُ

Or مَوْعِدَهُ, or وَعْدَهُ, or الوَعْدَ. Restricted to future time: الإِخْلَافُ is, with respect to the future, like الكَذِبُ with respect to the past. Or: making a promise and not fulfilling it. Some say it means seeking something wanted, or water, and not finding it.

when he promises, he does not fulfil his promise, and is not true to it—إِذَا وَعَدَ أَخْلَفَ
the stars broke their promise; they were attended with drought, not with rain—أَخْلَفَتِ النُّجُومُ

From a tradition.

A saying of the people in the Time of Ignorance; also اِخْتَلَفَتْ عَنْ أَنْوَائِهَا, for they used to believe and say that they were rained upon by such and such a نَوْء. See نَوْءٌ.

the fever, being tertian or quartan, did not come at its time, or turn—أَخْلَفَتِ الحُمَّى
she, having been covered by the stallion, did not become pregnant—أَخْلَفَتْ

Said of a she-camel. And: she proved not to be pregnant when she was thought to be pregnant. Said in like manner of a palm-tree: it bore nothing one year; and of a tree: it bore no fruit, or lost the fruit it had. The verb, said of trees, has also another meaning, given below.

4.1.4he acted according to his promise to him, he fulfilled his promise to him—اخلفهُ

El-Fárábee says the verb occurs in this sense, so that it bears two contrary meanings; but this is strange.

4.1.5

Also: he found him to be a breaker of his promise; or he found his promise to be broken, or unfulfilled.

4.1.6such a one replaced for himself, or for another, a thing that had gone from him with another thing—اخلف فُلَانٌ لِنَفْسِهِ

اخلف عَلَيْكَ and لَكَ, each with an object expressed or understood: see form 1, in six places in the earlier half of that paragraph.

Or لِغَيْرِهِ.

wear out your garment, and replace it with another, and praise the Clother, meaning God—أَبْلِ وَأَخْلِفْ وَٱحْمَدِ الكَاسِى
wear out your garment, and God will replace it with another; or, may God replace it—أَبْلِ وَيُخْلِفُ ٱللّٰهُ

Ibn-Mukbil says: [Then replace, and consume: wealth is but a loan: and devour it with time, which devours it]

shāhid
فَأَخْلِفْ وَأَتْلِفْ إِنَّمَا المَالُ عَارَةٌوَكُلْهُ مَعَ الدَّهْرِ الَّذِى هُوَ آكِلُهْ

. He means: gain a substitute for what you have consumed.

The Arabs say this to one who has put on a new garment.

See the article بلو.

4.1.7

See also اخلف الثَّوْبَ, near the end of the first paragraph.

4.1.8it put forth the خِلْفَة, the leaves that come out after the first leaves—اخلف

Said of a plant, or of herbage, in the season called صَيْف; and said in the same way of trees. Or اخلف الشَّجَرُ means: the trees put forth fruit after other fruit. And, said of fruit: it came out, some of it after other of it.

the land was affected by the cold of the latter part of the season called صَيْف—اخلفت الأَرْضُ

So that some of its trees become green.

4.1.9figurative · مجاز

Also, said of a bird: it put forth feathers after the first feathers; from the same verb said of a plant, or of herbage.

4.1.10figurative · مجاز — inferred

And, said of a boy: he nearly reached puberty.

4.1.11figurative · مجاز — inferred

And, said of a solid-hoofed beast: he completed a year after the قُرُوح [or finishing teething, or shedding the corner-nipper].

4.2it (medicine) weakened him by making him go often to the privy—اخلفهُ
4.2.1bringing the stallion to the she-camel again when she has not conceived at once—الإِخْلَافُ
4.3

See also form 1, in six places in the latter half of that paragraph.

Qur’ānic occurrences Form 4 5 shown of 14
3:9
رَبَّنَآ إِنَّكَ جَامِعُ ٱلنَّاسِ لِيَوْمٍ لَّا رَيْبَ فِيهِ ۚ إِنَّ ٱللَّهَ لَا يُخْلِفُ ٱلْمِيعَادَ

"Our Lord! Thou art He that will gather mankind Together against a day about which there is no doubt; for Allah never fails in His promise."

3:194
رَبَّنَا وَءَاتِنَا مَا وَعَدتَّنَا عَلَىٰ رُسُلِكَ وَلَا تُخْزِنَا يَوْمَ ٱلْقِيَـٰمَةِ ۗ إِنَّكَ لَا تُخْلِفُ ٱلْمِيعَادَ

"Our Lord! Grant us what Thou didst promise unto us through Thine messengers, and save us from shame on the Day of Judgment: For Thou never breakest Thy promise."

20:58
فَلَنَأْتِيَنَّكَ بِسِحْرٍ مِّثْلِهِۦ فَٱجْعَلْ بَيْنَنَا وَبَيْنَكَ مَوْعِدًا لَّا نُخْلِفُهُۥ نَحْنُ وَلَآ أَنتَ مَكَانًا سُوًى

"But we can surely produce magic to match thine! So make a tryst between us and thee, which we shall not fail to keep - neither we nor thou - in a place where both shall have even chances."

22:47
وَيَسْتَعْجِلُونَكَ بِٱلْعَذَابِ وَلَن يُخْلِفَ ٱللَّهُ وَعْدَهُۥ ۚ وَإِنَّ يَوْمًا عِندَ رَبِّكَ كَأَلْفِ سَنَةٍ مِّمَّا تَعُدُّونَ

Yet they ask thee to hasten on the Punishment! But Allah will not fail in His Promise. Verily a Day in the sight of thy Lord is like a thousand years of your reckoning.

30:6
وَعْدَ ٱللَّهِ ۖ لَا يُخْلِفُ ٱللَّهُ وَعْدَهُۥ وَلَـٰكِنَّ أَكْثَرَ ٱلنَّاسِ لَا يَعْلَمُونَ

(It is) the promise of Allah. Never does Allah depart from His promise: but most men understand not.

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: see 2, first sentence. Also He put him, turned him, or made him to go back or stand back, behind him. (K, TA.) And اخلف يَدَهُ He put his hand behind him. (Az, TA.) And also, (Fr, TA,) or اخلف بِيَدِهِ إِلَى السَّيْفِ , (JK,) or simply اخلف [used elliptically], (S, K,) He put [back] his hand to his sword, (Fr, S, K, TA,) in order to draw it, (JK, S, K, TA,) it being hung behind him. (Fr, * TA.) And اخلف السَّيْفَ [He hung the sword behind him; or kept it hung behind him]: said, in a trad., of a man on the day of Bedr. (TA.) And اخلف عَنِ البَعِيرِ [for اخلف عَنْهُ الحَقَبَ ] He shifted [backwards] the hind girth of the camel, putting it next to his testicles, on account of its hurting the sheath of his penis, and causing a suppression of his urine; (As, S, K;) as also اخلف البَعِيرَ : (TA:) or you say only, أَخْلِفِ الحَقَبَ , meaning remove thou the hind girth from the sheath of the penis. (Lh, TA.) And اخلف الدَّابَّةَ بِالسَّوْطِ He struck the beast on the hinder part with the whip. (JK.) اخلف البَازِلَ [He (a camel) exceeded in age the بازل , which is generally one that has entered his ninth year: as though he made the بازل to be behind him: and so, app., اخلف alone; البَازِلَ being understood: see مُخْلِفٌ ]. El-Jaadee says, 1 [Strong in the withers, hardy, a بازل ; that has exceeded in age him who has just become a بازل by a year, or that has himself just become a بازل ]. (S, TA.) Some say that الإِخْلَافُ is [a term denoting] the last of the ages [that have words to signify them] with respect to all beasts. (TA.) أَخْلَفَ البَازِلَ عَامًا أَوْ بَزَلْ | أَيِّدِ الكَاهِلِ جَلْدٍ بَازِلٍ اخلف فُلَانٌ صَاحِبَهُ : see 3, near the middle of the paragraph. اخلفهُ مَا وَعَدَهُ , (S,) or مَوْعِدَهُ , (Mgh,) or وَعْدَهُ , (Msb,) or الوَعْدَ , (K,) inf. n. إِخْلَافٌ , (Mgh,) He broke, (Mgh,) or failed to perform, (S, K,) his promise, or the promise, to him: (S, Mgh, K:) restricted to future time: (Msb:) الإِخْلَافُ is, in respect of the future, like الكَذِبُ in respect of the past: (S, K:) or the making a promise and not fulfilling it: (Lh, K:) and some say that it signifies one's seeking an object of want, or water, and not finding it. (TA.) It is said in a trad., إِذَا وَعَدَ أَخْلَفَ , i. e. When he promises, he does not fulfil his promise, and is not true [to it]. (TA.) [Hence,] أَخْلَفَتِ النُّجُومُ , i. e. [The stars broke their promise; meaning,] were attended with drought, not attended with rain: (S, K, TA:) a saying of the people in the Time of Ignorance: (S, TA:) and so اِخْتَلَفَتْ عَنْ أَنْوَائِهَا : for they used to believe and say that they were rained upon by such and such a نَوْء . (TA. [See نَوْءٌ .]) Hence also, أَخْلَفَتِ الحُمَّى The fever, being tertian or quartan, came not in its time, or turn. (Mgh.) And أَخْلَفَتْ said of a she-camel, She, having been covered by the stallion, did not become pregnant: (JK, TA:) and she proved to be not pregnant when thought to be pregnant. (JK.) And in like manner said of a palm-tree; (JK;) It bore not one year: and it (a tree) bore no fruit: or lost the fruit that it had. (L, TA. [The verb, said of trees, has also another meaning, which see below.]) اخلفهُ is also said, by El-Fárábee, to occur as meaning He acted according to his promise [or fulfilled his promise] to him; thus bearing two contr. significations: but this is strange. (MF.) Also He found him to be a breaker of his promise; (JK;) or he found his promise to be broken, or unfulfilled. (S, K.) اخلف عَلَيْكَ and لَكَ , each with an objective complement ( خَيْرًا or مَالَكَ ) expressed or understood: see 1, in six places, in the former half of the paragraph. You say also, اخلف فُلَانٌ لِنَفْسِهِ , (S, K,) or لِغَيْرِهِ , (TA,) Such a one replaced to himself, (S, K,) or to another, (TA,) a thing that had gone from him, with another thing. (S, K.) Ibn-Mukbil says, 1 [Then replace thou, and consume: wealth is but a loan: and devour it with time, which is a devourer thereof]: he means, gain a substitute for what thou hast consumed. (S, TA.) And the Arabs say to him who has put on a new garment, أَبْلِ وَأَخْلِفْ وَٱحْمَدِ الكَاسِى [Wear out thy garment, and replace it with another, and praise the Clother, meaning God]. (TA.) And أَبْلِ وَيُخْلِفُ ٱللّٰهُ [Wear out thy garment, and God will replace it with another; or, may God replace &c.]. (S in art. بلو ) فَأَخْلِفْ وَأَتْلِفْ إِنَّمَا المَالُ عَارَةٌ | وَكُلْهُ مَعَ الدَّهْرِ الَّذِى هُوَ آكِلُهْ See also اخلف الثَّوْبَ near the end of the first paragraph. اخلف said of a plant, or of herbage, It put forth the خِلْفَة , (S, Msb, K,) meaning leaves that come forth after the first leaves, in the [season called] صَيْف ; (TA;) and in like manner said of trees: (Msb, TA:) or اخلف الشَّجَرُ means the trees put forth fruit after other fruit. (JK.) And, said of fruit, It came forth, some thereof after other thereof. (TA.) And اخلفت الأَرْضُ The land became affected by the cold of the latter part of the [season called] صَيْف , and some of its trees consequently become green. (TA.) Also, said of a bird, It put forth feathers after the first feathers: (K, TA:) from the same verb said of a plant, or of herbage. (TA.) And, said of a boy, He nearly attained to puberty. (JK, Az. K, TA.) And, said of a solid-hoofed beast, He completed a year after the قُرُوح [or finishing teething, or shedding the corner-nipper]. (JK.) اخلفهُ said of medicine, It weakened him (K, TA) by causing him to go frequently to the privy. (TA.) And الإِخْلَافُ also signifies The bringing the stallion again to the she-camel when she has not conceived at once. (K.) See also 1, in six places, in the latter half of the paragraph.
Form 5تَخَلَّفَ1 sense

Core sense — he remained behind, he held backgenerated

5.1he held back from, or fell short of, doing the thing—تخلّف َنِ الأَمْرِ

See form 1, in two places in the middle of that paragraph.

Qur’ānic occurrences Form 5
9:120
مَا كَانَ لِأَهْلِ ٱلْمَدِينَةِ وَمَنْ حَوْلَهُم مِّنَ ٱلْأَعْرَابِ أَن يَتَخَلَّفُوا۟ عَن رَّسُولِ ٱللَّهِ وَلَا يَرْغَبُوا۟ بِأَنفُسِهِمْ عَن نَّفْسِهِۦ ۚ ذَٰلِكَ بِأَنَّهُمْ لَا يُصِيبُهُمْ ظَمَأٌ وَلَا نَصَبٌ وَلَا مَخْمَصَةٌ فِى سَبِيلِ ٱللَّهِ وَلَا يَطَـُٔونَ مَوْطِئًا يَغِيظُ ٱلْكُفَّارَ وَلَا يَنَالُونَ مِنْ عَدُوٍّ نَّيْلًا إِلَّا كُتِبَ لَهُم بِهِۦ عَمَلٌ صَـٰلِحٌ ۚ إِنَّ ٱللَّهَ لَا يُضِيعُ أَجْرَ ٱلْمُحْسِنِينَ

It was not fitting for the people of Medina and the Bedouin Arabs of the neighbourhood, to refuse to follow Allah's Messenger, nor to prefer their own lives to his: because nothing could they suffer or do, but was reckoned to their credit as a deed of righteousness,- whether they suffered thirst, or fatigue, or hunger, in the cause of Allah, or trod paths to raise the ire of the Unbelievers, or received any injury whatever from an enemy: for Allah suffereth not the reward to be lost of those who do good;-

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see 1, in two places, in the middle of the paragraph. [Hence, تخلّف َنِ الأَمْرِ He held back from, or fell short of, doing the thing.]
Form 6تَخَاْلَفَ1 sense

Core sense — they disagreed with one another, they were dissimilargenerated

6.1

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see the next paragraph, in three places.
Form 8اِخْتِلَافٌ7 senses · 2 main

Core sense — following one another in turn; going to and fro; disagreement, differencegenerated

8.1and the alternating of the night and the day—وَٱخْتِلَافِ اللَّيْلُ وَالنَّهَارِ

It means the following of one another in turn; alternating.

