servant, attendant

, aor. (S, Msb, K) and , (Lh, K,) inf. n. خِدْمَةٌ (S, Msb, K) and خَدْمَةٌ, (Lh, K,) or, as some say, the latter is the inf. n., and the former [though generally used as the inf. n.) is a simple subst., (TA,) He served him; did service for him; ministered to him; (PS, TA;) syn. مَهَنَهُ. (TA.) And خَدَمَ بِطَعَامِ بَطْنِهِ [He served for, meaning in return for, the food of his belly]. (S and A &c. in art. وغد.) ― -b2- One says also, هٰذَا القَمِيصُ يَخْدُمُ سَنَةً (tropical:) [This shirt will serve, or last, a year]: and ثَوْبٌ سَخِيفٌ لَا يَخْدُمُ (tropical:) [A thin, or flimsy, garment, that will not serve or last, long; or that will not be serviceable]. (TA.)

He occupied, or busied, him with service. (TA.) ― -b2- خَدَّمَهَا He gave her several, or many, female servants. (Msb.) -A2- [خدّم البَعِيرَ He attached a خَدَمَة, meaning the thong thus called, upon the pastern of the camel. ― -b2- Hence,] تَخْدِيمٌ, [as inf. n. of خُدِّمَ,] in a horse, (assumed tropical:) The having a whiteness (S, Mgh, TA) such as is termed تَحْجِيل (S, TA) surrounding the pastern of each kind foot, (S, Mgh, TA,) above the أَشَاعِر [or extremities next the hoof], and stopping short of the shank; (S, TA;) but not in the fore foot. (S, Mgh, TA.) [See also خَاتَمٌ, last sentence.] When it is in one hind leg, the horse is termed أَرْجَلُ. (S, TA.) ― -b3- [Hence, also,] خَدَّمَهَا زَوْجُهَا (assumed tropical:) Her husband attired her with the خَدَمَة [or anklet]. (TA.)

He gave him a servant. (S, K, TA. [كَاخْدَمَهُ in the CK is erroneously put for فَأَخْدَمَهُ.]) And أَخْدَمْتُهَا I gave her a female servant. (Msb.) ― -b2- El-Kutb Er-Ráwendee asserts that one says, أَخْدَمْتُهُ لِنَفْسِى, peculiarly; [I made him a servant to myself;] but Ibn-Abi-l-Hadeed says, This is of the things that I know not. (TA.) [See اختدمهُ.]

He served himself; (Lh, K;) as one must do who has not a servant. (Lh.) -A2- اختدمهُ He made him a servant. (TA.) ― -b2- See also what next follows, in two places.

He asked him to give him a servant; as also ↓ اختدمهُ. (K, TA.) ― -b2- And اِسْتَخْدَمْتُهُ I asked him to serve me; (Msb, TA;) as also ↓ اِخْتَدَمْتُهُ: (TA:) [or I took him as my servant:] or I made him to serve me. (Msb) Accord. to El-Kutb Er-Ráwendee, one says, اِسْتَخْدَمْتُهُ لِنَفْسِى and لِغَيْرِى [I took him as a servant for myself and for another than myself: or I made him to be a servant to myself and to another than myself]. (TA.)

: see خَادِمٌ: -A2- and see also خَدَمَةٌ, in four places.

, (K,) or ↓ خِدْمَةٌ, (JK,) A space, or period, (سَاعَةٌ,) of the night (JK, K) or of the day: (K:) and خَذْمَةٌ [or خِذْمَةٌ, q. v.,] is a dial. var. thereof. (TA.)

a subst. signifying (assumed tropical:) The characteristic denoted by the epithet خَدْمَآءُ [fem. of أَخْدَمُ], in a sheep or goat; (JK, K, TA;) i. e. whiteness in the lower end of the shank. (JK, K,) upon blackness; (K;) such whiteness resembling the خَدَمَة, (JK, TA,) or being likened to خَدَم, or anklets: (TA:) or blackness upon whiteness: &c. (K.) [See أَخْدَمُ: and see also خَدَمَةٌ.]

