tent, husk, hull

, (S, Mgh, Msb, K,) aor. , (Msb, K,) inf. n. خَبْءٌ, (S, Msb,) He hid, or concealed, it; (Mgh, Msb, K;) as also ↓ خبّأهُ, [but app. in an intensive sense, or applying to a number of things,] (K,) inf. n. تَخْبِيأَةٌ; (TA;) and ↓ اختبأهُ. (K.) ― -b2- He kept it, preserved it, guarded it, or took care of it. and ↓ خبّأهُ he did so much; and well, or carefully. (Msb.) [He laid it up; stored it, or reposited it, in a place of safety.]

see 1, in two places. [Hence, خبّأ جَارِيَةً He kept a girl carefully concealed from view: see the pass. part. n., below.]

, (K,) inf. n. مُخَابَأَةٌ, (TK,) I proposed to him as an enigma, What is such a thing? syn. حَاجَيْتُهُ. (K. [See also 8.])

It was, or became, hidden, or concealed: (Mgh:) he hid, or concealed, himself. (S.) -A2- It is also trans.: see 1. ― -b2- [Hence,] ↓ اختبأ لَهُ خَبِيْيأًا He expressed a thing enigmatically to him, and then asked him respecting it. (IDrd, K. [See also 3.])

(S, Msb, K) and ↓ خِبْءٌ (TA) and ↓ خُبْأَةٌ, of the measure فُعْلَةٌ from الخبأ [or rather الخَبْءُ], like غُرْفَةٌ and قُبْضَةٌ from الغَرْفُ and القَبْضُ, (Har p. 426,) and ↓ خَبِىْءٌ (S, K) and ↓ خَبِيْيأَةٌ, (K,) of which last the pl. is خَبَايَا, (TA,) A thing that is hidden, or concealed, (S, * Msb, K,) and absent, or unseen. (K.) [Hence,] خَبْءُ السَّمَآءِ The rain. (Th, S, K.) And خَبْءُ الأَرْضِ The plants, or herbage. (S, K.) And الأَرْضِ ↓ خَبَايَا The seed which the sower has hidden in the earth: or what God has hidden in the mines of the earth. (TA, from a trad.) الَّذِى يُخْرِجُ الخَبْءَ فِى السَّمٰوَاتِ وَالأَرْضِ, in the Kur [xxvii. 25], is held by Az to mean Who knoweth what is unseen in the heavens and the earth; agreeably with an explanation of الخَبْءُ by Fr. (TA.)

: see the next preceding paragraph.

A daughter; syn. بِنْتٌ. (K, TA. [In the CK, النَّبْتُ is put for البِنْتُ.]) Hence the prov., خَبْأَةٌ خَيْرٌ مِنْ يَفَعَةِ سَوْءٍ [A daughter is better than a grown-up boy of evil deeds]. (TA.) [In Freytag's Arab. Prov., i. 438, the first word in this prov. is written خُبَأَة, and followed by صِدْقٍ.] Aboo-Zeyd Sa'eed Ibn-Ows El-Ansáree entitled one of his books كتاب خبأة because he commenced it by mentioning خبأة in the sense of بنت, quoting the foregoing prov. in confirmation thereof. (TA.)

: see خَبْءٌ.

A woman who shows herself and then hides herself: (S, O, TA:) [like قُبَعَةٌ:] or a woman who keeps to her house, or tent. (K.)

A well-known kind of structure; (K;) [i. e.] a kind of tent, (Mgh, TA,) made of wool, (Mgh, Msb,) or of camels' fur, or sometimes of [goats'] hair, sometimes upon two poles, or three; what is above this kind being termed بَيْتٌ: (Msb:) or a tent having one pole; that which has more than one pole being termed بيت: (AZ, TA in art. ربع:) [or] also applied to a بيت [or tent] of any kind: (Towsheeh, TA voce بَيْتٌ, q. v.:) pl. أَخْبِيأَةٌ, (TA,) or أَخْبِيَةٌ: (Msb:) it is from خَبَأَهُ “ he hid it, ” or “ concealed it: ” (Mgh:) or it belongs to art. خبى: (K:) most of the lexicologists hold that its radical letters are خبى: some, that they are خبو: IDrd asserts that they are خبأ. (TA:) [See also art. خبى.] -A2- A mark made with a hot iron upon some secret part of an excellent she-camel: pl. أَخْبِيأَةٌ. (Lth, K.)

: see خَبْءٌ: and see also 8.

, and its pl. خَبَايَا: see خَبٌءٌ, in two places.