Qur'ān 2:159, 3:187, and 45:4. And in a verse of El-ʿAjjáj cited under أَبْلَى, in the article بلو.

each of them beat, or struck, the other in turn—اِخْتَلَفَا ضَرْبَةً
and two blows were interchanged between ʿObeydeh Ibn-El-Hárith and El-Weleed Ibn-ʿOkbeh—فَٱخْتَلَفَتْ بَيْنَ عُبَيْدَةَ بْنِ الحٰرِثِ وَالوَلِيدِ بْنِ عُقْبَةَ ضَرْبَتَانِ
my hand and the hand of the Apostle of God were both put by turns into one vessel—اِخْتَلَفَتْ يَدِى وَيدُ رَسُولِ ٱللّٰهِ فِى إِنَآءٍ وَاحِدٍ
they followed, or succeeded, one another, one going and another coming after him—اِخْتَلَفُوا

From a tradition of ʿAlee.

From a tradition of Umm-Sabeeyeh.

See the article عور.

8.1.1figurative · مجاز — inferredhe goes back to such a one time after time, repeatedly—هُوَ يَخْتَلِفُ إِلَى فُلَانٍ

Also: going, or moving, repeatedly to and fro; coming and going; reciprocating; synonymous with تَرَدُّدٌ, as shown in this article in the K and TA, and in the S and K in the article رود and elsewhere. It also means returning, or going back, time after time to a person or place, because that implies coming and going; and sometimes simply returning, since this cannot happen without a previous going.

That is, يَتَرَدَّدُ.

he returned to him once—اِخْتَلَفَ إِلَيْهِ ٱخْتِلَافَةً وَاحِدَةً
he goes often to the assemblies of learning—هُوَ يَخْتَلِفُ إِلَى مَجَالِسِ العِلْمِ

Synonymous with يَتَرَدَّدُ. See the article رد.

he went to the privy time after time—اِخْتَلَفَ إِلَى المُتَوَضَّأِ
he had a looseness of the bowels, or a diarrhoea—اِخْتَلَفَ إِلَى الخَلآءِ

This properly means the same as the phrase before it.

he supplied, gave, or offered water—اختلف

Perhaps because it implies coming and going.

8.1.2the two things, or affairs, or cases, were, or became, dissimilar—تخالف الأَمْرَانِ

Also: disagreeing, differing, or varying in state, condition, or quality; being dissimilar, different, various, incongruous, discordant, or dissentient.

اختلف is the opposite of اِتَّفَقَ, and is said of anything whose parts or members are dissimilar; so too تخالف.

Also اختلف الامران; that is, لَمْ يَتَّفِقَا.

they disagreed فِى أَمْرٍ in a thing, or an affair, or a case—اختلفوا

Also تخالفوا: every one of them took to, or held, a way, or an opinion, different from that of another; both mean the same.

make your ranks even when you place yourselves to pray together, and do not stand unevenly, for then your hearts will disagree—سَوُّوا صُفُوفَكُمْ وَلَا تَخْتَلِفُوا فَتَخْتَلِفَ قُلُوبُكُمْ

From a tradition. That is, when one of you advances or stands before another in the ranks, your hearts will be affected, and disagreement in respect of friendship and amity will arise among you. Or, some say: your hearts will be made to recoil. Or: the صُورَة [or specific character] of your hearts will be changed into another صورة.

اِخْتَلَفَتْ عَنْ أَنْوَائِهَا, said of stars: see form 4, near the middle of that paragraph.

8.1.3the affair, or case, was, or became, complicated, intricate, or confused—اختلف الأَمْرُ بَيْنَهُمْ

Also: being complicated, intricate, or confused, so as to be a subject of disagreement or difference between them; a phrase of frequent occurrence.

8.2

For اختلفهُ, see form 1, in two places in the earlier half of that paragraph.

8.2.1

See also form 2, in two places.

8.2.2

For اختلف صَاحِبَهُ, see form 3, near the middle of that paragraph.

Qur’ānic occurrences Form 8 5 shown of 29
19:37
فَٱخْتَلَفَ ٱلْأَحْزَابُ مِنۢ بَيْنِهِمْ ۖ فَوَيْلٌ لِّلَّذِينَ كَفَرُوا۟ مِن مَّشْهَدِ يَوْمٍ عَظِيمٍ

But the sects differ among themselves: and woe to the unbelievers because of the (coming) Judgment of a Momentous Day!

22:69
ٱللَّهُ يَحْكُمُ بَيْنَكُمْ يَوْمَ ٱلْقِيَـٰمَةِ فِيمَا كُنتُمْ فِيهِ تَخْتَلِفُونَ

"Allah will judge between you on the Day of Judgment concerning the matters in which ye differ."

27:76
إِنَّ هَـٰذَا ٱلْقُرْءَانَ يَقُصُّ عَلَىٰ بَنِىٓ إِسْرَٰٓءِيلَ أَكْثَرَ ٱلَّذِى هُمْ فِيهِ يَخْتَلِفُونَ

Verily this Qur'an doth explain to the Children of Israel most of the matters in which they disagree.

32:25
إِنَّ رَبَّكَ هُوَ يَفْصِلُ بَيْنَهُمْ يَوْمَ ٱلْقِيَـٰمَةِ فِيمَا كَانُوا۟ فِيهِ يَخْتَلِفُونَ

Verily thy Lord will judge between them on the Day of Judgment, in the matters wherein they differ (among themselves)

43:65
فَٱخْتَلَفَ ٱلْأَحْزَابُ مِنۢ بَيْنِهِمْ ۖ فَوَيْلٌ لِّلَّذِينَ ظَلَمُوا۟ مِنْ عَذَابِ يَوْمٍ أَلِيمٍ

But sects from among themselves fell into disagreement: then woe to the wrong-doers, from the Penalty of a Grievous Day!

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signifies The following reciprocally; or alternating. (Mgh.) So in the phrase in the Kur [ii. 159 and iii. 187 and xlv. 4], وَٱخْتِلَافِ اللَّيْلُ وَالنَّهَارِ And the alternating of the night and the day. (Mgh) [And in a verse of El-'Ajjáj cited voce أَبْلَى , in art. بلو .] And hence the phrase, اِخْتَلَفَا ضَرْبَةً Each of them beat, or struck the other in turn. (Mgh.) And the saying, in a trad. of 'Alee, فَٱخْتَلَفَتْ بَيْنَ عُبَيْدَةَ بْنِ الحٰرِثِ وَالوَلِيدِ بْنِ عُقْبَةَ ضَرْبَتَانِ [And two blows were interchanged between 'Obeydeh Ibn-El-Hárith and El-Weleed Ibn-'Okbeh]. (Mgh.) And the saying, in a trad. of Umm-Sabeeyeh, اِخْتَلَفَتْ يَدِى وَيدُ رَسُولِ ٱللّٰهِ فِى إِنَآءٍ وَاحِدٍ , meaning My hand and the hand of the Apostle of God were both put [by turns] into one vessel. (Mgh.) And اِخْتَلَفُوا signifies They followed, or succeeded, one another; whenever one went, another coming after him. (TA in art. عور .) Also The going, or moving, repeatedly, to and fro; so coming and going; or reciprocating; syn. تَرَدُّدٌ [in this sense, as is shown in this art. in the K and TA, and in the S and K in art. رود &c.: and also as mean ing the returning, or repairing, time after time, or repeatedly, or frequently, to a person or place; because it implies coming and going: and sometimes it means simply the returning; because this cannot be without a previous going]. (K.) You say, هُوَ يَخْتَلِفُ إِلَى فُلَانٍ , i. e. يَتَرَدَّدُ [He returns, or repairs, time after time, repeatedly, or frequently, to such a one]: and اِخْتَلَفَ إِلَيْهِ ٱخْتِلَافَةً وَاحِدَةً [He returned to him once]. (TA.) And هُوَ يَخْتَلِفُ إِلَى مَجَالِسِ العِلْمِ He repairs frequently to, or frequents, the assemblies of science; syn. يَتَرَدَّدُ . (A in art. رد .) And اِخْتَلَفَ إِلَى المُتَوَضَّأِ [He returned, or repaired, time after time, &c., to the privy]. (S.) And اِخْتَلَفَ إِلَى الخَلآءِ [properly signifies the same: and hence, He had a looseness of the bowels, or a diarrhœa]. (K.) And [perhaps as implying coming and going,] اختلف also signifies He supplied, or gave, or offered, water. (TA.) [Also The disagreeing, differing, or varying, in state or condition or quality &c.; being dissimilar, different, diverse, various, incongruous, discordant, or dissentient:] اختلف is the contr. of اِتَّفَقَ ; (K, TA;) and is said of anything that is dissimilar [in the parts or members &c. of which it is composed]; as also تخالف . (TA.) You say, تخالف الأَمْرَانِ [and اختلف الامران ], i. e. لَمْ يَتَّفِقَا [The two things, or affairs, or cases, were, or became, dissimilar, &c.]. (TA.) And اختلفوا and تخالفوا (Mgh, Msb) [They disagreed, &c., فِى أَمْرٍ in a thing or an affair or a case;] every one of them took to, or held, a way, or an opinion, different from, or contrary to, that of another: (Msb:) both signify the same. (Mgh.) It is said in a trad., سَوُّوا صُفُوفَكُمْ وَلَا تَخْتَلِفُوا فَتَخْتَلِفَ قُلُوبُكُمْ [Make ye your ranks even when ye place yourselves to pray together, and be not dissimilar in your positions, for in that case your hearts would disagree]; meaning, when one of you advances, or stands, before another in the ranks, your hearts will be affected, and disagreement in respect of friendship and amity will arise among you: or, as some say, it means, your hearts will be made to recoil: or the صُورَة [or specific character] of your hearts will become changed into another صورة . (TA.) [Hence,] اِخْتَلَفَتْ عَنْ أَنْوَائِهَا , said of stars: see 4, near the middle of the paragraph. Also The being complicated, intricate, or confused. (KL.) [You say, اختلف الأَمْرُ بَيْنَهُمْ The affair, or case, was, or became, complicated, intricate, or confused, so as to be a subject of disagreement, or difference, between them: a phrase of frequent occurrence.] اختلفهُ : see 1, in two places, in the former half of the paragraph. See also 2, in two places. اختلف صَاحِبَهُ : see 3, near the middle of the paragraph.
Form 10استخلفهُ4 senses · 2 main

Core sense — he appointed him his successor; he took it as a substitutegenerated

10.1

See form 2, in two places.

10.1.1

Also: he took it (a thing) as a substitute, or in exchange, for another thing, or in the place of another thing; synonymous with اِسْتَعْوَضَهُ and اِسْتَبْدَلَهُ.

10.1.2the land produced the herbage of the season called اِسْتَبْدَلَهُ—استخلفتِ الأَرْضُ
10.2

See also form 1, in two places, in the middle of the latter half of that paragraph.

Qur’ānic occurrences Form 10
6:133
وَرَبُّكَ ٱلْغَنِىُّ ذُو ٱلرَّحْمَةِ ۚ إِن يَشَأْ يُذْهِبْكُمْ وَيَسْتَخْلِفْ مِنۢ بَعْدِكُم مَّا يَشَآءُ كَمَآ أَنشَأَكُم مِّن ذُرِّيَّةِ قَوْمٍ ءَاخَرِينَ

Thy Lord is self-sufficient, full of Mercy: if it were His will, He could destroy you, and in your place appoint whom He will as your successors, even as He raised you up from the posterity of other people.

7:129
قَالُوٓا۟ أُوذِينَا مِن قَبْلِ أَن تَأْتِيَنَا وَمِنۢ بَعْدِ مَا جِئْتَنَا ۚ قَالَ عَسَىٰ رَبُّكُمْ أَن يُهْلِكَ عَدُوَّكُمْ وَيَسْتَخْلِفَكُمْ فِى ٱلْأَرْضِ فَيَنظُرَ كَيْفَ تَعْمَلُونَ

They said: "We have had (nothing but) trouble, both before and after thou camest to us." He said: "It may be that your Lord will destroy your enemy and make you inheritors in the earth; that so He may try you by your deeds."

11:57
فَإِن تَوَلَّوْا۟ فَقَدْ أَبْلَغْتُكُم مَّآ أُرْسِلْتُ بِهِۦٓ إِلَيْكُمْ ۚ وَيَسْتَخْلِفُ رَبِّى قَوْمًا غَيْرَكُمْ وَلَا تَضُرُّونَهُۥ شَيْـًٔا ۚ إِنَّ رَبِّى عَلَىٰ كُلِّ شَىْءٍ حَفِيظٌ

"If ye turn away,- I (at least) have conveyed the Message with which I was sent to you. My Lord will make another people to succeed you, and you will not harm Him in the least. For my Lord hath care and watch over all things."

24:55
وَعَدَ ٱللَّهُ ٱلَّذِينَ ءَامَنُوا۟ مِنكُمْ وَعَمِلُوا۟ ٱلصَّـٰلِحَـٰتِ لَيَسْتَخْلِفَنَّهُمْ فِى ٱلْأَرْضِ كَمَا ٱسْتَخْلَفَ ٱلَّذِينَ مِن قَبْلِهِمْ وَلَيُمَكِّنَنَّ لَهُمْ دِينَهُمُ ٱلَّذِى ٱرْتَضَىٰ لَهُمْ وَلَيُبَدِّلَنَّهُم مِّنۢ بَعْدِ خَوْفِهِمْ أَمْنًا ۚ يَعْبُدُونَنِى لَا يُشْرِكُونَ بِى شَيْـًٔا ۚ وَمَن كَفَرَ بَعْدَ ذَٰلِكَ فَأُو۟لَـٰٓئِكَ هُمُ ٱلْفَـٰسِقُونَ

Allah has promised, to those among you who believe and work righteous deeds, that He will, of a surety, grant them in the land, inheritance (of power), as He granted it to those before them; that He will establish in authority their religion - the one which He has chosen for them; and that He will change (their state), after the fear in which they (lived), to one of security and peace: 'They will worship Me (alone) and not associate aught with Me. 'If any do reject Faith after this, they are rebellious and wicked.

