خَبِيثٌ

opposite of طَيِّبٌ; (S, Mgh, Msb, K;) applied to objects of the senses and to those of the intellect; (Kull p. 177;) to sustenance, or victuals, and to offspring, and men, and to other things: (TA:) Bad; corrupt: (Msb, TA:) disapproved, hated, or abominable; (Msb, TA;) this according to IAar, being its primary signification: (TA:) or so in respect of taste, and of odour: (Mgh:) [nasty, nauseous, loathsome, or disgusting:] impure, unclean, foul, or filthy: (Mgh, Msb, TA:) unlawful; (Mgh, Msb;) applied in this sense to certain food: and, applied to certain beverage, injurious: (TA:) applied to medicine such as is forbidden in a certain tradition, it means either impure and unlawful, such as wine &c., or nauseous to the taste: (IAth, TA:) you say that a thing is خَبِيث in taste, [and in odour,] and in colour: and you apply this epithet to adultery, or fornication; and to property unlawfully acquired; and to blood, and to the like things which God has forbidden: (TA:) also to such things as garlic and onions (Msb, TA) and leeks, (TA,) which are disagreeable in taste and odour: (TA:) and to such things as the serpent and the scorpion: (Msb:) applied to language, it means (assumed tropical:) opprobrious, or of a reviling nature; (TA;) and (tropical:) bad or corrupt [in respect of authority; or of a bad dialect]: (A, TA:) applied to religion, (assumed tropical:) infidel, or of the nature of infidelity: (TA:) applied to a man, bad, corrupt, base, or abominable; wicked, deceitful, guileful, artful, crafty, or cunning; (S, K, TA;) as also ↓ خَابِثٌ: (K:) and an adulterer, or a fornicator: (Msb:) and a blamer, or censurer: or a slanderer, or calumniator: (Har p. 611:) [and, applied to a venomous reptile and the like, malignant, or noxious; as well as impure, unclean, foul, or filthy:] the feminine is خَبِيثَةٌ: (Msb:) the plural masculine is خِبَاثٌ (A, TA) and خُبُثٌ, for which it is allowable to say ↓ خُبْثٌ, according to the dialect of Temeem, (Msb,) and خُبَثَاءُ, (S, A, Msb, TA,) like شُرَفَاءُ [plural of شَرِيفٌ], (Msb,) and أَخْبَاثٌ, like أَشَرَافٌ [another plural of شَرِيفٌ], (Msb, MF, TA,) and خَبَثَةٌ, (Kr, Msb, MF, TA,) like ضَعَفَةٌ plural of ضَعِيفٌ, (Msb, MF, TA,) two instances of which the like can scarcely be found, (Msb,) or is not found among sound words, for سَرَاةٌ plural of سَرِىٌّ is an unsound word, (MF, TA,) and خُبُوثٌ, (AZ, TA,) which is also extr., (TA,) [and خَبَاثَى, (like as حَزَانَى is a plural of حَزِينٌ,) applied in the A, in article خنث, to خَنَاثَى, plural of خُنْثَى,] and خَبِيثُونَ [applied only to rational beings]: (Mgh:) and the plural feminine, i. e. of خَبِيثَةٌ, is خَبَايءِثُ (Msb, TA) and خَبِيثَاتٌ. (Mgh.) الشَّجَرَةُ الخَبِيثَةُ, mentioned in the Qur'an, 14:31, (TA,) means The colocynth: or the كَشُوث, (K; TA,) which is a certain plant that clings to the branches of trees and has no root in the earth; (S and K in article كشث;) [a species of cuscuta, or dodder;] or yellow عُرُوق that cling to trees: (TA in the present article:) also occurring in a tradition, as meaning the garlic-plant; and the onion; and the leek; because of their disagreeable taste and odour. (IAth, TA.) It