be devoted, dedicate

, (S, A, K, &c.,) aor. , (S, TA,) inf. n. خُلُوصٌ (S, A, K) and خَلَاصٌ (TA) and خَالِصَةٌ, (K,) or the second and third of these are simple substs. [used as inf. ns., i. e., quasi-inf. ns.]; (TA;) and خَلُصَ also; (Et-Towsheeh, TA;) but the former is that which is commonly known; (TA;) It (a thing, S, TA) was, or became, خَالِص, (S, A, K,) which signifies [here] clear, pure, sheer, free from admixture, unmingled, unmixed, or genuine; (B, TA;) and white. (K.) You say, خَلَصَ انمَآءُ مِنَ الكَدَرِ The water became clear from turbidness. (Msb.) And خَلَصَ الزُّبْدُ مِنَ الثُّفْلِ [The butter became clear from the dregs, or sediment,] in being cooked. (S.) ― -b2- خَلَصَ مِنَ الوَرْطَةِ, (A,) or التَّلَفِ, aor. , (Msb,) inf. n. خَلَاصٌ (A, Msb) and خُلُوصٌ and مَخْلَصٌ, (Msb,) (tropical:) He became safe, or secure, or free, from embarrassment or difficulty, or from destruction, (A, Msb,) like as a thing becomes clear from its turbidness. (A.) [See also 5.] ― -b3- خَلَصَ مِنَ القَوْمِ (tropical:) He withdrew, retired, or went away or apart, from the people, or company of men. (A, TA.) It is said in the Kur [xii. 80], خَلَصُوا نَجِيًّا (tropical:) They retired, conferring privately together. (Bd, Jel, TA.) ― -b4- خَلَصَ إِلَيْهِ, (S, A, K,) and بِهِ (TA,) inf. n. خُلُوصٌ, (K,) (tropical:) He, or it, (a thing, S, and grief, and happiness, A, TA,) came to, or reached, him: (S, A, K, TA:) he came to, reached, or arrived at, it; namely, a place. (TA.) ― -b5- Also خَلَصُوا إِلَيْهِ They came to him (namely a judge or governor) and referred to him their cause, or suit, for judgment. (T and L in art. نفذ.) -A2- خَلَصَ, inf. n. خَلَاصٌ and خُلُوصٌ; (TA;) or ↓ خلّص, (K,) inf. n. تَخْلِيصٌ; (TA;) but the former is that which is found in the correct lexicons; (TA;) He took the خُلَاصَة [q. v.] (K, TA) of, or from, clarified butter; (TA;) and ↓ اخلص, inf. n. إِخْلَاصٌ, signifies the same. (TA.) [See also this last below.]

, (A,) inf. n. تَخْلِيصٌ, (TA,) He made, or rendered, it clear or pure [&c. (see 1, first signification)]; he cleared, clarified, purified, or refined, it; (A, Mgh, TA;) [as also ↓ اخلصهُ, q. v.] ― -b2- (assumed tropical:) He separated it from another thing or other things. (Msb.) You say also خلّص بَيْنَهُمَا [He separated them, each from the other]. (M in art. قلص.) ― -b3- (tropical:) He (God, A, TA, or a man, S) saved, secured, or freed, him, (S, A, K,) مِنْ كَذَا from such a thing, (S,) [as, for instance, a snare, and embarrassment or difficulty, or destruction, like as one renders a thing clear from its turbidness, (see 1,)] after he had become caught, or entangled; (TA;) as also ↓ اخلصهُ. (TA.) Also (assumed tropical:) [He disentangled it; unravelled it:] said of spun thread that has become entangled. (Lth and Az and Sgh, in TA, art. عسر.) ― -b4- (assumed tropical:) He made it clear; or explained, expounded, or interpreted, it; as also لَخَّصَهُ. (A in art. لخص.) ― -b5- خلّص, inf. n. as above, also signifies (assumed tropical:) He gave [a man (for the verb in this case, as in others, is trans, accord. to the TK,)] the خَلَاص, (K, TA,) i. e., the equivalent of a thing, or requital, or hire for work. (TA.) -A2- See also 1, last signification.

, (S, K,) inf. n. مُخَالَصَةٌ, (TK,) (assumed tropical:) [He regarded him, or acted towards him, with reciprocal purity of mind, or sincerity: and particularly, as also خالصهُ الوُدَّ, mentioned in this art. in the A, but not explained,] (tropical:) he regarded him, or acted towards him, with reciprocal purity, or sincerity, of love, or affection; syn. صَافَاهُ (S, K, TA) and وَادَدَهُ; (TA;) فِى العِشْرَةِ [in social intercourse]. (S, TA.) You say also, خالص ٱللّٰهَ دِينَهُ (tropical:) [He acted with reciprocal purity, or sincerity, towards God, in his religion]. (A.) And one says, خَالِصِ المُوأْمِنَ وَ خَالِفِ الكَافِرَ (tropical:) [Act thou with reciprocal purity, or sincerity, towards the believer, and act thou with contrariety to the unbeliever]. (A. [See 3 in art. خلق, where a similar saying is mentioned.]) [See also the next paragraph.]