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: see 2, in two places. Also He took it (a thing) as a substitute, or in exchange, for another thing; or in the place of another thing; syn. اِسْتَعْوَضَهُ and اِسْتَبْدَلَهُ . (TA.) استخلفتِ الأَرْضُ The land produced the herbage of the [season called] اِسْتَبْدَلَهُ . (TA.) See also 1, in the middle of the latter half of the paragraph, in two places.

Derived nouns 34

Nounخَلْفٌ12 senses · 5 main

Core sense — the part behind; the back; one who comes after another, a successorgenerated

1he came behind him, and after him—جَآءَ خَلْفَهُ

The place, or quarter, that is behind; and time past. In the CK it appears as خَلْفُ. Or الخَلْفُ, the opposite of قُدَّامٌ [or القُدَّامُ]. And خَلْفَ [behind; and after], the opposite of قُدَّامَ: a simple noun, and also an adverbial noun; of the feminine gender [as meaning the جِهَة], though otherwise it seems to be masculine.

Also مِنْ خَلْفِهِ.

I sat behind, or after, such a one—جَلَسْتُ خَلْفَ فُلَانٍ

Synonymous with بَعْدَهُ.

he remained after him—لَبِثَ خَلْفَهُ

In the Qur'ān 17:78 some read وَإِذًا لَايَلْبَثُونَ خَلْفَكَ, others خِلَافَكَ, which means the same; see the middle of the first paragraph of this article.

1.1the back itself—خَلْفٌ

So says IAar.

And particularly, of a house, the side opposite the one in which the door is; and since a house may have two doors, it may be said to have two backs, each of which may be called by this name. The dual seems to be used for two backs in a tradition [about the building of the Kaabeh].

1.2he is a bad son, who has taken his father's place—هُوَ خَلْفُ سَوْءٍ مِنْ أَبِيهِ

And: one who comes after another; so too خَلَفٌ, though some say there is a difference between these two, as is shown below; and also خَالِفٌ and خَالِفَةٌ. It is originally a maṣdar.

It means one who remains after another, whether that other be dead or living; and one remaining after another who has died — his follower, or successor, the follower of one who has gone. Used both in praise and in blame. Plural خُلُوفٌ.

The singular also means, according to some, persons remaining after others; a remnant of people; and a generation after a generation, as does خَلَفٌ. But Lth says that the first is applied to the bad and the second to the good, whether a generation or a son is meant: the latter means a good son remaining after his father, the former a bad son.

he is a good son, who has taken his father's place—خَلَفُ صِدْقٍ من ابيه

But sometimes each is used in place of the other, so that one says هو خَلْفُ صِدْقٍ من ابيه, both meaning the same; so says Akh, who adds that some use the one and some the other. Some, however, say خَلَفُ صِدْقٍ and خَلْفُ سَوْءٍ, meaning to distinguish between them.

IB: خَلَفٌ properly means a man's successor who is a substitute for him, whether good or bad; it is originally a maṣdar, and its plural is أَخْلَافٌ.

IAth: خَلَفُ صِدْقٍ means a good generation, and خَلْفُ سَوْءٍ an evil generation; and خَلْفٌ also means progeny, without restriction.

these are a bad generation—هٰؤُلَآءِ خَلْفُ سَوْءٍ

Said of a people who follow people more numerous than themselves.

we remained among an evil remnant—بَقِينَا فِى خَلْفِ سَوْءٍ
and there remained after them a remnant—فَخَلَفَ مِنْ بَعْدِهِمْ خَلْفٌ

So the Qur'ān 7:168 and 19:60 is explained.

1.3figurative · مجاز

Hence: one in whom is no good; and apparently also persons in whom is no good.

1.4figurative · مجاز — inferredhe held his tongue from a thousand words, and then said something wrong—سَكَتَ أَلْفًا وَنَطَقَ خَلْفًا

Also: a thing in which is no good; particularly a bad saying, a wrong, bad saying, like the خَلْف of mankind. A ʿObeyd. See also خُلْفٌ.

A proverb.

it is a thing in which is no good: it uttered a thing in which was no good—إِنَّهَا خَلْفٌ نَطَقَتْ خَلْفًا

An Arab of the desert who had been guilty of a breach of manners pointed with his thumb towards his اِسْت and said this; but it obviously admits of being rendered otherwise.

1.5a tribe who are absent, none of them remaining behind—حَىٌّ خُلُوفٌ

Also: people who have gone away from the tribe to draw water and have left their baggage and the like behind them; and also such of the tribe as are present, remaining behind — so it bears two contrary meanings. Plural خُلُوفٌ.

Or: a tribe whose men are absent and whose women remain. And خُلُوفٌ also means the contrary, that is, such as are present, remaining behind.

he did not leave his family neglected, with no keeper nor protector—لَمْ يَتْرُكْ أَهْلَهُ خُلُوفًا

Said of Mohammad in a tradition.

on this sense See also the verse of El-Hoteiäh in the latter part of the first paragraph of this article.

2

Old and worn out; applied to a وَطْب [or skin for milk, or for clarified butter and milk: as though it were a remnant of it]. Ibn-ʿAbbād.

3

A مِرْبَد, that is, a place of confinement for camels; or such a place as is behind the tent or house.

4a two-headed فأس—فَأْسٌ ذَاتُ خَلْقَيْنِ

A large فَأْس [that is, a hoe, adze, or axe]; or one that has a single head. Also the edge of a فأس, or its head.

ذَاتُ خَلْقَيْنِ and ذَاتُ خِلْقَيْنِ are names of the فأس when it is two-headed; and the plural is ذَوَاتُ الخَلْقَيْنِ, of which the plural is خُلُوفٌ.

4.1

And the head of a razor.

4.2

And the pointed head of a مِنْقَار [an iron instrument like the فَأْس, mentioned in the A and the K under the article نقر, with which millstones and the like are pecked, or wrought into shape — see مِنْقَارٌ — and with which wood is cut].

5

See also خِلْفٌ.

Qur’ānic occurrences خَلْف 5 shown of 22
2:66
فَجَعَلْنَـٰهَا نَكَـٰلًا لِّمَا بَيْنَ يَدَيْهَا وَمَا خَلْفَهَا وَمَوْعِظَةً لِّلْمُتَّقِينَ

So We made it an example to their own time and to their posterity, and a lesson to those who fear Allah.

8:57
فَإِمَّا تَثْقَفَنَّهُمْ فِى ٱلْحَرْبِ فَشَرِّدْ بِهِم مَّنْ خَلْفَهُمْ لَعَلَّهُمْ يَذَّكَّرُونَ

If ye gain the mastery over them in war, disperse, with them, those who follow them, that they may remember.

20:110
يَعْلَمُ مَا بَيْنَ أَيْدِيهِمْ وَمَا خَلْفَهُمْ وَلَا يُحِيطُونَ بِهِۦ عِلْمًا

He knows what (appears to His creatures as) before or after or behind them: but they shall not compass it with their knowledge.

22:76
يَعْلَمُ مَا بَيْنَ أَيْدِيهِمْ وَمَا خَلْفَهُمْ ۗ وَإِلَى ٱللَّهِ تُرْجَعُ ٱلْأُمُورُ

He knows what is before them and what is behind them: and to Allah go back all questions (for decision).

36:45
وَإِذَا قِيلَ لَهُمُ ٱتَّقُوا۟ مَا بَيْنَ أَيْدِيكُمْ وَمَا خَلْفَكُمْ لَعَلَّكُمْ تُرْحَمُونَ

When they are told, "Fear ye that which is before you and that which will be after you, in order that ye may receive Mercy," (they turn back).

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[meaning The location, or quarter, that is behind; and the time past;] (K; [so in my MS. copy, and thus it should be written as a simple noun; but in the CK خَلْفُ ;]) or الخَلْفُ ; (Lth, K;) contr. of قُدَّامٌ [or القُدَّامُ ]: (Lth, K:) [and] خَلْفَ [Behind; and after;] contr. of قُدَّامَ : (S: [thus in my tow copies; and said in the margin of one of them to be thus in the copy of IB, and in that of El-Jawáleekee:]) a simple noun: and an adv. n.: of the fem. gender [as meaning the جِهَة ; but otherwise it seems to be masc.]. (TA.) You say, جَآءَ خَلْفَهُ [and مِنْ خَلْفِهِ , both meaning He came behind him, and after him]. (Mgh.) And جَلَسْتُ خَلْفَ فُلَانٍ I sat after, or behind, such a one; syn. بَعْدَهُ (S.) And لَبِثَ خَلْفَهُ He remained after him. (K.) Some read, in the Kur [xvii. 78], وَإِذًا لَايَلْبَثُونَ خَلْفَكَ : others read خِلَافَكَ [which means the same, as mentioned above: see the middle of the first paragraph of this art.]. (TA.) خَلْفٌ signifies also The back (K, TA) itself: so says IAar: and particularly, of a house; the side corresponding to, or over against, that in which is the door; and as a house may have two doors, [in two different sides,] it may be said to have two backs, each of which may be thus termed; and the dual of this word seems to be used as meaning two backs in a trad. [respecting the building of the Kaabeh]. (TA.) And One who comes after another; (S, TA;) as also خَلَفٌ , or, accord. to some, there is a difference between these two, as will be shown in what follows; (S;) and خَالِفٌ and خَالِفَةٌ : it is originally an inf. n.: (TA:) and signifies one who remains after another, whether this other be dead or living: and one remaining after another who is dead; his follower, or successor; the follower, or successor, of one who has gone: used in praise and in dispraise: pl. خُلُوفٌ : and the sing. also signifies [like the pl.] persons remaining after others; accord. to some: (IB, TA:) a remnant of people: (Lh, TA:) and a generation after a generation; (Lth, S, K;) as also خَلَفٌ : (Lth, TA:) but Lth says that the former is applied to the evil, and ↓ the latter to the good, (K, TA,) whether meaning a generation or a son: (TA:) the latter means a good son (K, TA) remaining after his father: (TA:) and the former, a bad son: (K, TA:) [therefore] one says, هُوَ خَلْفُ سَوْءٍ مِنْ أَبِيهِ [He is a bad son] who has taken the place of his father, and خَلَفُ صِدْقٍ من ابيه [a good son] &c.: (S:) but sometimes each is used in the place of the other; so that one says, هو خَلْفُ صِدْقٍ من ابيه : (K:) or both signify the same: (S, K:) so says Akh: some, he says, use the former; and some, the latter: but some say خَلَفُ صِدْقٍ and خَلْفُ سَوْءٍ , meaning thus to distinguish between them: (S:) accord. to IB, خَلَفٌ correctly signifies a man's successor who is a substitute for him, good and bad: and is originally an inf. n.: (TA:) and the pl. of this is أَخْلَافٌ : (AZ, IB, TA:) accord. to IAth, خَلَفُ صِدْقٍ means a good generation: and خَلْفُ سَوْءٍ , an evil generation: (TA:) and خَلْفٌ likewise signifies progeny [without restriction]. (K.) One says also, (S, K,) of a people following people more in number than they, (S,) هٰؤُلَآءِ خَلْفُ سَوْءٍ [These are a bad generation. (S, K.) And بَقِينَا فِى خَلْفِ سَوْءٍ We remained among an evil remnant. (Lh, TA.) And فَخَلَفَ مِنْ بَعْدِهِمْ خَلْفٌ , in the Kur [vii. 168 and xix. 60], is explained as meaning And there remained after them a remnant. (TA.) [Hence,] One in whom is no good. (IB, K.) [And app. also Persons in whom is no good..] And A thing in which is no good: (IB, TA:) [and particularly] a bad saying; (ISk, S, Msb, K;) a wrong, bad saying, like the خَلْف of mankind. (A 'Obeyd, Msb.) See also خُلْفٌ . It is said in a prov., سَكَتَ أَلْفًا وَنَطَقَ خَلْفًا He held his tongue from a thousand words ( سَكَتَ عَنْ أَلْفِ كَلِمَة ), and then uttered what was wrong. (ISk, S, Msb.) An Arab of the desert, who had been guilty of a breach of manners ( حَبَقَ حَبْقَةً ), pointed with his thumb towards his اِسْت , and said, إِنَّهَا خَلْفٌ نَطَقَتْ خَلْفًا [which may be rendered, Verily it is a thing in which is no good: it uttered a thing in which was no good: but it obviously admits of being rendered otherwise]. (IAar, S.) Also People who have gone away from the tribe (T, K) to draw water, and have left their baggage &c. behind them: (T, TA:) and such as are present, [remaining behind,] of the tribe: thus bearing two contr. significations: pl. خُلُوفٌ . (K.) You say حَىٌّ خُلُوفٌ A tribe who are absent; none of them remaining behind: (S, TA:) or a tribe of which the men are absent and the women remaining: (TA:) and خُلُوفٌ also signifies the contr., i. e. such as are present, (S, TA,) remaining behind. (S.) It is said of Mohammad, in a trad., لَمْ يَتْرُكْ أَهْلَهُ خُلُوفًا , i. e. He did not leave his family neglected, with no pastor nor protector. (TA.) See also a verse of El-Hoteíäh in the latter part of the first paragraph of this article. Old and worn out; applied to a وَطْب [or skin for milk, or for clarified butter and milk: as though it were a remnant thereof]. (Ibn-' Abbád, K.) A مِرْبَد ; (S, K;) i. e. a place of confinement for camels: (TA:) or such as is behind the tent or house. (JK, S, * K.) A large فَأْس [i. e. hoe or adze or axe]: or such as has one head: and the edge of a فأس : or the head thereof: (K:) you say فَأْسٌ ذَاتُ خَلْقَيْنِ a two-headed فأس : (S, TA:) or ذَاتُ خَلْقَيْنِ and ذَاتُ خِلْقَيْنِ are names of the فأس (K, TA) when two-headed: (TA:) and the pl. is ذَوَاتُ الخَلْقَيْنِ : (K:) pl. خُلُوفٌ . (JK.) And The head of a razor. (K.) And The [pointed] head of a مِنْقَار , [an iron instrument like the فَأْس , (A and K in art. نقر ,) with which mill-stones &c. are pecked, or wrought into shape, (see مِنْقَارٌ ,) and] with which wood is cut. (TA.) See also خِلْفٌ .
Nounخُلْفٌ3 senses · 2 main

Core sense — the breaking of a promise; disagreement, differencegenerated

1

A noun from إِخْلَافٌ, used of a promise and restricted to future time; a noun used in the place of إِخْلَافٌ, meaning the breach, or non-fulfilment, of a promise; so too خُلُفٌ, which is said to be the original form of the word, and خُلُوفٌ.

