خَيْطَفٌ

, (K,) or ↓ خَطِيفٌ, (S, [so in my copies,]) (assumed tropical:) A quick, or swift, camel; (S, K, TA;) as though he strained, or stretched, his neck, in going along: (S: [see 8:]) and the former, (assumed tropical:) a camel of the [excellent and swift] kind called مَهَارِىّ: plural خَيَاطِفُ. (TA.)

خَيْطَفٌ, (TA,) or ↓ خَطَفَى, (JK,) [as meaning (assumed tropical:) Quick,] is also applied to [the pace termed] عَنَقٌ; (JK, TA;) and so ↓ خَيْطَفَى. (JK.)

See also خَطَفَى.