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Form 1خَاضَ المَآءَ11 senses · 1 main
maṣdarخَوْضٌ إِخَاضَهُ مُخَاوَضَةٌ خِيَاضٌmuḍāriʿيَخُوضُ

Core sense — he waded, or forded, through the water; he plunged into vain talkgenerated

1.1he waded, or forded, through the water—خَوَّضَهُ

he waded, or forded, through the water; he passed through the water walking or riding; or he entered into the water.

Maṣdar تَخْوِيضٌ; or this form has an intensive meaning, as it is said to have in a phrase below.

he walked in, or through, the water—اختاضهُ
he walked in, or through, the water—تخوّضهُ
he brought the horse to the water—خَاضَ بِالفَرَسِ

Or: he entered into the water and walked in it.

Also اخاضهُ, maṣdar إِخَاضَهُ and خاوضهُ.

he brought the horse to the water—خاوضهُ فِى المَآءِ

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they waded, or forded, through the water with their beasts—اخاضوا المَآءَ

Explained as خَاضُوهُ بِدَوَابِّهِمْ.

I waded, or forded, with them through the water—خَاوَضْتُهُمْ فى المَآءِ
the people's horses waded, or forded, through the water—اخاض القَوْمُ

Meaning with men, not with beasts.

Explained as خَاضَتْ خَيْلُهُمُ المَآءَ.

1.1.1figurative · مجازthe camels passed through the great expanse of mirage—خَاضَتِ الإِبِلُ لُجَّ السَّرَابِ
1.1.2figurative · مجازthe lightning penetrated through the darkness—خَاضَ البَرْقُ الظَّلَامَ
1.1.3figurative · مجازhe forced his way to him through the spears until he took him—خَاضَ إِلَيْهِ الرِّمَاحَ حَتَّى أَخَذَهُ
1.1.4figurative · مجازthe people entered, or waded, together into discourse—خَاضَ القَوْمُ فِى الحَدِيثِ
the people entered, or waded, together into discourse—تخاوضوا فِيهِ
1.1.5figurative · مجازhe plunged into the submerging floods of ignorance, or the like—خَاضَ الغَمَرَاتِ

Muḍāriʿ as above. Synonymous with اِقْتَحَمَهَا.

1.1.6figurative · مجاز — inferredhe entered, or plunged, into the affair—خَاضَ فِى الأَمْرِ
1.1.7figurative · مجاز — inferredhe entered, or plunged, into false, or vain, discourse—خَاضَ فِى البَاطِلِ
he entered, or plunged, into false, or vain, discourse—اخاض البَاطِلَ
he said, or spoke, what was false—خَاضَ
and we used to enter into false, or vain, discourse with those who entered into it—وَكُنَّا نَخُوضُ مَعَ الخَائِضِينَ

In the Qur 74:46; i. e. فِى البَاطِلِ, synonymous with نَشْرَعُ; or: and we used to follow the erring.

who amuse themselves in entering into false, or vain, discourse—الَّذِينَ هُمْ فِى خَوْضٍ يَلْعَبُونَ

In the Qur 52:12; فى الباطل being here again understood.

and you have entered into false, or vain, discourse, like their entering into it—وَخُضْتُمْ كَٱلَّذِى خَاضُوا

In the Qur 9:70; i. e. كَخَوْضِهِمْ.

who enter into false, or vain, discourse respecting our signs—الَّذِينَ يَخُوضُونَ فِى آيَاتِنَا

In the Qur 6:67; the signs meaning the Qur-án. This is another explanation of the phrase.

he said what was false respecting it—خَاضَ فِيهِ
confusing, or confounding, in an affair—خَوْضٌ
1.1.8he mixed, and stirred about, the beverage, or wine—خَاضَ
he mixed, and stirred about, the beverage, or wine—خوّض

Or: he stirred about the سَوِيق with the مِخْوَض.

1.1.9figurative · مجازhe moved the sword about in him, having struck him—خَاضَهُ بِالسَّيْفِ

Or: he thrust the sword into the lower part of his belly and then raised it upwards.