With respect to the future it is like كَذِبٌ with respect to the past.

Some say it means a false, or wrong, saying, which is a meaning of خَلْفٌ with fatḥah, mentioned before; but perhaps these two words are synonymous dialectal variants.

1.1

Also, or خُلْفَةٌ and خِلْفَةٌ: disagreement, difference, dissension, contrariety, or opposition — in opinions and the like, or in respect of friendship and amity, or in natural disposition; so too خِلَفْنَةٌ, خِلَفْنَاةٌ, خَالِفٌ, and خَالِفَةٌ.

2

It is also the plural of خَلِيفٌ in its various senses.

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a subst. from إِخْلَافٌ , (S, Msb, K,) relating to a promise, and restricted to future time; (Msb;) i. e. a subst. used in the place of إِخْلَافٌ ; (Lh, TA;) meaning The breach, or non-fulfilment, of a promise; as also خُلُفٌ , which is said to be the original form of the word, and خُلُوفٌ : (TA:) it is, in respect of the future, like كَذِبٌ in respect of the past: (S, K:) some say that it signifies a false, or wrong, saying; which is a meaning of خَلْفٌ , with fet-h, before mentioned: but perhaps these two words may be syn. dial. vars. (MF, TA.) Also, (Msb,) or خُلْفَةٌ , and خِلْفَةٌ , (K, TA,) Disagreement, difference, dissension, contrariety, contrariousness, or opposition, (Msb, K, * TA,) in opinions or the like, (Msb,) or in respect of friendship and amity, (TA in explanation of the second of these words,) or in natural disposition; (K;) as also خِلَفْنَةٌ (S, K) and خِلَفْنَاةٌ and خَالِفٌ and خَالِفَةٌ . (K.) It is also pl. of خَلِيفٌ , in its various senses.
Nounخِلْفٌ6 senses · 5 main

Core sense — a she-camel's teat; the shortest rib of the side; the drawing of watergenerated

1

See خِلْفَةٌ, in the latter half of that paragraph, in seven places.

1.1

Also, applied to a man, the same as لَجُوجٌ, apparently meaning one who perseveres much in opposition or contention or the like; so too خَالِفَةٌ.

2where do you draw water from?—مِنْ أَيْنِ خِلْفَتُكُمْ

Also a noun from إِخْلَافٌ, meaning the drawing of water; and so خِلْفَةٌ.

3figurative · مجازthe world yielded him abundance of its good things—دَرَّتْ لَهُ أَخْلَافُ الدُّنْيَا

The teat of the udder of the she-camel; and the two fore ones, and the two hinder ones. Or the part of the udder upon which the milker lays hold. Or the extremity of the udder of the she-camel. Or the hinder of the أَطْبَآء [or teats]. Or the udder itself: it is, to the she-camel, like the ثَدْى to a human being, or like the ضَرْع to a ewe or she-goat.

Or خِلْف is of the camel and of the cloven-hoofed animal, and طُبْى of the solid-hoofed animal and of the animal that has a claw. The plural of paucity is أَخْلَافٌ, and that of multitude خُلُوفٌ.

4

The shortest of the ribs of the side; so too خَلْفٌ, also called ضِلَعٌ الخِلْفِ and الخَلْفِ. It is the furthest and thinnest of the ribs; that is, the خِلْف is the one next to the belly among the small ribs, their قُصَيْرَى [see القُصْرَى]. The plural of the former, and of the latter, is خُلُوفٌ.

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For ذَاتُ خِلْفَيْنِ, see خَلْفٌ, near the end of that paragraph.

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: see خِلْفَةٌ , in the latter half of the paragraph, in seven places. Also, applied to a man, (Sgh,) i. q. لَجُوجٌ [app. as meaning One who perseveres much in opposition or contention or the like]; (Sgh, K;) as also خَالِفَةٌ . (TA.) Also a subst. from إِخْلَافٌ meaning The act of drawing water; and so خِلْفَةٌ : (A 'Obeyd, K: *) [whence the saying,] مِنْ أَيْنِ خِلْفَتُكُمْ Whence do ye draw water? (S, K.) The teat ( حَلَمَة ) of the udder of the she-camel: (S, K:) and the two fore ones, and the two hinder ones: (S:) or the part of the udder upon which the milker lays hold: (TA:) or the extremity of the udder of the she-camel: (Msb, K:) or the hinder of the أَطْبَآء [or teats]: (K:) or the udder itself; (Lth, TA;) [i. e.] it is, to the she-camel, (Msb, * K,) like the ثَدْى to the human being, (Msb,) or like the ضَرْع to the ewe or she-goat: (K:) or the خِلْف is of the camel and of the cloven-hoofed animal; and the طُبْى , of the solid-hoofed animal and of the animal that has a claw: (Lh, TA:) the pl. [properly of pauc.] is أَخْلَافٌ (Msb, TA) and [of mult.] خُلُوفٌ . (TA.) One says, دَرَّتْ لَهُ أَخْلَافُ الدُّنْيَا [The world yielded him abundance of its good things]. (TA.) The shortest of the ribs of the side; (S;) [and] so خَلْفٌ ; (K;) likewise called ضِلَعٌ الخِلْفِ and الخَلْفِ ; it is the furthest and thinnest of the ribs; (TA;) [i. e.] the خِلْف is that next to the belly, of the small ribs; their قُصَيْرَى : (K: [see القُصْرَى :]) pl. of the former (S) [and] of the latter (K) خُلُوفٌ . (S, K.) ذَاتُ خِلْفَيْنِ : see خَلْفٌ , near the end of the paragraph.
Nounخَلَفٌ1 sense

Core sense — a substitute, something put in the place of another thinggenerated

1make this a substitute for this—اِجْعَلْ هٰذَا خَلْفًا مِنْ هٰذَا
this is a substitute for what has been taken to you—هٰذَا خَلَفٌ مِمَّا أُخِذَ لَكَ
in these people are such as supply the place of those who have gone—فِى هٰؤُلَآءِ القَوْمِ خَلَفٌ مِمَّنْ مَضَى
in such a one is a substitute for such a one—فِى فُلَانٍ خَلَفٌ مِنْ فُلَانٍ
he is a substitute for his father—هُوَ مِنْ أَبِيهِ خَلَفٌ

A substitute; a thing given, or received, or put, or done, instead of, in the place of, or in exchange for, another thing. A ʿObeyd.

See also خَلْفٌ, in six places, in the earlier half of that paragraph.

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A substitute; a thing given, or received, or put, or done, instead of, in place of, or in exchange for, another thing. (A 'Obeyd, Th, S, Msb, K, TA.) You say, اِجْعَلْ هٰذَا خَلْفًا مِنْ هٰذَا Make thou this to be a substitute for this. (Msb.) And هٰذَا خَلَفٌ مِمَّا أُخِذَ لَكَ This is a substitute for what has been taken to thee. (IB.) And فِى هٰؤُلَآءِ القَوْمِ خَلَفٌ مِمَّنْ مَضَى In these people are such as supply the place of those who have gone. (TA.) And فِى فُلَانٍ خَلَفٌ مِنْ فُلَانٍ [In such a one is a substitute for such a one]. (TA.) And هُوَ مِنْ أَبِيهِ خَلَفٌ He is a substitute for his father. (IB.) See also خَلْفٌ , in six places, in the former half of the paragraph.
Nounخَلِفٌ1 sense

Core sense — pregnant, said of she-camelsgenerated

1

Applied to she-camels, the same as مَخَاضٌ, that is, pregnant. The ism waḥda is formed with ة.

According to some, the plural of خَلِفَةٌ — which means a pregnant camel, or, as some say, one that has completed a year after bringing forth and has then been covered and has conceived, until she enters upon the term called التَّعْشِير, reckoned from the time when her pregnancy has become plain — is مَخَاضٌ, just as the plural of اِمْرَأَةٌ is نِسَآءٌ; and sometimes خَلِفَاتٌ and خِلَافٌ are used.

But خَلِفٌ occurs in the saying of the rájiz: [What ails you that you utter a grumbling cry, when the pregnant camels do not utter that cry?]

shāhid
مَا لَكَ تَرْغِينَ وَلَا تَرْغُوا الخَلِفْ
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, applied to she-camels, i. q. مَخَاضٌ , i. e. Pregnant: n. un. with ة : (S, K:) accord. to some, (TA,) the pl. of خَلِفَةٌ , which signifies a pregnant camel, (Mgh, Msb, TA,) or, as some say, one that has completed a year after bringing forth and has then been covered and has conceived, until she enters upon the term called التَّعْشِير , (TA, [from-the time when her pregnancy has become manifest, (see قَارِحٌ and لَاقِحٌ ,)] is مَخَاضٌ , (Mgh, Msb, TA,) like as the pl. of اِمْرَأَةٌ is نِسَآءٌ ; (Msb, TA;) and sometimes خَلِفَاتٌ (Mgh, Msb, TA) and خِلَافٌ : (TA:) but خَلِفٌ occurs in the saying of the rájiz, 1 [What aileth thee that thou utterest a grumbling cry, when the pregnant camels utter not that cry?]. (IB.) مَا لَكَ تَرْغِينَ وَلَا تَرْغُوا الخَلِفْ
Nounخُلَفٌ1 sense

Core sense — disagreement, difference, contrarietygenerated

1

See خُلْفَةٌ.

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: see خُلْفَةٌ .
Nounخُلُفٌ1 sense

Core sense — disagreement, difference, contrarietygenerated

1

See خُلْفٌ.

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: see خُلْفٌ .
Nounخَلْفَةٌ1 sense

Core sense — a fault, or vice; the last taste of foodgenerated

1

See the next entry, in two places.

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: see the next paragraph, in two places.
Nounخُلْفَةٌ3 senses · 1 main
maṣdarخُلُوفٌ

Core sense — a fault, or vice; foolishness; the last taste of foodgenerated

1

See خُلْفٌ.

1.1I sell you this slave, but I am not answerable to you for his fault—أَبِيعُكَ هٰذَا العَبْدَ وَأَبْرَأُ إِلَيْكَ مِنْ خُلْفَتِهِ

Also: a vice, a fault, or an imperfection; badness, corruptness, or dishonesty; foolishness or stupidity, or little or no intellect or understanding; so too خَلَافَةٌ [properly a maṣdar, of خَلُفَ, mentioned as such above; see form 1, in the latter half of that paragraph]; and idiocy.

All of these meanings have been given to it in explaining this saying. Or, according to IAar, the meaning is خِلَافِهِ [his contrariness].

1.2it is good, or sweet, in its last taste—إِنَّهُ لَطَيِّبُ الخُلْفَةِ

Also: the last taste of food.

So too خَلْفَةٌ; plural خُلَفٌ.

It also means loss of appetite for food because of disease. According to some copies of the K, خَلْفَةٌ has this last meaning, and so خُلَفٌ; according to other copies, خُلَفٌ is the plural of خَلْفَةٌ in this sense; but both these readings need looking into. What the lexicons have is خَلَفَتْ نَفْسُهُ عَنِ الطَّعَامِ, in the meaning explained above, in the latter half of the first paragraph.

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: see خُلْفٌ . Also A vice, a fault, or an imperfection: (K:) and badness, corruptness, vitiousness, or dishonesty: (TA:) and foolishness, or stupidity; or paucity, or want, of intellect or understanding; as also خَلَافَةٌ [properly an inf. n., of خَلُفَ , and before mentioned as such; (see 1, in the latter half of the paragraph;)] and idiocy. (K.) All of these meanings have been assigned to it in explanations of the saying, أَبِيعُكَ هٰذَا العَبْدَ وَأَبْرَأُ إِلَيْكَ مِنْ خُلْفَتِهِ [I sell to thee this slave, but I am irresponsible to thee for his vice, &c.]: or, accord. to IAar, the meaning is, خِلَافِهِ [his contrariousness]. (TA.) Also The last taste of food; (K;) as in the saying, إِنَّهُ لَطَيِّبُ الخُلْفَةِ [Verily it is good, or sweet, in respect of the last taste]; (TA;) and so خَلْفَةٌ : pl. خُلَفٌ : and it ( خُلْفَةٌ ) signifies also loss of appetite for food, in consequence of disease: (so accord. to the CK:) [or,] accord. to some copies of the K, خَلْفَةٌ has this latter signification; and so خُلَفٌ : accord. to other copies, خُلَفٌ is pl of خَلْفَةٌ in this sense: but both these readings require consideration: what is found in the Lexicons is, خَلَفَتْ نَفْسُهُ عَنِ الطَّعَامِ , aor. خَلُفَ , inf. n. خُلُوفٌ ; meaning as explained above, in the latter half of the first paragraph. (TA.)
Nounخِلْفَةٌ17 senses · 3 main

Core sense — a way of coming after; a plant or fruit that comes after another; differencegenerated

1

A noun meaning a mode, or manner, of coming after, or behind; like قِعْدَةٌ, which means a mode, or manner, of sitting.

1.1

See also خُلْفٌ.

1.2and He it is who has made the night and the day so that each replaces the other—وَهُوَ ٱلَّذِى جَعَلَ ٱللَّيْلَ وَٱلنَّهَارَ خِلْفَةً

It also means difference of any kind; or the coming and going of the night and the day, and likewise of wild animals.

Qur'ān 25:63; that is, ذَوَى خِلْفَةٍ. Or: each follows the other; or: so that one who cannot get a thing done in the night may do it in the day, and the reverse.

they go to and fro—يَمْشِينَ خِلْفَةً

Zuheyr says this of wild animals.

he was taken with a frequent going to and from the privy—أَخَذَتْهُ خِلْفَةٌ
a discharging of the bowels; a purging and vomiting together; a looseness, or diarrhoea—خِلْفَةٌ

Or a disordered state of the stomach arising from unwholesome food.

1.3

See also خِلْفٌ.

1.4

Also: the bringing of camels to the watering-place in the evening, after the people have gone away.

1.5

And a man's watching to see another, and, when that other is away from his family, going in to them; or rather, when he is away from his wife, going in to her.

Some copies of the K have أَنْ يُنَاظِرَ and others ان يُنَاصِرَ in place of ان يُبَاصِرُ, which is the right reading, agreeing with an explanation of اِخْتَلَفَ صَاحِبَهُ; see form 3, near the middle of that paragraph.

