طَخَاءٌ

Also Clouds: (TA:) or high, or elevated, clouds; (A'Obeyd, Az, S, K;) as also طَهَاءٌ: (TA:) or, according to the M, thin clouds: [see also طَخْيَةٌ:] and Lth says that مِنٌ غَيْمٍ طَخَاءَةٌ signifies any round portion of cloud that excludes the light of the moon. (TA.)

And Any covering, or envelope, of a thing: one says, عَلَى قَلْبِهِ طَخَاءٌ, and طَخَاءَةٌ, Upon his heart is a covering: (M, TA:) the طَخَاء of the heart is said to be a covering thereof like that of the moon: (TA:) or طَخَاءٌ signifies كَرْبٌ, (K,) or the like thereof, (S,) [i. e. grief, or anxiety, that presses heavily,] upon the heart; (S, K;) as in the saying, وَجَدْتُ عَلَى قَلْبِى طَخَاءً [I experienced, upon my heart, grief, or anxiety, that pressed heavily]: (S:) or it signifies heaviness: or rancour, malevolence, malice, or spite. (T, TA.)