اخطأ
1.
, verbal noun إِخْطَاءٌ and خَاطِيءَةٌ: see 1, in eight places. أَخْطَيْتُ, for أَخْطَأْتُ, should not be said: (S:) it is a word of weak authority; or a mispronunciation: (K:) but some use it; (S, Sgh, TA;) because a change of this kind is generally allowed by some of the writers on inflection. (TA.) See also 5.
2.
اخطأهُ, (S, K,) which signifies, He [or it] missed, or failed of hitting, it [or him], (TA,) and ↓تخاطأهُ (S, K) and ↓تخطّأهُ (K) and لَهُ ↓تخطّأ (TA) [and ↓خَطِيءَهُ, as will be seen from what follows,] are synonym (S, K, TA.) [See also 2, last sentence.] You say, اخطأ الرَّامِى الغَرَضَ
The archer, or thrower, missed the mark; or failed of hitting it. (TA.) And اخطأهُ السَّهْمُ
The arrow [missed it, or him, or] passed beyond it, or him: and you may also say, أَخْطَاهُ, suppressing the ء (Msb.) And اخطأ
الطَّرِيقَ [He missed the way; or] he deviated from the way. (TA.) And اخطأ نَوْوءُهُ [(assumed tropical:) His star, or asterism, missed]; said of him who has sought an object of want and not succeeded in attaining it: (TA:) and to a person in this case one says, اخطأ نَوْوءُكَ [(assumed tropical:) Thy star, or asterism, has missed]. (Mgh. [See also 2.]) And اخطأهُ
The right, or due, was, or became, [out of his reach,] or far from him. (Msb.) Owfà Ibn-Matar ElMázinee says,
[meaning The arrows missed his bowels]. (S.) And AO, (S,) or A' Obeyd, (TA,) says that ↓خَطِيءَ and اخطأ are synonym; citing, as an example, the saying of Imra-el-Keys,النَّبْلُ أَحْشَاءَهُ↓تَخَاطَأَتِ
(S, TA,) meaning [O the grief of Hind,] when they (the troop of horse) missed the sons of Káhil; (TA;) خطيءن being here used in the sense of أَخْطَأْنَ, (S, TA,) which latter, according to Az, is the more proper in this case. (TA.)يَا لَهْفَ هِنْدٍ إِذْ خَطِيءْنَ كَاهِلَا
3.
مَا أَخْطَأَهُ is an expression of wonder [meaning How sinful, or criminal, or intentionally-disobedient, or intentionally-wrongdoing, is he !] from خَطِيءَ, not from أَخْطَأَ. (S.)