steal, pilfer

, (S, A, Msb,) aor. , (Msb, MS,) inf. n. خَلْسٌ (Mgh, Msb, K) and خِلِّيسَى; (K;) and ↓ اختلسهُ; (S, A, Msb, K;) and ↓ تخلّسهُ; (S, TA;) He seized it, or carried it off, by force; (S, A, K;) مِنْ يَدِهِ from his hand: (A:) he took it at an opportunity, with deceit, guile, or circumvention: (TA:) or he took it hastily and openly: (Mgh:) or he snatched it at unawares; seized it hastily when its owner was unaware: (Msb:) or ↓ اِخْتِلَاسٌ denotes a quicker action than خَلْسٌ. (Lth, K.) You say also, خَلَسَهُ إِيَّاهُ [He seized it, or carried it off, from him by force; &c.]: (TA:) and الشَّىْءَ ↓ خَالَسْتُهُ I seized the thing, or snatched it away, from him. (Har p. 139.) And أَخَذَهُ خِلِّيسَى, i. e. ↓ اِخْتِلَاسًا [He took it by forcible seizure; &c.]. (TA.) خَلْسٌ is also in fighting and prostrating: and you say, طَعْنَةً ↓ اختلس [He seized an opportunity to inflict a thrust, or wound, with a spear or the like]. (TA.) And بَصَرُهُ ↓ اُخْتُلِسَ (assumed tropical:) His sight was suddenly taken away. (A * and TA in art. ملس.)

, (A, TA, *) inf. n. مُخَالَسَةٌ and خِلَاسٌ, (TA,) [He contended with him in a mutual endeavouring to seize, or carry off, the thing by force; or to take it at an opportunity, with deceit, guile, or circumvention; or to take it hastily and openly; or to snatch it at unawares: see 1 and 6.] A poet says, [app. using the verb tropically,] " نَظَرْتُ إِلَىمَىٍّ خِلَاسًا عَشِيَّةً عَلَى عَجَلٍ وَ ٱلْكَاشِحُونَ حُضُورُ " [I looked at Mei, vying with her in snatching glances, in the evening, in haste, while the secret enemies were present]. (Th, TA.) ― -b2- See also 1.

It (the hair, A, TA, and the head, [meaning the hair of the head,] AZ, S, TA) became a mixture of black and white, (S, A, TA,) in equal proportions: or more black than white: (TA:) [or mostly white: (see خَلِيسٌ:)] or partly white. (AZ.) ― -b2- [Hence,] (tropical:) It (herbage) became a mixture of fresh and dry: (S, K, TA:) or partly green and partly white, in drying up. (Az, TA.) (assumed tropical:) It (حَلِىّ [q. v.]) put forth fresh verdure. (IAar, TA.) And اخلست الأَرْضُ (assumed tropical:) The land put forth somewhat of herbage. (TA.)

see 1.

[They both contended together, each endeavouring to seize, or carry off, the thing by force; or to take it an opportunity, with deceit, guile, or circumvention; or to take it hastily and openly; or to snatch it at unawares: see 1 and 3]: (A:) the inf. n., تَخَالُسٌ, signifies i. q. تَسَالُبٌ. (S, K.) ― -b2- تخالس القِرْنَانِ, and تخالسا نَفْسَيْهِمَا, The two opponents sought to seize each other by force; &c. (T, TA.)

see 1, in five places. ― -b2- [اختلس also signifies (assumed tropical:) He slurred a vowel; i. e., pronounced it slightly: and he suppressed it altogether.]

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inf. n. of un. of خَلَسَهُ [A single act of seizing, or carrying off, by force; &c.]. (Msb.) -A2- It also occurs in a trad., where, if correctly related, it is syn. with خَلْسَةٌ. (Mgh.)

a subst. from خَلَسَهُ: (S, K:) [which may perhaps mean that it has the abstract sense of the inf. n.: and] A thing that is [seized, or carried off, by force; or taken at an opportunity, with deceit, guile, or circumvention; or ] taken hastily and openly; (Mgh;) or snatched at unawares: (Msb:) or spoil; plunder; booty; a thing taken by spoliation and force; as also ↓ خَلِيسَةٌ; which last also signifies an animal that is snatched from a beast or bird of prey and dies before it has been legally slaughtered; in consequence of which it is forbidden [to be eaten]. (TA.) Hence, لَا قَطْعَ فِى الخُلْسَةِ [There shall be no amputation (of the right hand) in the case of a thing seized, or carried off, by force; &c.]. (Mgh, Msb.) [See also an ex. voce حُذَيَّا, in art. حذى.] ― -b2- An opportunity. (S, * A, TA.) You say, هٰذِهِ خُلْسَةٌ فَٱنْتَهِزْهَا This is an opportunity, therefore do thou take it, or seize it. (A, TA.) -A2- A mixture of whiteness with blackness in the hair, (S, Ham p. 387, TA,) in equal proportions: or of more blackness than whiteness: (TA:) [or a predominance of whiteness: see خَلِيسٌ.] ― -b2- [Hence,] (tropical:) A mixture of fresh and dry portions [or green and white (see 4)] in herbage. (S, K, TA.)

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[an epithet having the sense of the pass. part. n. of خَلَسَهُ; i.e., Seized, or carried off, by force; &c.]. [Hence,] طَعْنَةٌ خَلِيسٌ A thrust, or wound, with a spear or the like, which one has seized an opportunity to inflict, by means of his skill. (TA.) -A2- A courageous man; as also ↓ مُخَالِسٌ and ↓ خَلَّاسٌ. (TA.) -A3- Also, and ↓ مُخْلِسٌ, Hair having whiteness mixed with its blackness, (A, TA,) in equal proportions: or with more blackness than whiteness: (TA:) or mostly white: (Mgh:) or partly white. (AZ, TA.) And the former, Having a mixture of whiteness with the blackness of his hair. (S, K,) ― -b2- [Hence,] the former also signifies (tropical:) Herbage drying up, or dried up, (S, K, TA,) part yellow and part green; as also ↓ مُخْلِسٌ: (TA:) or both signify having its dry and green portions intermixed: (A:) and the former signifies dry herbage, upon the lower part of which fresh has grown and mixed with the former; as also ↓ خَلْسٌ (K.) ― -b3- Also (assumed tropical:) White (أَحْمَرُ [q. v.]) whose whiteness is mixed with blackness: and so, applied to women, ↓ خُلْسٌ, (syn. سُمْرٌ, TA,) of which the sing. may be ↓ خَلْسَآءُ; or خَلِيسٌ; or ↓ خِلَاسيَّةٌ, supposing the two augments (ية TA) to be elided. (K.) ― -b4- Also (assumed tropical:) i. q. خَلِيطٌ [q. v.]. (TA.) ― -b5- And (assumed tropical:) The young one of a she-camel begotten by a stallion not prepared for her. (Sgh, TA.)