2

A thing that is hung behind the rider; such as is hung behind the kind of vehicle called مَحْمِل.

2.1

Remains of water in a trough or tank.

2.2

What remains, of food, between the teeth.

2.3

A plant, or herbage, that comes up after another plant, or other herbage, which has dried and broken in pieces; or that comes up not from rain, but because of the cold of the latter part of the night. Aboo-Ziyád El-Kilábee. See also رَبْلٌ.

2.4

What the trees put forth at the beginning of the cold, because of the rain called صَفَرِيَّة. Or fruit that comes after other fruit; or fruit that comes after abundant fruit, this being called the خِلْفَة of trees. Or a growth of leaves after other leaves have fallen — دُونَ in the K is a mistake for بَعْدَ. Or leaves that come out after the first leaves, in the season called صَيْف.

2.5

What grows in the صَيْف [or summer]; so says A ʿObeyd. Or, as also خِلْفٌ, the herbage produced by the صيف, or in the صيف, after the spring herbage has dried up.

2.6

A produce of grape-vines after the grapes have turned black; the grapes are gathered while it is fresh and green, and it then ripens; and so of other fruits. Or a new produce, by the vine, of fresh sour grapes.

2.7

Grain that is sown after the first has come to maturity, because it is taken as a substitute for wheat and barley. Plural خِلَفٌ.

2.8

A piece with which a garment is patched when it is old and worn out.

2.9

A time after a time.

3one tall and the other short; or one white and the other black—خِلْفَتَانِ

Differing one from another, or from others; so too خِلْفٌ. It is applied in this sense to a people, or company of men; and to beasts, or horses and the like, meaning differing in their colours and appearances.

خِلْفَتَانِ is applied to any two things that are different; so too خِلْفَانِ and خِلْفَةٌ; or خِلْفَتَانِ to any two colours that are combined, because they are different.

AZ cites, as an example, the saying of a rájiz: [My two buckets are different, and their two suppliers with water]

shāhid
دَلْوَاىْ خِلْفَانِ سَاقِيَاهُمَا

. He means that one of the buckets is going up and full and the other going down and empty; or that one is new and the other old and worn out.

Said of two children, or two male slaves, or two female slaves; also خِلْفَانِ, the two forms applying to the male and to the female.

the children of such a one are half males and half females—بَنُو فُلَانٍ خِلْفَةٌ
the offspring of the beasts of such a one are male one year and female another—نِتَاجُ فُلَانٍ خِلْفَةٌ
she brought forth a male one year and a female another—وَلَدَتْ خِلْفَيْنِ

Said of a ewe or she-goat, or of a camel.

The plural of خِلْفٌ, in all its senses, is أَخْلَافٌ and خِلَفَةٌ, the latter like قِرَدَةٌ as plural of قِرْدٌ.

Qur’ānic occurrences خِلْفَة
25:62
وَهُوَ ٱلَّذِى جَعَلَ ٱلَّيْلَ وَٱلنَّهَارَ خِلْفَةً لِّمَنْ أَرَادَ أَن يَذَّكَّرَ أَوْ أَرَادَ شُكُورًا

And it is He Who made the Night and the Day to follow each other: for such as have the will to celebrate His praises or to show their gratitude.

Occurrences of this form in the Qur’ān, not Lane’s choice of verse. They show the word in use; they do not say which sense above applies. Where more occur than are shown, the shortest āyāt are chosen.

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a subst. signifying A mode, or manner, of coming after [or behind]; like قِعْدَةٌ signifying “ a mode, or manner, of sitting. ” (Msb.) See also خُلْفٌ . It signifies also Difference [of any kind]: (K, * TA:) or the coming and going of the night and the day; (S, K, * TA;) and likewise of wild animals. (K.) Hence the saying in the Kur [xxv. 63], وَهُوَ ٱلَّذِى جَعَلَ ٱللَّيْلَ وَٱلنَّهَارَ خِلْفَةً , (S, K, *) meaning ذَوَى خِلْفَةٍ , (Bd,) i. e. [And He it is who hath made the night and the day] so that each replaces the other: or each follows the other: (K, * TA:) or so that he who is unable to accomplish a thing in the night may do it in the day, and the reverse. (Fr, L, K.) Zuheyr says, of wild animals, يَمْشِينَ خِلْفَةً , meaning They go to and fro. (S, TA. [See Em p. 109.]) And one says, أَخَذَتْهُ خِلْفَةٌ , meaning He was taken with [an affection causing] a frequent going to and from the privy. (S, K.) [And hence,] خِلْفَةٌ signifies also, A discharging of the bowels; or a purging and vomiting together; (K;) or a disordered state of the stomach arising from [unwholesome] food; (TA;) a looseness, or diarrhœa. (JK, TA.) See also خِلْفٌ . Also The bringing of camels to the watering-place in the evening, after the people have gone away. (L, K.) And A man's watching to see another, ( أَنْ يُنَاظِرَ in some copies of the K, and ان يُنَاصِرَ in other copies, being put for ان يُبَاصِرُ , which is the right reading, agreeably with an explanation of اِخْتَلَفَ صَاحِبَهُ , [for which see 3, near the middle of the paragraph,] TA,) and when he is absent from his family, going in to them, (K, TA,) or [rather], when he is absent from his wife, going in to her. (TA, after the explanation of the phrase above mentioned.) A thing that is suspended behind the rider; (JK, K;) such as is suspended behind the [kind of vehicle called] مَحْمِل . (TA.) Remains of water in a trough or tank. (TA.) What remains, of food, between the teeth. (Lh, K.) A plant, or herbage, that comes forth after another plant, or other herbage, (S, Msb, K,) which has become dry, and broken in pieces: (S, TA:) or that comes forth not from rain, but by reason of the cold of the latter part of the night. (Aboo-Ziyád El-Kilábee, K. [See also رَبْلٌ .]) What the trees disclose in the beginning of the cold, (K, TA,) by reason of the [rain called] صَفَرِيَّة [q. v.]: (TA:) or fruit that comes forth after other fruit: (K:) or fruit that comes forth after abundant fruit; (S, Mgh, TA;) this being termed the خِلْفَة of trees: (S, Mgh:) or a growth of leaves after the falling away of other leaves: (K, * TA: دُونَ in the K is a mistake for بَعْدَ : TA:) or leaves that come forth after the first leaves, in the [season called] صَيْف . (Nh, TA.) What grows in the صَيْف [or summer]; so says A 'Obeyd: (S, K:) or, (JK, Mgh, K,) as also خِلْفٌ , (K,) the herbage produced by the صيف , (JK, K,) or in the صيف , (Mgh,) after the springherbage has dried up. (JK, Mgh.) A produce of grape-vines after the grapes have turned black; the grapes being gathered while it is fresh and green, it then ripens: and so other fruits: or a new produce, by the vine, of fresh sour grapes. (K.) Grain that is sown (JK, * Mgh, K *) after the former has come to maturity: (Mgh, TA:) because taken as a substitute for wheat and barley: (K:) pl. خِلَفٌ . (Mgh.) A piece with which a garment is patched (K) when it is old and worn out. (TA.) A time after a time. (IAar, K.) Differing [one from another or others]; as also خِلْفٌ : (K:) it is applied in this sense to a people, or company of men: (AZ, S, K:) and to beasts, or horses or the like, as meaning differing (K, TA) in their colours and appearances: (TA:) and خِلْفَتَانِ is applied to any two things that are different; (Ks, TA;) as also خِلْفَانِ : (Ks, Msb, TA:) and خِلْفَةٌ , (K,) or خِلْفَتَانِ , (Ks, TA,) to any two colours that are combined [because different]. (Ks, K, TA.) AZ cites, as an ex., the saying [of a rájiz], 1 [My two buckets are different, and their two suppliers with water]; (S, TA;) meaning that one of them [i. e. of the buckets] is ascending and full, and the other is descending and empty; or that one of them is new, and the other is old and worn out. (TA, in two places.) And one says of two children, or two male slaves; or two female slaves, that they are خِلْفَتَانِ , (Ks, K,) and خِلْفَانِ , (K,) applying to the male and the female, (TA,) meaning One tall and the other short: or one white and the other black. (Ks, K.) One says also, بَنُو فُلَانٍ خِلْفَةٌ , meaning The children of such a one are half males and half females. (S.) And نِتَاجُ فُلَانٍ خِلْفَةٌ The offspring of the beasts of such a one are one year male and another year female. (JK, TA.) And وَلَدَتْ خِلْفَيْنِ , said of ewe or goat, (K,) or of a camel, (L,) She brought forth one year a male and another year a female. (L, K.) The pl. [of خِلْفٌ ] (K, TA) in all its senses (TA) is أَخْلَافٌ and خِلَفَةٌ ; (K, * TA;) the latter, [in the CK خِلْفَةٌ ,] like قِرَدَةٌ as pl. of قِرْدٌ . (TA.) دَلْوَاىْ خِلْفَانِ سَاقِيَاهُمَا
Nounخُلْفُفٌ2 senses · 1 main

Core sense — stupid, foolish; a great calamitygenerated

1

This word, and خُلْفَفٌ, خُلْفُفَةٌ, and خُلْفَفَةٌ: see خَالِفٌ, in the latter half of that paragraph.

1.1a calamity, or misfortune; or the greatest calamity or misfortune—أُمُّ خُلْفُفٍ

Also خُلْفَفٌ.

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and خُلْفَفٌ and خُلْفُفَةٌ and خُلْفَفَةٌ : see خَالِفٌ , in the latter half of the paragraph. أُمُّ خُلْفُفٍ (Sgh, K) and خُلْفَفٌ Calamity, or misfortune: or the greatest calamity or misfortune. (K.)
Nounخِلَفْنَةٌ2 senses · 1 main

Core sense — very contrary, contrariousgenerated

1

This word and خِلَفْنَاةٌ: see خُلْفٌ.

1.1

And see also خَالِفٌ, in the middle of that paragraph.

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and خِلَفْنَاةٌ : see خُلْفٌ : and see also خَالِفٌ , in the middle of the paragraph.
Nounخِلَافٌ4 senses · 2 main

Core sense — the contrary, or opposite, of a thing; a well-known kind of willow treegenerated

1

A maṣdar of form 3.

1.1الاختلاف is the contrary of الاتّفاق—الاِخْتِلَافُ خِلَافُ الاِتِّفَاقِ

Also: the contrary, or opposite, of a thing; synonymous with ضِدٌّ. See the article ضد. Very often used in this sense.

2

The common people wrongly pronounce it with tashdīd and fatḥah [to the خ, that is, خَلَّافٌ].

A well-known kind of tree; the tree called صَفْصَاف; or a species of the صفصاف, but not the صفصاف itself: the salix Aegyptia of Linnaeus, called by this name today, and by some, improperly, بَانٌ.

It abounds in the land of the Arabs, and is also called سَوْجَرٌ [or سَوْحَرٌ]. There are many varieties of it, all of them soft and weak; but it is seldom, or never, found in the desert.

They assert that it is so called because the torrent brings it from one place to another, so that it grows in a place different from that of its origin; but this is not a valid assertion. It is a collective noun; the ism waḥda is formed with ة.

سُوِّينَ مِنْ خِلَافِ, in the saying of the rájiz cited under خُفٌّ, means made of different trees; it does not mean made of the tree called خِلَاف, because that is seldom, or never, found in the desert.

2.1

Also: the sleeve of a shirt.

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an inf. n. of 3 [q. v. passim]. (S, &c.) Also The contrary, or opposite, of a thing; syn. ضِدٌّ . (Msb in art. ضد . [Very often used in this sense.]) You say, الاِخْتِلَافُ خِلَافُ الاِتِّفَاقِ [i. e. الاختلاف is the contrary of الاتّفاق ] (TA.) Also, (S, Msb, K,) by the vulgar (O, Msb, TA) incorrectly pronounced with teshdeed (O, Msb, K, TA) and fet-h [to the خ , i. e. خَلَّافٌ ], (TA,) A well-known kind of tree; (S;) the [kind of tree called] صَفْصَاف : (Msb:) or a species of the صفصاف , but not the صفصاف itself: (K:) [the salix Aegyptia of Linnæus; called by this name in the present day; and by some, improperly, بَانٌ , q. v.:] it abounds in the land of the Arabs; and is [also] called سَوْجَرٌ [or سَوْحَرٌ ]; and there are many varieties thereof; all of them soft and weak; (TA;) but it is seldom, or never, found in the desert: (Msb:) they assert that it is thus called because the torrent brings it from one locality to another, so that it grows in a place different from that of its origin; (AHn, Msb, K, * TA;) but this is not a valid assertion: (TA:) [it is a coll. gen. n.:] n. un. with ة . (Msb, TA.) سُوِّينَ مِنْ خِلَافِ , in the saying of the rájiz cited voce خُفٌّ , means Made of different trees: it does not mean of the tree called خِلَاف ; because this is seldom, or never, found in the desert. (S, TA.) Also The sleeve of a shirt. (IAar, K.)
Nounخُلُوفٌ3 senses · 2 main

Core sense — an alteration for the worse in the odour of the mouthgenerated

1

See خُلْفٌ.

2

It is also, as stated above, the plural of خَلْفٌ.

2.1

And a plural of خِلْفٌ.

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: see خُلْفٌ . It is also, as stated above, pl. of خَلْفٌ : (IB, K, TA:) and a pl. of خِلْفٌ . (TA.)
Nounخَلِيفٌ10 senses · 5 main

Core sense — a she-camel two days after giving birth; the milk after the biestings; a mountain roadgenerated

1

See خَلِيفَةٌ, in three places.

1.1

Also: one who holds back from the place, or the time, of a promise; and one who breaks a promise.

1.2

And a woman who has let her hair down behind her.

1.3

And a woman who has reached the period of one day, or two days, after having brought forth. Perhaps from the meaning that follows.

1.4he rode her on the second day after she had brought forth—رَكِبَهَا يَوْمَ خَلِيفِهَا

A she-camel in the second day after her having brought forth. Plural خُلُفٌ and خُلْفٌ; these two plurals are mentioned in the K in different places in this article, but both are correct, like رُسُلٌ and رُسْلٌ.