: see 2, first signification. You say, اخلص السَّمْنَ, inf. n. إِخْلَاصُ, He clarified the cooked butter by throwing into it somewhat of the meal of parched barley or wheat (سَوِيق), or dates, or globules of gazelles' dung: (S, * L:) or he took the خُلَاصَة [q. v.] of the cooked, or clarified, butter. (Fr, K.) See also 1, last signification. And أَخْلَصَتْهُ النَّارُ [The fire clarified it, or purified it,] namely, butter, and gold, and silver. (K.) ― -b2- You say also, اخلصوا النَّصِيحَةَ and الحُبَّ (tropical:) [lit. They made good advice or counsel, and love, pure, or sincere; meaning, they were pure, or sincere, in giving good advice, and in love]. (TA.) And اخلص لَهُ المَوَدَّةَ (tropical:) [He was pure, or sincere, to him in love, or affection]. (A.) And اخلص لِلّٰهِ العَمَلَ (assumed tropical:) [He was pure, or sincere, towards God in works]. (Msb.) And اخلص لِلّٰهِ الدِّينَ, (S, TA,) or دِينَهُ, (A,) (tropical:) He was pure, or sincere, towards God in religion, [or in his religion;] without hypocrisy. (S, * TA.) And اخلص لِلّٰهِ, [elliptically,] (assumed tropical:) He was without hypocrisy [towards God]. (K.) or إِخْلَاصٌ properly signifies (assumed tropical:) The asserting oneself to be clear, or quit, of [believing in] any beside God. (B, TA.) [Hence.] سُورَةُ الإِخْلَاصِ is (assumed tropical:) a title of The [112th] chapter of the Kur-án commencing with the words قُلْ هُوَ ٱللّٰهُ أَحَدٌ: (IAth, Msb:) and سُورَتَا الإِخْلَاصِ (assumed tropical:) the same together with the [109th] chapter commencing with the words يَا أَيُّهَا ٱلْكَافِرُونَ. (Msb.) And كَلِمَةُ الأِخْلَاصِ is applied to (tropical:) The sentence which declares belief in the unity of God. (A, * TA.) أَخْلَصْنَاهُمْ بِخَالِصَةٍ: see below, voce خَالِصَةٌ. ― -b3- See also 2, third signification. ― -b4- And see 10.

(tropical:) He became saved, secured, or freed; he escaped, or freed himself; or became safe, secure, free, or in a state of freedom or immunity; (S, K;) from a thing; (S;) as, for instance, a gazelle, and a bird, from a snare, (A,) [and a man from embarrassment or difficulty, or destruction, like as a thing becomes cleared from its turbidness, (see 1,) or] like spun thread when it has been entangled. (TA.) ― -b2- [See also نَسَبَ بِالْمَرْأَةِ.]

(tropical:) They regarded one another, or acted reciprocally, [with purity, or sincerity: and particularly,] with purity, or sincerity, of love, or affection. (A, * TA.)

He extracted the butter from the milk. (ADk, A, L.) ― -b2- استخلصهُ لِنَفْسِهِ He appropriated him [or it] purely to himself, (Bd and Jel in xii. 54,) exclusively of any partner: (Jel:) he chose him [or it] for himself; took him [or it] in preference for himself; (IAar, in L, art. قرح; and TA in the present art.;) he appropriated him to himself as his particular, or special, intimate; (TA;) syn. اِسْتَخَصَّهُ; (S, K, TA;) and ↓ اخلصهُ signifies the same. (TA.)

(S, A, K) and ↓ خُلْصَانٌ (S, A, TA) and ↓ خَالِصَةٌ (S, TA) (tropical:) A man's friend; [or his sincere, or true,] or his secret, or private, friend; or his companion, or associate, who converses, or talks, with him; syn. خِدْنٌ; (S, K, TA;) his particular, or special, friend: (TA:) ↓ the second is also used in a pl. sense: (S, TA:) pl. of the first, خُلَصَآءُ. (K.)

A kind of tree like the grape-vine (K) in its manner of growth, (TA,) that clings to other trees, and rises high; (K;) having leaves of a dust-colour, thin, round, and wide; and a blossom like that of the مر [?]; and tinged in the lower parts of its stems; (TA;) sweet in odour; and having berries (K) like those of [the plant called عِنَبٌ الثَّعْلَبِ, [see art. ثعلب,] three and four together, red, (TA,) like the beads of عَقِيق [q. v.]; (K;) not eaten [by men], but depastured: (TA:) n. un. with ة: (K:) thus described by [AHn] Ed-Deenawaree, on the authority of an Arab of the desert. (TA.) See the end of the next paragraph.

, (S, K,) and ذو الخُلُصَةِ, (Hishám, K,) and ذو الخَلْصَةِ, accord. to IDrd, and some write it ذو الخَلُصَةِ, but the first is the form commonly obtaining with the relaters of trads., (TA,) A certain temple, (S, K,) called كَعْبَةُ اليَمَامَةِ, (S,) or الكَعْبَةُ اليَمَانِيَّةُ, (El-Háfidh Ibn-Hajar, K,) and also الكَعْبَةُ الشَّامِيَّةُ, because its door faced Syria, (TA,) belonging to the tribe of Khath'am, (S, K,) and Dows and Bejeeleh and others, (TA,) in which was an idol called الخَلَصَةُ, (S, K,) which was demolished (S, TA) by command of Mohammad: (TA:) or ذُو الخَلَصَةِ was the idol itself, as some say; but, says IAth, this requires consideration, because [it is asserted that] ذو is not prefixed to any but generic names: (TA: [but see ذُو:]) or the temple was so called because it was the place of growth of a tree of a kind called ↓ خَلَص. (K, * TA.)

: see خِلْصٌ, in two places.

an inf. n. of 1. ― -b2- يَوْمُ الخَلَاصِ is The day of the coming forth of الدَّجَّال [or Antichrist]; because then the believers will be distinguished. (TA.) -A2- Also (assumed tropical:) An equivalent; a requital, or compensation; hire, pay, or wages, for work: pl. أَخْلَاصٌ. (TA.) ― -b2- See also خُلَاصَة.