1.1.10figurative · مجازI put a borrowed arrow, by which I expected good luck, among the arrows used in the game of el-meysir—خُضْتُ بِقِدْحٍ فِى القِدَاحِ

also خَاوَضْتُ القِدَاحَ, maṣdar خِوَاضٌ.

For an example, a verse of Sakhr-el-Gheí, see خض.

Qur’ānic occurrences Form 1 5 shown of 7
6:68
وَإِذَا رَأَيْتَ ٱلَّذِينَ يَخُوضُونَ فِىٓ ءَايَـٰتِنَا فَأَعْرِضْ عَنْهُمْ حَتَّىٰ يَخُوضُوا۟ فِى حَدِيثٍ غَيْرِهِۦ ۚ وَإِمَّا يُنسِيَنَّكَ ٱلشَّيْطَـٰنُ فَلَا تَقْعُدْ بَعْدَ ٱلذِّكْرَىٰ مَعَ ٱلْقَوْمِ ٱلظَّـٰلِمِينَ

When thou seest men engaged in vain discourse about Our signs, turn away from them unless they turn to a different theme. If Satan ever makes thee forget, then after recollection, sit not thou in the company of those who do wrong.

9:65
وَلَئِن سَأَلْتَهُمْ لَيَقُولُنَّ إِنَّمَا كُنَّا نَخُوضُ وَنَلْعَبُ ۚ قُلْ أَبِٱللَّهِ وَءَايَـٰتِهِۦ وَرَسُولِهِۦ كُنتُمْ تَسْتَهْزِءُونَ

If thou dost question them, they declare (with emphasis): "We were only talking idly and in play." Say: "Was it at Allah, and His Signs, and His Messenger, that ye were mocking?"

43:83
فَذَرْهُمْ يَخُوضُوا۟ وَيَلْعَبُوا۟ حَتَّىٰ يُلَـٰقُوا۟ يَوْمَهُمُ ٱلَّذِى يُوعَدُونَ

So leave them to babble and play (with vanities) until they meet that Day of theirs, which they have been promised.

70:42
فَذَرْهُمْ يَخُوضُوا۟ وَيَلْعَبُوا۟ حَتَّىٰ يُلَـٰقُوا۟ يَوْمَهُمُ ٱلَّذِى يُوعَدُونَ

So leave them to plunge in vain talk and play about, until they encounter that Day of theirs which they have been promised!-

74:45
وَكُنَّا نَخُوضُ مَعَ ٱلْخَآئِضِينَ

"But we used to talk vanities with vain talkers;