1.5he drew from her the milk that came after the biestings had passed away—حَلَبَهَا خَلِيفَ لِبَئِهَا
bring us the milk of your she-camel of the day after her biestings ceased—اِيتِنَا بِلَبَنِ نَاقَتِكَ يَوْمَ خَلِيفِهَا

That is, of the milking that comes a day or two days after her bringing forth.

on this sense And the milk that comes after the biestings; plural as above.

2

Applied to a garment, or a shirt: having the worn-out middle part taken out, and the [cut] edges then sewed together. مَخْلُوفٌ means the same; or a garment composed of two pieces sewed together; or, as some say, a garment pledged.

3

A ʿObeyd: the part beneath the armpit; and the خَلِيفَانِ of the camel are like the إِبْطَانِ of a man.

According to the S and the O, خَلِيفَا النَّاقَةِ means the two armpits of the she-camel; but the author of the K, following the first explanation given by A ʿObeyd, says that this is wrong, and that the meaning is the parts beneath the two armpits of the she-camel.

4the hairy male hyena of the road, or the valley, between two mountains—ذِيخُ الخَلِيفِ

And a gap between two mountains, or between two mountain-tops, of little breadth and length; or a road between two mountains; or a valley between two mountains; or a place where water pours forth between two mountains, or between two valleys, passing on into a wide tract.

And any road in a mountain (Skr), or behind a mountain, or behind a valley; or simply a road, as also مَخْلَفَةٌ, this being either in a plain or in a mountain. The plural of the former is as above.

Just as one says ذِئْبُ غَضًا.

5

And a sharp arrow; or, according to Skr, the word in this sense is حَلِيفٌ, with the unpointed ح, and this is more probably correct.

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: see خَلِيفَةٌ , in three places. Also One who holds back from the place, or time, of promise: and one who breaks a promise. (TA.) And A woman that has let down her hair behind her. (JK, O, K.) And A woman that has attained to the period of one day, or two days, after her having brought forth. (IAar.) [Perhaps from the signification next following.] A she-camel in the second day after her having brought forth: pl. خُلُفٌ and خُلْفٌ : (K, TA:) these two pls. are mentioned in the K in different places in this art., but both are correct, like رُسُلٌ and رُسْلٌ . (TA.) Hence, (TA,) one says, رَكِبَهَا يَوْمَ خَلِيفِهَا [He rode her on the second day after she had brought forth]. (K.) And The milk that is after the biestings: (AA, K:) pl. as above. (K.) One says also, حَلَبَهَا خَلِيفَ لِبَئِهَا He drew from her the milk that came after the biestings had passed away. (JK.) And اِيتِنَا بِلَبَنِ نَاقَتِكَ يَوْمَ خَلِيفِهَا , i. e. [Bring thou to us the milk of thy she-camel of the day] after the cessation of her biestings; i. e., of the milking that is after her bringing forth by a day or two days. (AA, TA.) Applied to a garment, (S, K,) or a shirt, (Msb,) Having the middle, wornout part taken out, and the [cut] edges then sewed together: (S, Msb, K *:) and مَخْلُوفٌ signifies the same; (JK;) or a garment composed of two pieces sewed together: or, as some say, this signifies a garment pledged. (TA.) Also, accord. to A 'Obeyd, The part beneath the armpit: and the خَلِيفَانِ of the camel are like the إِبْطَانِ of man: accord. to the S and the O, خَلِيفَا النَّاقَةِ signifies the two armpits of the she-camel ( إِبْطَاهَا ): but the author of the K, following the [first] explanation given by A 'Obeyd, says that this is wrong, and that the meaning is the parts beneath the two armpits of the she-camel. (TA.) And A gap between two mountains, (JK,) or between two mountain-tops, (TA,) of little breadth and length: (JK, TA:) or a road between two mountains: (S, K:) or a valley between two mountains: (K:) or a place where water pours forth (K, TA) between two mountains, or between two valleys, passing thence into a wide tract: (TA:) and any road in a mountain, (Skr, K,) or behind a mountain, or behind a valley: (TA:) or simply a road; as also مَخْلَفَةٌ ; (JK, K;) this being either in a plain or in a mountain: (TA:) pl. of the former as above. (K.) One says ذِيخُ الخَلِيفِ i. e. [The hairy male hyena] of the road between two mountains, (S, K,) or of the valley between two mountains; (K) like as one says ذِئْبُ غَضًا . (S.) And A sharp arrow: (AHn, K:) or, accord. to Skr, the word in this sense is حَلِيفٌ , with the unpointed ح ; and this is more probably correct. (TA.)
Nounخَلَافَةٌ1 sense

Core sense — the office of a successor, or vice-agentgenerated

1

See خُلْفَةٌ.

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: see خُلْفَةٌ .
Nounخِلَافَةٌ2 senses · 1 main

Core sense — the office of a successor, or vice-agentgenerated

1

The maṣdar of خَلَفَهُ in the sense: he was, or became, his خَلِيفَة.

1.1

And hence, as a simple noun: the office of خَلِيفَة.

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inf. n. of خَلَفَهُ as meaning “ he was, or became, his خَلِيفَة ” [q. v.]. (S, Mgh, Msb, K.) [And hence, as a simple subst., The office of خَلِيفَة .]
Nounخَلِيفَةٌ1 sense
maṣdarخَلَفٌ

Core sense — a successor; a vice-agent, deputy; the supreme ruler, the Caliphgenerated

1this is another Khaleefeh—هٰذَا خَلِيفَةٌ أُخْرَى

A successor; a vice-agent, vice-gerent, lieutenant, substitute, proxy, or deputy; one who has been made, or appointed, to take the place of him who has been before him. Ism fāʿil of خَلَفَهُ, maṣdar خَلَفٌ and خِلَافَةٌ; as also خَلِيفٌ. Or it may have the meaning of an ism fāʿil or that of an ism mafʿūl; and so in the sense that follows.

The supreme, or greatest, ruler or sovereign, who supplies the place of him who has been before him — particularly the successor of the Prophet, whence the English “Caliph”; as also خَلِيفٌ, which is the original form, without ة. Some disapprove of this, but it is mentioned by AHát, Ibn-ʿAbbād, and IB, and occurs in a verse of Ows Ibn-Hajar cited by IB.

The ة in the former is to denote intensiveness of meaning, as in عَلَّامَةٌ and نَسَّابَةٌ; or, as some say, لِلنَّقْلِ [that is, to move the word from the class of adjectives to that of nouns]. It is also said that the word may be an adjective whose noun has been dropped, for نَفْسٌ خَلِيفَةٌ, but this needs looking into. It is an adjective applied to a man only.

Some make it feminine and say this, though the proper way is to make it masculine.

A poet says: [Your father was a Khaleefeh, whom another Khaleefeh begat; and you are a Khaleefeh: that is perfection]

shāhid
أَبُوكَ خَلِيفَةٌ وَلَدَتْهُ أُخْرَىوَأَنْتَ خَلِيفَةٌ ذَاكَ الكَمَالُ

The plural is خَلَائِفُ, generally applied to any people that have succeeded others and supplied their places, as in the Qur'ān 10:15, like كَرَائِمُ as plural of كَرِيمَةٌ; and خُلَفَآءُ, generally applied to successors of the Prophet, because, as the word applies only to the male and has ة added, the ة is dropped in forming the plural, which is thus like ظُرَفَآءُ as plural of ظَرِيفٌ. So says ISk, and the like is said in the O; but what AHát and Ibn-ʿAbbād say does not need this straining: that is, خَلَائِفُ is the plural of خَلِيفَةٌ, and خُلَفَآءُ of خَلِيفٌ.

Or some, having regard to the original form, make the plural خُلَفَآءُ, like شُرَفَآءُ as plural of شَرِيفٌ; and this plural is masculine only, so that one says ثَلَاثَةٌ خُلَفَآءَ.

And some, having regard to the word itself as used, make the plural خَلَائِفُ; and this plural may have prefixed to it either a masculine or a feminine noun of number, so that one says ثَلَاثَةٌ خَلَائِفَ and ثَلَاثُ خَلَائِفَ, both of which are chaste.

may God be to you a supplier of the place of your father—كَانَ ٱللّٰهُ خَلِيفَةَ وَالِدِكَ عَلَيْكَ

One says the same to a person about anyone he has lost by death who cannot be replaced, such as a paternal uncle, or a mother.

Some say that the application of the title خَلِيفَةُ ٱللّٰهِ [the Vicegerent of God] is not allowable except to Adam and to David, because there is express authority in these two cases, in the Qur'ān 2:28 and 38:25; but others allow it in other cases, like سُلْطَانُ ٱللّٰهِ, جُنُودُ ٱللّٰهِ, حِزْبُ ٱللّٰهِ, and خَيْلُ ٱللّٰهِ, all of which have been heard. And Zj says that it is allowable to say of the Imáms that they are خُلَفَآءُ ٱللّٰهِ فِى أَرْضِهِ [the Vicegerents of God in his earth].

Qur’ān 10:14 approximate — somewhere between 10:1 and 10:16 Lane cites “Kur x. 15”
Qur’ān 2:30 approximate — somewhere between 2:29 and 2:55 Lane cites “Kur ii. 28”
Qur’ān 10:14 the verse Lane’s citation points to, and it uses this root
ثُمَّ جَعَلْنَـٰكُمْ خَلَـٰٓئِفَ فِى ٱلْأَرْضِ مِنۢ بَعْدِهِمْ لِنَنظُرَ كَيْفَ تَعْمَلُونَ

Then We made you heirs in the land after them, to see how ye would behave!Abdullah Yusuf Ali, The Holy Qur’ān (1934)

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A successor: and a vice-agent, vice- gerent, lieutenant, substitute, proxy, or deputy: (KL:) one who has been made, or appointed, to take the place of him who has been before him: (JK:) an act. part. n. of خَلَفَهُ , inf. n. خَلَفٌ and خِلَافَةٌ ; as also خَلِيفٌ : (TA:) or it may have the meaning of an act. part. n. or that of a pass. part. n.: and so in the sense next following: (Msb:) the supreme, or greatest, ruler or sovereign, (S, Msb, K, TA,) who supplies the place of him who has been before him; (TA;) [particularly the successor of the Prophet; whence “ Caliph, ” commonly used by English writers for “ Khaleefeh; ”] as also خَلِيفٌ , (K,) which is the original form, (Msb,) without ة ; (Msb, TA;) disapproved by some, but mentioned by AHát and Ibn-' Abbád and IB, and occurring in a verse of Ows Ibn-Hajar cited by IB: (TA:) the ة in the former is to denote intensiveness of signification, (Nh, Msb, TA,) as in عَلَّامَةٌ and نَسَّابَةٌ : (Msb:) or, as some say, لِلنَّقْلِ [i. e. for the transference of the word from the category of epithets to that of substs.]: (TA:) it is also said that the word may be an epithet of which the subst. qualified thereby is suppressed, for نَفْسٌ خَلِيفَةٌ ; but this requires consideration: (MF, TA:) it is an epithet applied to a man peculiarly: (Msb:) some make it fem.; (Fr, S, Msb, K;) saying هٰذَا خَلِيفَةٌ أُخْرَى [This is another Khaleefeh]; though the proper way is to make it masc.: (Msb:) a poet says, 1 [Thy father was a Khaleefeh, whom another Khaleefeh begat; and thou art a Khaleefeh: that is perfection]: (Fr, S:) the pl. is خَلَائِفُ [generally applied to any people that have succeeded others, and supplied their places, as in the Kur x. 15], (S, K,) like as كَرَائِمُ is pl. of كَرِيمَةٌ ; (S;) and خُلَفَآءُ [generally applied to successors of the Prophet], (S, K,) because, as it applies only to the male, and has ة added, the ة is dropped in forming the pl., which is thus like ظُرَفَآءُ as pl. of ظَرِيفٌ : (S:) thus says ISk, and the like is said in the O: but what AHát and Ibn-'Abbád say requires not this straining: (TA:) [i. e.] خَلَائِفُ is pl. of خَلِيفَةٌ ; and خُلَفَآءُ , of خَلِيفٌ : (JK:) or some, having regard to the original, make the pl. to be خُلَفَآءُ , like as شُرَفَآءُ is pl. of شَرِيفٌ ; (Msb;) and this pl. is masc. only, so that you say ثَلَاثَةٌ خُلَفَآءَ : (ISk, Msb, TA:) and some, having regard to the word itself [in its altered and used state], make the pl. to be خَلَائِفُ ; (Msb;) and this pl. may have prefixed to it either a masc. or a fem. n. of number, so that you say ثَلَاثَةٌ خَلَائِفَ and ثَلَاثُ خَلَائِفَ ; (ISk, Msb, TA;) both of which are chaste. (Msb.) You say, كَانَ ٱللّٰهُ خَلِيفَةَ وَالِدِكَ عَلَيْكَ [May God be to thee a supplier of the place of thy father]: (S, Msb: *) and in like manner you say, to a person, of any one whom he has lost by death, (S, Msb,) and who cannot be replaced; as the paternal uncle; (Msb;) or the mother. (K.) Some say that the application of the title خَلِيفَةُ ٱللّٰهِ [The Vicegerent of God] is not allowable, except to Adam and David because there is express authority in these instances [in the Kur ii. 28 and xxxviii. 25]; but others allow it in other cases, like سُلْطَانُ ٱللّٰهِ and جُنُودُ ٱللّٰهِ and حِزْبُ ٱللّٰهِ and خَيْلُ ٱللّٰهِ ; all of which have been heard: (Msb:) and Zj says that it is allowable to say of the Imáms that they are خُلَفَآءُ ٱللّٰهِ فِى أَرْضِهِ [The Vicegerents of God in his earth]. (TA.) أَبُوكَ خَلِيفَةٌ وَلَدَتْهُ أُخْرَى | وَأَنْتَ خَلِيفَةٌ ذَاكَ الكَمَالُ
Nounخِلِّيفَةٌ1 sense

Core sense — very contrary, contrariousgenerated

1

See the middle of the next entry.

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Nounخَالِفٌ9 senses · 2 main

Core sense — one who remains behind; bad, corrupt; stupid, foolishgenerated

1

See خَلْفٌ, in the earlier half of that paragraph.

1.1then stay with those who remain behind—فَٱقْعُدُوا مَعَ الخَالِفِينَ

Also: one who remains behind, or after, another, or others, in the case of a war, or a warring and plundering expedition, and in other cases. Plural خَالِفُونَ and خَوَالِفُ, the latter irregular here, though it is also said to be a regular plural of خَالِفَةٌ, and as such to mean persons who do not go forth on a warring, or warring and plundering, expedition. And خَالِفَةُ الغَازِى means one of a man's family who remains behind when he goes forth on such an expedition.

