خَفْضٌ

: [see خَفَضَ, (of which it is the verbal noun,) throughout.

] A state of abatement, or remissness, or the like: (A, TA:) (assumed tropical:) ease; repose; freedom from trouble or inconvenience, and toil or fatigue; tranquillity; quietness; quietude; stillness; synonym دَعَةٌ; (S, A, K;) and رَاحَةٌ; (Msb;) and سُكُونٌ; (TA;) of life: (Msb:) or ampleness of the circumstances of life; (El-Marzookee, Msb;) plentifulness and pleasantness thereof: (El-Marzookee:) softness, delicateness, or easiness: (A, TA:) pleasant life: (L:) and [in like manner] ↓ خَفِيضَةٌ, softness, delicateness, or easiness, of life; and ampleness of the circumstances thereof: (TA:) and the former, (assumed tropical:) gentleness and easiness of voice. (TA.) You say, هُمْ فِى خَفْضٍ مِنَ العَيْشِ (assumed tropical:) They are in an easy, or a tranquil, [or a plentiful and pleasant, or a soft or delicate,] state of life. (S.) [This phrase is said in the A to be tropical; but why, I do not see; since خَفْضٌ in the sense of دَعَةٌ is proper according to the same authority.] And هُوَ فِى خَفْضِ العَيْشِ (assumed tropical:) He is in an ample, and an easy, or a tranquil, state of life. (Msb.) And a poet says,

لَا يَمْنَعَنَّكَ خَفْضَ العَيْشِ فِىدَعَةٍ

نُزُوعُ نَفْسٍ إِلَى أَهْلٍ وَأَوْطَانِ

تَلْقَى بِكُلِّ بِلَادٍ إِنْ حَلَلْتَ بِهَا

أَهْلًا بِأَهْلٍ وَجِيرَانًا بِجِيرَانِ

(Ham p. 137, and Sgh;) i. e. (assumed tropical:) [Let not yearning of soul for family and homes prevent thee from enjoying] ampleness of the circumstances of life, or plentifulness and pleasantness thereof, in ease and tranquillity: [thou wilt find in every country, if thou take up thine abode in it, a family for a family, and neighbours for neighbours:] (ElMarzookee, MF:) another reading, which is preferable, though each is allowable, is نِزَاعُ in the place of نُزُوعُ. (Ham ubi suprà.)

[It is also used as an epithet; apparently for ذُو خفْضٍ.] You say, عَيْشٌ خَفْضٌ, (JK, TA,) and ↓ خَافِضٌ, (S, A, K,) and ↓ خَفِيضٌ, and ↓ مَخْفُوضٌ, (TA,) (assumed tropical:) An easy, or a tranquil, (JK, S, K, TA,) and plentiful, (JK, TA,) and soft, or delicate, (TA,) life: (JK, S, &c.:) and ↓ مَخْفِضٌ signifies the same as خَفْضٌ. (TA: there mentioned in the same place as here.) [It is said in the A, that عيش ↓ خافض is like عِيشَةٌ رَاضِيَةٌ, (meaning that it is for عَيْشٌ مَخْفُوضٌ,) and that it is tropical.]

Also (tropical:) A gentle pace; opposite of رَفْعٌ; (S, A, * K;) and so ↓ مَخْفُوضٌ; (S, * A;) opposite of مَرْفُوعٌ. (A, TA.) [See خَفَضَتِ الإِبِلُ.]

Also Low, or depressed, land: (TA:) and [in like manner] ↓ خَافِضَةٌ a low, or depressed, tract (تَلْعَةٌ مُطْمَيءِنَّةٌ) of land: (ISh, K:) رَافِعَةٌ signifying [the contr., i. e.] a hard and elevated tract of land. (ISh.)