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. يَخُوضُ , inf. n. خَوْضٌ (S, A, Msb, K) and خِيَاضٌ , (S, A, K,) [He waded, or forded, through the water;] he passed through the water walking or riding: (S:) or he entered into the water; (A, K;) as also خَوَّضَهُ , (K,) inf. n. تَخْوِيضٌ ; (TA;) [or this latter has an intensive signification, as it is said to have in a phrase below;] and اختاضهُ : (K:) or he walked in, or through, the water; (Msb;) as also تخوّضهُ : (TA:) or he entered into the water and walked in it, or through it. (TA.) You say also, خَاضَ بِالفَرَسِ , meaning He brought the horse to the water; as also اخاضهُ , (K,) inf. n. إِخَاضَهُ ; (AZ;) and خاوضهُ , (K,) or خاوضهُ فِى المَآءِ , inf. n. مُخَاوَضَةٌ , as in the A: (TA:) or اخاضوا المَآءَ signifies خَاضُوهُ بِدَوَابِّهِمْ [They waded or forded through the water, or entered into it, &c., with their beasts]: and you say also, خَاوَضْتُهُمْ فى المَآءِ [I waded or forded with them through the water; &c.; meaning with men, not with beasts]: (so I find in a copy of the A:) and اخاض القَوْمُ signifies خَاضَتْ خَيْلُهُمُ المَآءَ [The people's horses waded or forded through the water]. (S.) خَاضَتِ الإِبِلُ لُجَّ السَّرَابِ [The camels passed through the great expanse of mirage]. (A.) خَاضَ البَرْقُ الظَّلَامَ [The lightning penetrated through the darkness]. (A, TA.) خَاضَ إِلَيْهِ الرِّمَاحَ حَتَّى أَخَذَهُ [He forced his way to him through the spears until he took him, or it]. (A, TA. *) خَاضَ القَوْمُ فِى الحَدِيثِ , (S, A,) and تخاوضوا فِيهِ , (S, A, K,) The people, or company of men, entered [or waded] together into discourse. (S, A, K.) خَاضَ الغَمَرَاتِ , (S, K,) aor. as above, inf. n. خَوْضٌ , (TA,) He plunged into the submerging floods of ignorance, or the like; syn. اِقْتَحَمَهَا . (S, K, TA.) خَاضَ فِى الأَمْرِ He entered [or plunged] into the affair. (Msb.) In like manner you say, [ خَاضَ فِى البَاطِلِ and] اخاض البَاطِلَ He entered [or plunged] into false, or vain, discourse or speech: (Msb:) and خَاضَ , alone, signifies He said, or spoke, what was false. (A.) It is said in the Kur [lxxiv. 46], (TA,) وَكُنَّا نَخُوضُ مَعَ الخَائِضِينَ , i. e. فِى البَاطِلِ [And we used to enter into false, or vain, discourse or speech, with those who entered thereinto]; (Bd, Jel, K;) syn. نَشْرَعُ : (Bd:) or and we used to follow the erring, &c. (O, K.) And again, [lii. 12,] الَّذِينَ هُمْ فِى خَوْضٍ يَلْعَبُونَ [Who amuse themselves in entering into false, or vain, discourse or speech]; (TA;) فى الباطل being here, again, understood. (Bd.) And again, [ix. 70,] وَخُضْتُمْ كَٱلَّذِى خَاضُوا , i. e. كَخَوْضِهِمْ [And ye have entered into false, or vain, discourse or speech, like their entering thereinto]. (K.) And again, [vi. 67,] الَّذِينَ يَخُوضُونَ فِى آيَاتِنَا [Who enter into false, or vain, discourse or speech respecting our signs; meaning the Kur-án]. (TA.) خَاضَ فِيهِ is also explained as signifying He said what was false respecting it. (TA.) And خَوْضٌ signifies The confusing, or confounding, in an affair. (TA.) خَاضَ , (S, A, Mgh, K,) and خوّض , (A, TA,) also signify He mixed, (S, * K, TA,) and stirred about, (TA,) the beverage, or wine: (S, K, TA:) or he stirred about the سَوِيق with the مِخْوَض . (A, Mgh. *) خَاضَهُ بِالسَّيْفِ He moved about the sword in him, having smitten him: (S, K, * TA:) or he put [or thrust] the sword into the lower part of his belly, and then raised it upwards. (A, * TA.) خُضْتُ بِقِدْحٍ فِى القِدَاحِ , (A, TA,) inf. n. خِيَاضٌ ; and خَاوَضْتُ القِدَاحَ , inf. n. خِوَاضٌ ; (TA;) I put an arrow, (A, TA,) which I had borrowed, and by which I expected to have good luck, (TA,) among the [other] arrows (A, TA) used in the game called el-meysir: (TA:) see an ex. (a verse of Sakhr-el-Gheí) in art. خض .
Form 2خَوَّضَ3 senses · 1 main

Core sense — he waded, or forded, through the watergenerated

2.1

See form 1, first meaning.

2.1.1

See also the latter part of the article on form 1.

2.1.2[app. meaning he wallowed in his effused blood]—خَوَّضَ فِى نَجِيعِهِ

The teshdeed makes the meaning intensive.

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see 1, first signification: and again in the latter part of the paragraph. خَوَّضَ فِى نَجِيعِهِ [app. meaning He wallowed in his effused blood] is with teshdeed to render the signification intensive. (S.)
Form 3خَاْوَضَ1 sense

Core sense — he brought the horse into the water to wadegenerated

3.1

See form 1, second sentence, in two places, and again in the last sentence.

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see 1, second sentence, in two places: and again in the last sentence.
Form 4أَخَضْتُ فِى المَآءِ دابَّتِى3 senses · 2 main

Core sense — I made my beast wade, or ford, through the watergenerated

4.1the people made their horses wade, or ford, through the water—اخاض القَوْمُ خَيْلَهُمُ المَآءَ

[I made my beast wade, or ford, through the water.]