Qur'ān 9:84.

خَوَالِفُ is also the plural of خَالِفَةٌ [as feminine of خَالِفٌ], and means women remaining behind in the houses or tents; but some give it the first of the meanings explained above, and some say it means the children remaining behind.

they chose to be with the women—رَضُوا بِأَنْ يَكُونُوا مَعَ الخَوَالِفِ

Qur'ān 9:88 and 94; so it is explained by Ibn-ʿArafeh. But some say the meaning is: with the bad, or corrupt, persons, and that خوالف is here a plural of خَالِفٌ, like فَوَارِسُ.

1.2bad, or corrupt—خَالِفٌ
bad, or corrupt, and remaining behind in her abode—خَالِفَةٌ

Applied to a man.

Applied to a woman.

The former is applied to a slave as meaning bad, or corrupt; and also contrary; and in this last sense it is likewise applied to a companion.

Some of the grammarians say that there is no word of the measure فَاعِلٌ having its plural of the measure فَوَاعِلُ except خَالِفٌ, هَالِكٌ, and فَارِسٌ — but see this last.

خِلِّيفَةٌ also has this last meaning; or rather it means very contrary; as also خَالِفَةٌ, and so خِلَفْنَةٌ and خِلَفْنَاةٌ, in each of which the ن is augmentative, and each of which is applied to a man, to a woman, and to a plural number. But خِلَفْنَيَاتٌ has been mentioned as a plural of خلفناة, and as applied to males and females; and خَالِفُونَ is likewise used in this sense applied to a number of men.

1.3

Also, applied to a slave — and apparently to any man, though in that case I find it written خلف, which I believe to be a mistranscription — one who has withdrawn from the people of his house. So says Lh.

1.4the one of the people of his house in whom is no good—خَالِفَةُ أَهْلِ بَيْتِهِ

Also: stupid; foolish; or having little, or no, intellect or understanding; as also خَالِفَةٌ, but in an intensive sense, and also applied to a woman; and أَخْلَفُ, of which the feminine is خَلْفَآءُ; and خُلْفُفٌ, or خُلْفَفٌ, or both, likewise applied to a woman, as also خُلْفُفَةٌ or خُلْفَفَةٌ.

Or, as some say, خَالِفٌ means one in whom is no good; and, as also خَالِفَةٌ, one who has not what suffices; or one who often breaks his promises; or both of these mean one who has not what suffices and in whom is no good; or very contrary.

One says this of a man; also خَالِفُ اهل بيته. It also means the ungenerous; or the stupid, or foolish; or the bad, or corrupt, and the evil; and it is said to be figurative.

persons in whom is no good—قَوْمٌ خَوَالِفٌ
1.5

And a drawer of water — apparently because he leaves his family behind him — as also مُسْتَخْلِفٌ. Both are mentioned in the K, but السَّقَّآءُ is there erroneously put for المُسْتَقِى.

1.6

And weak, without appetite for food.

1.7

And flesh-meat from which a slight smell is perceived, but in the chewing of which there is no harm.

2

See also خُلْفٌ.

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: see خَلْفٌ , in the former half of the paragraph. Also One who remains behind, or after, another, (Yz, K, TA,) or others, in the case of a war, or a warring and plundering expedition, and in other cases: (TA:) pl. خَالِفُونَ (Yz, K, TA) and خَوَالِفُ , which latter is extr. [in this case], but is also said to be a [reg.] pl. of خَالِفَةٌ , and as such to signify persons who do not go forth on a warring, or warring and plundering, expedition: and خَالِفَةُ الغَازِى signifies he who remains behind, or after, him who goes forth on such an expedition, being of his family. (TA.) فَٱقْعُدُوا مَعَ الخَالِفِينَ , in the Kur [ix. 84], means Then stay ye with those who remain behind. (Yz, K. *) خَوَالِفُ is also pl. of خَالِفَةٌ [as fem. of خَالِفٌ ], (TA,) and signifies Women (K, TA) remaining behind in the houses or tents: but some assign to it the first of the meanings explained above: and some say that it means the children remaining behind. (TA.) It is said in the Kur [ix. 88 and 94], رَضُوا بِأَنْ يَكُونُوا مَعَ الخَوَالِفِ , i. e. [They chose to be] with the women: (S, K: *) thus it is explained by Ibn-'Arafeh: but some say that the meaning is, with the bad, or corrupt, persons; and that خوالف is here a pl. [of خَالِفٌ ,] like فَوَارِسُ . (TA.) For خَالِفٌ is applied to a man [as meaning Bad, or corrupt]; and خَالِفَةٌ to a woman as meaning bad, or corrupt, and remaining behind in her abode: and the former to a slave as meaning bad, or corrupt: and also contrarious: and in this last sense it is likewise applied to a companion: and some of the grammarians say that there is no word of the measure فَاعِلٌ having its pl. of the measure فَوَاعِلُ , except خَالِفٌ and هَالِكٌ and فَارِسٌ : but see this last: (TA:) and خِلِّيفَةٌ , also, has this last signification; (JK, TA;) or [rather] signifies very contrarious; (K;) as also خَالِفَةٌ ; (JK;) and so خِلَفْنَةٌ , and خِلَفْنَاةٌ , (Lh, JK, K,) in each of which the ن is augmentative, and each of which is applied to a man and to a woman and to a pl. number; (Lh, K;) but خِلَفْنَيَاتٌ has been mentioned as pl. [of خلفناة ], and as applied to males and females: (TA:) and خَالِفُونَ is likewise used in this sense applied to a number of men. (JK.) Also, applied to a slave, [and app. to any man, but in this latter case I find it written خلف , which I believe to be a mistranscription,] One who has withdrawn from the people of his house: so says Lh. (TA.) Also Stupid; foolish; or having little, or no, intellect or understanding; as also خَالِفَةٌ , (K, TA,) but in an intensive sense, and also applied to a woman; (TA;) and أَخْلَفُ , (JK, K,) of which the fem. is خَلْفَآءُ ; (JK, TA;) and خُلْفُفٌ , (K,) or خُلْفَفٌ , (L,) or both, (JK,) likewise applied to a woman, as also خُلْفُفَةٌ , (K,) or خُلْفَفَةٌ : (JK:) or, as some say, خَالِفٌ signifies one in whom is no good: and, as also خَالِفَةٌ , one who has not what suffices: or who often breaks his promises: (TA:) or both of these mean one who has not what suffices, and in whom is no good: or very contrarious. (JM.) One says that a man is خَالِفَةُ أَهْلِ بَيْتِهِ and خَالِفُ , اهل بيته , meaning The one in whom is no good, of the people of his house: (S, K:) and the ungenerous: (K:) or the stupid, or foolish: or the bad, or corrupt, and the evil: and it is [said to be] tropical. (TA.) And قَوْمٌ خَوَالِفٌ Persons in whom is no good. (JK.) And, [app. because he leaves his family behind him,] A drawer of water; (S, TA;) as also مُسْتَخْلِفٌ [q. v.]: both mentioned in the K; but السَّقَّآءُ is there erroneously put for المُسْتَقِى . (TA.) And Weak, without appetite for food. (TA.) And Flesh-meat from which a slight smell is perceived, but in the chewing of which is no harm. (Lth, TA.) See also خُلْفٌ .
Nounخَالِفَةٌ6 senses · 3 main

Core sense — a people remaining after those gone before; one of the hinder tent-polesgenerated

1

See خَلْفٌ, in the earlier half of that paragraph.

Also, particularly — or perhaps أُمَّةٌ خَالِفَةٌ only in this sense — a nation, people, or race remaining after another that has gone before. I ʿAbbād.

And one who comes to the water after him who has returned from it: Aboo-Bekr applied this name to himself, out of humility, when he was asked whether he was the Khaleefeh of the Apostle of God.

See also خَالِفٌ, in eight places; and see its plural, خَوَالِفُ, in the same paragraph, in two places.

1.1

Also, applied to a man, like خِلِّيفَةٌ as explained in the K: very contrary, or adverse, and hostile. See also خِلْفٌ.

1.2I do not know what one of mankind he is—مَا أَدْرِى أَىُّ خَالِفَةَ هُوَ

The word خالفة is here imperfectly declinable, because it is feminine and determinate, being explained by النَّاسِ; or because it is determinate and occupies the place of a plural, as one says أَىُّ تَمِيمَ and أَىُّ أَسَدَ; or rather, I think, because it is used as a proper name, as MF says (though SM disputes this), and has the sign of the feminine gender.

As also أَىُّ خَالِفَةٍ, perfectly declinable; and أَىُّ الخَالِفَةِ and أَىُّ الخَوَالِفِ; and so أَىُّ خَافِيَةَ, imperfectly declinable — in the CK اىّ خَالِفَةٍ again.

Lh says that الخَالِفَةُ, written thus with ال, means النَّاسُ.

2

Also: one of the poles of a tent of the kind called خِبَآء; or one of the poles of a بَيْت [or tent] in its hinder part.

Lh says that the خَالِفَة is the hinder part, or in the hinder part (اَخر, that is, آخِرُ or آخِرَ, apparently the latter), of a بَيْت; and one says بَيْتٌ ذُو خَالِفَتَيْنِ [apparently meaning a tent having two poles in its hinder part]. The plural is خَوَالِفُ, which is hence applied to the angles, or corners, of a بَيْت.

AZ says that the خَالِفَة of a بيت is apparently its skirt, beneath the ropes called أَطْنَاب, in the part called كِسْر; and it is also called the خياصة and the فرجة. He cites, as an example: [apparently meaning And I feared nothing until they rent open the skirts of the tent, or tents]

shāhid
مَا خِفْتُ حَتَّى هَتَكُوا الخَوَالِفَ

Or, as some say, the خَالِفَتَانِ are the two sides of a tent, its رِوَاق is its fore part, and its كِفَآء is its hinder part. See the article روق.

2.1lands that produce no plants, or herbage, except among the last of lands—خَوَالِفُ

Or خَوَالِفُ مِنَ الأَرْضِ.

3

See also خُلْفٌ.

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: see خَلْفٌ , in the former half of the paragraph. Also, particularly, [or perhaps أُمَّةٌ خَالِفَةٌ only in this sense,] A nation, people, or race, remaining after another that has gone before. (I 'Abbád, K.) And One who comes to the water after him who has returned [from it]: whence Aboo-Bekr applied this appellation to himself, from a motive of humility, when asked if he were the Khaleefeh of the Apostle of God. (IAth, TA.) See also خَالِفٌ , in eight places: and see its pl., خَوَالِفُ , in the same paragraph, in two places. Also, applied to a man, [like خِلِّيفَةٌ as explained in the K,] Very contrarious, or adverse, and inimical. (S, * K, * TA.) See also خِلْفٌ . مَا أَدْرِى أَىُّ خَالِفَةَ هُوَ , the word خالفة being here imperfectly decl., (S, K,) because of the fem. gender and determinate, being explained by النَّاسِ , (S,) or because determinate and occupying the place of a pl., like as one says أَىُّ تَمِيمَ and أَىُّ أَسَدَ , [or rather, I think, because used as a proper name, as MF, says, (though SM disputes this,) and with the sign of the fem. gender,] means I know not what one of mankind he is; (S, K;) as also أَىُّ خَالِفَةٍ , perfectly decl.; and أَىُّ الخَالِفَةِ ; and أَىُّ الخَوَالِفِ ; (K;) and so أَىُّ خَافِيَةَ ; (K, TA, [in the CK اىّ خَالِفَةٍ again,]) imperfectly decl. (TA.) Lh says that الخَالِفَةُ , writing it thus with ال , signifies النَّاسُ . (TA.) Also One of the poles of a [tent of the kind called] خِبَآء : or one of the poles of a بَيْت [or tent] in the hinder part thereof: (K:) Lh says that the خَالِفَة is the hinder part, or in the hinder part, ( اَخر , [i. e. آخِرُ or آخِرَ , app. the latter,]) of a بَيْت ; and one says بَيْتٌ ذُو خَالِفَتَيْنِ [app. meaning a tent having two poles in its hinder part]: (TA:) the pl. is خَوَالِفُ : (S, TA:) which is hence applied to the angles, or corners, of a بَيْت : AZ says that the خَالِفَة of a بيت is [app. the shirt thereof,] beneath the [ropes called] أَطْنَاب , in the [part called] كِسْر [q. v.]; and it is also called the خياصة , and the فرجة : [thus I find these two words written, without any syll. signs:] and he cites, as an ex., 1 [app. meaning And I feared not until they rent open the skirts of the tent, or tents]: (TA:) or, as some say, the خَالِفَتَانِ are the two sides of a tent, and its رِوَاق is its fore part, and its كِفَآء is its hinder part. (TA in art. روق .) مَا خِفْتُ حَتَّى هَتَكُوا الخَوَالِفَ خَوَالِفُ , (Yz, K,) or خَوَالِفُ مِنَ الأَرْضِ , (TA,) Lands that produce not plants, or herbage, save among the last of lands. (Yz, K, * TA.) See also خُلْفٌ .
Nounأَخْلَفُ10 senses · 2 main

Core sense — more, or most, given to breaking promises; leaning towards one side; left-handedgenerated

1

See خَالِفٌ, in the latter half of that paragraph.

1.1

Also: contrary, hard in disposition, as though going with a leaning towards one side; and simply leaning towards one side, applied to a camel. So says A ʿObeyd; and so As.

1.2

Also: a camel that has the sheath of his penis slit, and that will not remain stationary because of the pain; and مَخْلُوفٌ means a camel having the sheath of his penis slit in the hinder part, when he suffers a suppression of his urine because of the pressure of his hind girth on his sheath. So says El-Fezáree.

1.3

And left-handed.

1.4

And squint-eyed; synonymous with أَحْوَلُ.

1.5

According to some, a torrent; or, as some say, a river. Skr.

1.6

And a male serpent. Ibn-ʿAbbād.

All these meanings seem to have been assigned to the word as it occurs in a verse of Aboo-Kebeer El-Hudhalee, in which he likens the course of a wolf in a narrow road to the course of the أَخْلَف.