is said in a tradition respecting the slain at Bedr, ↓ أُلْقُوا فِى قَلِيبٍ خَبِيثٍ مُخْبِثٍ They were cast into a well corrupt, and corrupting what fell into it. (TA.) ↓ خَبِيثٌ مُخْبِثٌ, (S, L,) or خَبِيثٌ and ↓ مُخْبِثٌ, (K,) and ↓ خَابِثٌ (TA) and ↓ مَخْبَثَانٌ, (S, L, K,) applied to a man, signify One who takes to himself bad, wicked, or deceitful, companions or friends (S, L, K, TA) or connexions or assistants: (TA:) or ↓ مَخْبَثَانُ, as a determinate noun, [without the article ال] is only used in calling to, or addressing, a person: (K:) you say, يَا مَخْبَثَانُ; (S;) feminine ↓ مَخْبَثَانَةُ: and to a man and woman together, يا مَخْبَثَانُ: (L, TA:) and in the phrase ↓ خَبِيثٌ مُخْبِثٌ, the former word signifies bad, wicked, or deceitful, in himself; and the latter, having bad, wicked, or deceitful, companions or friends and assistants. (A 'Obeyd, TA.) One says also, ↓ يَاخُبَثُ, meaning يا خَبِيثُ [O bad or wicked or deceitful man!]; and to a woman, ↓ يَاخَبَاثِ, (S, K,) indecl., with kesr for its termination, (S,) and يا خَبِيثَةُ. (K [according to SM: so in all the copies in his hands; but not found by him in any other lexicon: not in the CK, nor in my MS. copy of the K.]) ↓ خَبَاثِ also occurs, in a saying of El-Hasan, addressed to the present world, الدُّنْيَا. (L.) And ↓ يَا خِبْثَةُ was said by El-Hajjáj to Anas, as meaning يا خَبِيثُ: and is also used as meaning O [thou of] bad, wicked, or deceitful, qualities or dispositions! [apparently addressed to a woman, as the context seems to show; and agreeably with an assertion in Ham p. 810, that خِبْثةٌ is sometimes used in speaking of an old woman]. (L, TA.) خَبِيثُ النَّفْسِ means (tropical:) Having the soul [or stomach] heavy, [or heaving, or agitated by a tendency to vomit,] and in a disagreeable state. (TA.) And ↓ مَخْبَثَانٌ applied to a lie occurs in a trad, as meaning خَبِيثٌ apparently in an intensive sense [i. e. Very abominable]. (TA.) In the saying, أَعُودُ بِاللّٰهِ, (Mgh,) or اَللّٰهُمَّ إِنِّى أَعُودُ بِكَ, (Msb, * K, * TA,) مِنَ الخُبُثِ وَالخبَايءِثِ, (Mgh, Msb, TA,) or وَالخَبَايءِثِ ↓ مِنَ الخُبْثِ, (Msb, K, TA,) a form of words which Mohammad directed his followers to pronounce on entering a privy, or place of retirement for the relief of nature, because devils are in such a place, (Mgh, TA,) الخُبُث is plural of الخَبِيث, (Mgh, Msb, TA,) and so is الخُبْث according to the dialect of Temeem, (Msb, TA,) and الخَبَايءِث is plural of الخَبِيثَة; (Mgh, TA;;) and the meaning is, I seek protection by God, or O God, I seek protection by Thee, from the male devils and the female devils, (IAth, Mgh, Msb, K, TA,) of the genii and of mankind: (Mgh:) or, reading ↓ الخُبْث, [as a subst,] from infidelity and the devils: (Aboo-Bekr, TA:) or, [so reading, and regarding الخبايءث as plural of ↓ الخَبِيثَةُ used as a subst.,] from infidelity and acts of disobedience: (Msb, TA:) or, from wicked, or unrighteous, conduct, such as adultery and the like, and culpable actions and evil qualities or dispositions: El-Khattábee asserts that the reading الخُبْث, with the ب quiescent, is a mistake of the relaters of traditions; but En-Nawawee rejects this assertion. (TA.)