خِدَاجٌ

verbal noun of 1 in the first of the senses explained above; (S, K; *) or a simple subst. therefrom; (Msb;) or a subst. from 4 in the first of the senses explained above. (Mgh.) See also مِخْدَاجٌ.

And hence, (Msb,) (tropical:) Defect, or deficiency. (As, A, Mgh, Msb, TA.)

صَلَاةٌ خِدَاجٌ, (S, A, Mgh, K,) in which the latter word is a verbal noun used as an epithet, (A,) or for ذَاتُ خِدَاجٍ, (Mgh, TA,) (tropical:) Prayer incompletely performed; (S, A, Mgh, K;) as also ↓ مُخْدَجَةٌ and ↓ خَادِجَةٌ: (A:) applied in a tradition to prayer in which the Fátihah is not recited. (S, Mgh, TA.) And ↓ حَجٌّ إِخْدَاجٌ, in which [likewise] the latter word is for ذُو إِخْدَاجٍ, or is a verbal noun used as an epithet, (assumed tropical:) Pilgrimage incompletely performed. (Har p. 392.)

-A2- Also a plural of خَدُوجٌ. (TA.)