2more given to breaking promises than ʿOrkoob—أَخْلَفُ مِنْ عُرْقُوبٍ

Also: more, and most, given to breaking promises. A proverb mentioned by Meyd; ʿOrkoob was a man who made himself notorious for breaking his promises. See Freytag's Arab. Prov. 1:454.

2.1

And more, and most, disagreeing, differing, dissentient, contrary, or opposing. See an example in a proverb cited under ثِيلٌ.

2.2

And apparently: more, and most, offensive in the odour of the mouth. See Freytag's Arab. Prov. in the same place.

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: see خَالِفٌ , in the latter half of the paragraph. Also Contrarious, hard in disposition, as though going with a leaning towards one side: (K:) and [simply] leaning towards one side; applied to a camel: (S, K:) so says A'Obeyd; (S, TA;) and so As. (TA.) Also A camel that has the sheath of his penis slit, and that will not remain stationary, by reason of pain: (TA:) and مَخْلُوفٌ signifies a camel having the sheath of his penis slit in the hinder part, (JK, TA,) when suffering suppression of his urine in consequence of the pressure of his hind girth upon his sheath: so says El-Fezáree. (TA.) And Left-handed. (JK, K.) And Squinteyed; syn. أَحْوَلُ . (K.) Accord. to some, (TA,) A torrent: (K, TA:) or, as some say, a river. (Skr, TA.) And A male serpent. (Ibn- 'Abbád, K.) [All these meanings seem to have been assigned to the word as occurring in a verse of Aboo-Kebeer El-Hudhalee, in which he likens the course of a wolf in a narrow road to the course of the أَخْلَف .] [Also More, and most, wont to break promises. Hence the prov., mentioned by Meyd, أَخْلَفُ مِنْ عُرْقُوبٍ More wont to break promises than 'Orkoob: a certain man who rendered himself notorious for breaking his promises. See Freytag's Arab. Prov. i. 454. And More, and most, disagreeing, differing, dissentient, contrary, contrarious, or opposing. See an ex. in a prov. cited voce ثِيلٌ . And app. More, and most, offensive in the odour of the mouth. See Freytag's Arab. Prov. ubi suprà.]
Nounتَخَالِيفُ1 sense

Core sense — different coloursgenerated

1

Different colours.

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Different colours. (TA.)
Nounمَخْلَفٌ1 sense

Core sense — a place where people alight and staygenerated

1

See مَخْلَفَةٌ.

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: see مَخْلَفَةٌ .
Nounمُخْلِفٌ7 senses · 1 main

Core sense — a camel past the age of nine years; one who breaks his promisegenerated

1figurative · مجازone that has exceeded the بازل in age by a year—مُخْلِفُ عَامٍ

A camel that has exceeded in age the بَازِل, which is generally one that has entered its ninth year, beyond which there is no age having a word to denote it.

one that has exceeded it in age by two years—مُخْلِفُ عَامَيْنِ

Applied alike to the male and the female; and the female is also termed مُخْلَفَةٌ; or this last means a she-camel that appears, or is thought, to be pregnant and is not pregnant. The plural is مَخَالِيفُ.

1.1

See also مِخْلَافٌ.

1.2

Also: a man whose cattle have not obtained the herbage termed رَبِيع.

1.3

رَجُلٌ مُخْلِفٌ مُتْلِفٌ, or مِخْلَفٌ مِتْلَفٌ, and مِخْلَافٌ مِتْلَافٌ: see the article تلف.

1.4sleeping in the early morning, while the sun is still low, alters the mouth for the worse in odour—نَوْمَةُ الضُّحَى مُخْلِفَةٌ لِلْفَمِ

Also written مَخْلَفَةٌ, and in some copies نَوْمُ الضُّحَى, which requires the reading مَخْلَفَةٌ.

1.5having one half of his face and of his mouth turning sideways—مُخْلِفُ جَنْبٍ
1.6

See also the explanation of the verse of El-Hoteiäh cited in the last quarter of the first paragraph.

The قَطَا are termed مُخْلِفَاتٌ because they draw water for their young ones.

Qur’ānic occurrences مُخْلِف
14:47
فَلَا تَحْسَبَنَّ ٱللَّهَ مُخْلِفَ وَعْدِهِۦ رُسُلَهُۥٓ ۗ إِنَّ ٱللَّهَ عَزِيزٌ ذُو ٱنتِقَامٍ

Never think that Allah would fail his messengers in His promise: for Allah is Exalted in power, - the Lord of Retribution.

Occurrences of this form in the Qur’ān, not Lane’s choice of verse. They show the word in use; they do not say which sense above applies. Where more occur than are shown, the shortest āyāt are chosen.

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A camel that has exceeded in age the بَازِل ; [which latter is generally one that has entered the ninth year;] (S, M, K;) beyond which there is no age [having an epithet to denote it]; therefore, (TA,) one says مُخْلِفُ عَامٍ and مُخْلِفُ عَامَيْنِ [that has exceeded in age the بازل by a year and by two years]; (S, TA; [see 4;]) applied alike to the male and the female; (S, K;) and the female is also termed مُخْلَفَةٌ : (K:) or this latter signifies a she-camel that appears, (S, K,) or is thought, (A,) to be pregnant, and is not pregnant: (S, A, K:) and the pl. is مَخَالِيفُ . (TA.) See also مِخْلَافٌ . Also A man whose cattle have not obtained the [herbage termed] رَبِيع . (JK.) رَجُلٌ مُخْلِفٌ مُتْلِفٌ , or مِخْلَفٌ مِتْلَفٌ , and مِخْلَافٌ مِتْلَافٌ : see art. تلف . نَوْمَةُ الضُّحَى مُخْلِفَةٌ لِلْفَمِ , (K, TA,) also written مَخْلَفَةٌ , and in some copies نَوْمُ الضُّحَى , [which requires the reading مَخْلَفَةٌ ,] (TA,) i. e. [The sleep, or sleeping, in the period of the morning when the sun is yet low is] a cause of the mouth's becoming altered [for the worse] in odour. (K, TA.) مُخْلِفُ جَنْبٍ Having one half of his face and of his mouth turning sideways. (JK.) See also the explanation of the verse of El- Hoteiäh cited in the last quarter of the first paragraph. The قَطَا are termed مُخْلِفَاتٌ because they draw water for their young ones. (JK.)
Nounمِخْلَفٌ1 sense

Core sense — a camel past the age of nine yearsgenerated

1

See the entry before this.

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: see the next preceding paragraph.
Nounمَخْلَفَةٌ3 senses

Core sense — a place where people alight and stay; a road in Minègenerated

1

See مُخْلِفٌ.

2the roads along which the people pass in Minè—المَخْلَفُ

See also خَلِيفٌ, near the end of that paragraph.

There are three of them.

look for him in the middle road of Minè—اُطْلَبْهُ بِالمَخْلَفَةِ الوُسْطَى مِنْ مِنًى
the place where the sons of such a one alight and stay—مَخْلَفَةٌ بَنِى فُلَانٍ
the place where the people alight and stay in Minè—مَخْلَفَةُ مِنًى
3

A place in which are trees of the kind called خِلَاف.

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: see مُخْلِفٌ . See also خَلِيفٌ , near the end of the paragraph. المَخْلَفُ [as a coll. gen. n.] signifies The roads along which the people pass in Minè; (K) which are three: one says, اُطْلَبْهُ بِالمَخْلَفَةِ الوُسْطَى مِنْ مِنًى [Seek thou him in the middle road of Minè]. (TA.) And مَخْلَفَةٌ بَنِى فُلَانٍ The place of alighting, or descending and stopping or sojourning or abiding or lodging or settling, of the sons of such a one. (K, * TA.) And مَخْلَفَةُ مِنًى The place of alighting, or descending and stopping &c., of the people in Minè. (K.) A place in which are trees of the kind called خِلَاف . (S, K.)
Nounمَخْلَفَانُ البَلَدِ1 sense

Core sense — the ruler, or sovereign, of the countrygenerated

1

The ruler, or sovereign, of the country; as also مِخْلَافُهُ.

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The ruler, or sovereign, ( سُلْطَان ,) of the country; as also مِخْلَافُهُ . (TA.)
Nounمِخْلَافٌ5 senses · 2 main

Core sense — one who often breaks his promises; a province, or district, of El-Yemengenerated

1figurative · مجاز

A man who often breaks his promises; as also مُخْلِفٌ, which properly signifies simply breaking a promise, and is hence applied to a star, or an asterism, as meaning unattended with rain (see form 4), and in the same sense to clouds; or, according to Freytag's Lexicon, in this or in the contrary sense.

1.1

See also مُخْلِفٌ.

1.2

And see مَخْلَفَان.

2

Also a كُورَة [that is, a province, district, or region] pertaining to the people of El-Yemen, or in the dialect of El-Yemen; plural مَخَالِيفُ. Every مخلاف of them has a distinctive name by which it is known: the مخاليف of the people of El-Yemen are like the أَجْنَد of the people of Syria, the كُوَر of the people of El-ʿIrák, the رَسَاتِيق of the people of El-Jibál, and the طَسَاسِيج of the people of El-Ahwáz.

Or مِخْلَافٌ means a كُورَة to which a man comes; and hence the مخاليف of El-Yemen, that is, its كُوَر.

Some say there is a مخلاف in every country — so says Khálid Ibn-Jembeh — that is, a نَاحِيَة; and so one speaks of the مخلاف of El-Medeeneh and of El-Yemámeh (Khálid Ibn-Jembeh), and the مخاليف of Et-Táïf; but properly the word is peculiar to the dialect of El-Yemen.

2.1such a one was employed as collector of the poor-rates of the sons of such a one—اُسْتُعْمِلَ فُلَانٌ عَلَى مَخَالِفِ بَنِى فُلَانٍ

Also the same as بنكرد [a foreign word, and perhaps mistranscribed], that is, the poor-rate of any particular people or party, which is given by them to the poor of their own community. So says Aboo-Moʿádh.

مَخَالِفُ is its plural, as apparently is مَخَالِيفُ also, by rule, and it means the poor-rates of the Arabs.

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A man who often breaks his promises; (S, K;) as also مُخْلِفٌ : (TA:) [whence the latter (which properly signifies simply breaking a promise) is applied to a star, or an asterism, as meaning Unattended with rain: (see 4:) and in the same sense to clouds ( سَحَاب ): or, accord. to Freytag's Lex., in this or in the contr. sense.] See also مُخْلِفٌ . And see مَخْلَفَان . Also A كُورَة [i. e. province, district, or region] (S, Mgh, Msb) pertaining to the people of El-Yemen, (S,) or in the dial. of El-Yemen; (Mgh, Msb;) pl. مَخَالِيفُ ; (S, Msb;) every مخلاف thereof having a [distinctive] name whereby it is known; (S;) the مخاليف of the people of El-Yemen being like the أَجْنَد of the people of Syria and the كُوَر of the people of El-'Irák and the رَسَاتِيق of the people of El-Jibál and the طَسَاسِيج of the people of El-Ahwáz: (IB:) or مِخْلَافٌ signifies a كُورَة (JK, M, K) to which a man comes; (M;) [in any country;] and hence the مخاليف of ElYemen, (K,) i. e. its كُوَر : (TA:) some say that there is a مخلاف in every country; (Msb;) so says Khálid Ibn-Jembeh; (TA;) i. e. a نَاحِيَة [as meaning a district &c.]; (Msb;) and thus one says the مخلاف of El-Medeeneh, and of ElYemámeh, (Khálid Ibn-Jembeh, TA,) and the مخاليف of Et-Táïf: (AA, Msb, TA:) but properly it is peculiar to the dial. of El-Yemen. (TA.) Also i. q. بنكرد [a foreign word, and perhaps mistranscribed], i. e. The poor-rate of any particular people or party, which is given by them to [the poor of] their own community: so says Aboo-Mo'ádh: (L:) and مَخَالِفُ [is its pl., as also, app., مَخَالِيفُ , agreeably with rule, and] signifies the poor-rates of the Arabs; (JK, TA;) [as in the saying,] اُسْتُعْمِلَ فُلَانٌ عَلَى مَخَالِفِ بَنِى فُلَانٍ [Such a one was employed as collector of the poor-rates of the sons of such a one]. (JK.)
Nounمَخْلُوفٌ3 senses · 2 main

Core sense — affected with a looseness of the bowelsgenerated

1

See خَلِيفٌ.

1.1

And أَخْلَفُ.

2

Also: a man affected with a looseness, or diarrhoea.

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: see خَلِيفٌ : and أَخْلَفُ . Also A man affected with a looseness, or diarrhœa. (JK, TA.)
Nounمَخَالِفُ1 sense

Core sense — the parts beneath the armpits of a she-camelgenerated

1

See مِخْلَافٌ, last sentence.

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: see مِخْلَافٌ , last sentence.
Nounمَخَالِيفُ2 senses

Core sense — camels that have pastured on fresh herbs without benefitgenerated

1

The plural of مِخْلَافٌ.

2

Also: camels that have pastured upon fresh herbs, or leguminous plants, and have not fed upon dry herbage, and to which their pasturing upon the former has been of no avail.

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: pl. of مِخْلَافٌ . (S, Msb, K, &c.) Also Camels that have pastured upon fresh herbs, or leguminous plants, and have not fed upon dry herbage, and to which their pasturing upon the former has been of no avail. (IAar, TA.)
Nounقَوْلٌ مُخْتَلِفٌ2 senses · 1 main

Core sense — discordant speech, speech expressing different opinionsgenerated

1

Discordant speech; speech expressing different opinions.

Lane cites “Jel in li. 8” — a commentary, not the verse; no modern number is given
1.1roads leading in different directions—طُرُقٌ مُخْتَلِفَةٌ
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[Discordant speech;] speech expressing different opinions. (Bd and Jel in li. 8.) [ طُرُقٌ مُخْتَلِفَةٌ Roads leading in different directions.]
Nounمُسْتَخْلِفٌ2 senses · 1 main

Core sense — one who leaves another in his place and goes away to draw watergenerated

1

See خَالِفٌ, near the end of that paragraph.

1.1those going before, leaving others in their places, went away to draw water—ذَهَبَ المُسْتَخْلِفُونَ يَسْتَقُونَ

A saying mentioned by Lh.

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: see خَالِفٌ , near the end of the paragraph. ذَهَبَ المُسْتَخْلِفُونَ يَسْتَقُونَ a saying mentioned by Lh as meaning Those going before [or leaving others in their places] went away to draw water. (TA.)