, accord. to some, and inf. n. of 1: accord. to others, a simple subst. [signifying Service]. (TA.) ― -b2- [Also Pay for service: but in this sense probably post-classical.] -A2- See also خَدْمَةٌ.

A thong, (JK, S, K,) plaited, (TA,) thick and strong, like a ring, (JK, K,) which is fastened upon the pastern of a camel, (JK, S, K,) and to which is attached the سَرِيحَة [or thong] of the نَعْل [or leathern shoe with which the foot is sometimes protected], (S,) or to which are attached the سَرَايأِح [or thongs] of the نعل: (K:) [it is the n. un. of ↓ خَدَمٌ: and its pl. is خِدَامٌ; as below: in the TA, said to be tropical; but this is pro- bably a mistake: the other significations here following are all tropical:] accord. to AA, [the pl.] خِدَامٌ signifies shackles, or hobbles; syn. قُيُودٌ. (TA.) ― -b2- Hence, (S,) (tropical:) i. q. خَلْخَالٌ [meaning An anklet]; (JK, S, Mgh, K;) because sometimes made of thongs, with gold and silver affixed thereon: (S:) pl. خِدَامٌ, (S,) and [coll. gen. n.] ↓ خَدَمٌ. (Ham p. 612.) كَٱلْمَمْهُورَةٍ إِحْدَى خَدَمَتَيْهَا is a prov. [meaning (assumed tropical:) Like her who has been dowered with one of her two anklets]. (JK, TA. [See also مَهْمُورَةٌ.]) ― -b3- [And hence, (assumed tropical:) A ring of white a little above the hoof of a horse &c.] You say of a horse, لَهُ خَدَمَتَانِ مِنْ خِلَافٍ, meaning (assumed tropical:) 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 kind leg]. (TA in art. خلف.) [The coll. gen. n. ↓ خَدَمٌ is used in the Deewán of the Hudhalees, as stated by Freytag, in the sense of (assumed tropical:) A place where the colour differs, like an anklet, on the foot: and a whiteness on the foot of a bull, surrounding it like a circle: and خِدَامٌ as meaning whiteness: or, as some say, streaks (“striæ”). See also خُدْمَةٌ.] ― -b4- [Hence, also,] (assumed tropical:) The place where each foot comes forth from the trousers. (TA.) ― -b5- Also (assumed tropical:) The shank; (K;) because it is the place of the خَدَمَة, i. e. the anklet: (TA:) pl. خِدَامٌ and [coll. gen. n.] ↓ خَدَمٌ. (K.) Hence, in a trad. of Selmán, كَانَ عَلَى حِمَارٍ وَعَلَيْهِ سَرَاوِيلُ وَخَدَمَتاهُ تُذَبْذِبَانِ [He was upon an ass, and upon him were trousers, and his shanks were dangling]: or, as some say, the meaning here is, the parts from which his two feet came forth, of the trousers. (TA.) And one says, أَبْدَتِ الحَرْبُ عَنْ خِدَامِ المُخَدَّرَاتِ (tropical:) [The war made apparent the shanks, or the anklets, of the girls that had been kept behind the curtains]; meaning the war became vehement. (A, TA.) ― -b6- Also (assumed tropical:) A ring of people; (S, K;) a compact ring thereof: likened to the thong described in the first sentence of this paragraph. (TA.) Hence the saying of Khálid Ibn-El-Weleed, in a letter that he wrote to the Satraps of Persia, (TA,) الحَمْدُ لِلّٰهِ الَّذِى فَضَّ خَدَمَتَكُمْ, meaning [Praise be to God,] who hath dispersed, or broken up, your congregation: (S, * K, * TA:) for when the thong above mentioned is broken, or parted, the سَرَايأِح [or thongs of the leathern shoe] become loosed, and the shoe falls off: so says IAth, and A'Obeyd says the like. (TA.)

A thong: (K:) or a plaited thong. (TA.)

: see what next follows.