Said when they wade, or ford, with their horses through the water.

اخاض القَوْمُ and اخاضوا المَآءَ [which are evidently phrases with a word left out] and اخاض الفَرَسَ: see form 1, second sentence.

4.1.1

اخاض البَاطِلَ: see form 1.

4.2the water admitted of being walked, or waded, or forded, through—اخاض المَآءُ

Contrary to the general rule: it is intransitive while the unaugmented verb is transitive.

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[I made my beast to wade, or ford, through the water]. (S, A. *) اخاض القَوْمُ خَيْلَهُمُ المَآءَ [The people, or company of men, made their horses to wade, or ford, through the water] is said when they wade, or ford, with their horses through the water. (TA.) اخاض القَوْمُ : and اخاضوا المَآءَ : [which are evidently elliptical phrases:] and اخاض الفَرَسَ : see 1, second sentence. اخاض البَاطِلَ : see 1. اخاض المَآءُ The water admitted of being walked [or waded or forded] in or through: contr. to general rule; being intrans. while the unaugmented verb is trans. (Msb.)
Form 5تَخَوَّضَ3 senses · 1 main

Core sense — he constrained himself to wade through water; he busied himself in an affairgenerated

5.1

See form 1, first sentence.

5.1.1he constrained himself to wade, or ford, in, or through, water—تخوّض

This is the primary meaning, and from it comes what follows.

5.1.2figurative · مجازhe employed, or occupied, himself in the affair—تخوّض فِى الأَمْرِ

Also: he used art, artifice, or cunning, or his own judgment, in the affair, or in its management.

The same is said of the phrase تخوّض فى المَالِ; or, according to some, this means he acted wrongly in acquiring the property in an improper manner, in whatever way was possible.

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see 1, first sentence. تخوّض also signifies He constrained himself to wade, or ford, in, or through, water. (K, * TA.) This is the primary signification: and hence, تخوّض فِى الأَمْرِ He employed, or occupied, himself in the affair: and he used art or artifice or cunning, or his own judgment or discretion, in the affair, or in the disposal or management thereof: and so in the phrase تخوّض فى المَالِ : or, accord. to some, this means he acted wrongly in acquiring the property in an improper manner, in whatsoever way it was possible. (TA.)
Form 6تَخَاْوَضَ1 sense

Core sense — they entered, or waded, together into discoursegenerated

6.1

See form 1, near the middle of the article.

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see 1, near the middle of the paragraph.
Form 8إِخْتَوَضَ1 sense

Core sense — he waded, or forded, through the watergenerated

8.1

See form 1, first sentence.

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see 1, first sentence.

Derived nouns 3

Nounمَخَاضٌ1 sense

Core sense — a ford, a place where people wade through watergenerated

1

See مَخَاضَةٌ.

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: see مَخَاضَةٌ .
Nounمِخْوَضٌ1 sense

Core sense — an instrument with which beverage, or wine, is mixed and stirredgenerated

1

[The instrument with which beverage, or wine, is mixed and stirred about.]

For beverage, or wine, it is like the مِجْدَح for سَوِيق, or the instrument with which سويق is stirred about.

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[The instrument with which beverage, or wine, is mixed and stirred about]; it is, for beverage, or wine, like the مِجْدَح for سَوِيق : (S, K:) or the instrument with which سويق is stirred about. (A, Mgh.)
Nounمَخَاضَةٌ1 sense

Core sense — a ford, a place where people pass through water walking or ridinggenerated

1

[A ford;] a place where people pass through water, walking or riding; or a place where one walks through water.

Plural مَخَاضٌ [or this is rather a collective noun], or مَخَائِضُ, مَخَاوِضُ, and مَخَاضَاتٌ.

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[A ford; i. e.] a place where people pass through water, walking or riding: (S, A, K:) or a place where one walks through water: (Msb:) pl. مَخَاضٌ , (S, K,) [or this is rather a coll. gen. n.,] or مَخَائِضُ , (as in one copy of the S,) and مَخَاوِضُ (AZ, S, K) and مَخَاضَاتٌ . (Msb, TA.)