أَخْطَبُ

Of the colour termed خُطْبَةٌ. (K.)

An ass, (S, A, K,) i. e. a wild ass, (TA,) of a colour tinged with خُضْرَة [here meaning a dark, or an ashy, dust-colour]: (S, K:) or of a dustcolour suffused with خُضْرَة: (A:) or having a black line, or stripe, along the middle of the back: (Fr, S, K:) feminine خَطْبَاءُ, applied to a she-ass; (Fr, S;) and likewise to a she-camel. (S, A.)

See also خُطْبَةٌ.

حَمَامَةٌ خَطْبَاءُ القَمِيصِ [A pigeon of the colour termed خُطْبَةٌ]. (A.)

يَدٌ خَطْبَاءُ, (K,) and أَنَامِلُ خُطْبٌ, (TA, [خُطْبٌ being the plural,]) [A hand, and fingers' ends,] of which the darkness of the dye imparted by حِنَّاء has faded: (K, TA:) and in like manner the epithet [أَخْطَبُ] is sometimes applied to the hair. (TA.) One says also اِمْرَأَةٌ خَطْبَاءُ الشَّفَتَيْنِ [A woman pale in the lips; whose lips have lost their deep red hue]. (A.)

حَنْظَلٌ أَخْطَبُ, (K,) or ↓ خُطْبَانٌ, (S,) Colocynths that are yellow, (S,) with green stripes: (S, K:) feminine (applied to a single colocynth, which is termed حَنْظَلَةٌ, TA) خَطْبَاءُ, with which ↓ خُطْبَانَةٌ is synonym: the plural [or rather coll. gen. n.] of this last [or plural of أَخْطَبُ] is ↓ خُطْبَانٌ, and ↓ خِطْبَانٌ, which is extr. [with respect to rule]. (K.) And ↓ خُطْبَانٌ (a plural of أَخْطَبُ, JK) also signifies Green leaves of the سَمُر. (JK, K.)

الأَخْطَبُ The [bird called] شَقِرَّاق; (S, Mgh, Msb, K;) called in Persian, according to a marginal note in a copy of the S, كَاسْكِينَةْ: (TA:) or the [bird called] صُرَد; (S, Mgh, Msb, K;) because it has a mixture of black and white. (TA.)

And The صَقْر [or hawk]. (K.)

And A certain creeping thing (دُوَيْبَّة) of a green colour, longer than the locust, having six legs; called in Persian شش Pايه, and سبوشكنك. (Mgh.)