خ • ن • د • ق

One who makes a خَنْدَق [i. e. fosse, or moat]. (JK.)

A fosse, or moat, [such as is] dug around the walls of cities: arabicized, from كَنْدَهْ, (IDrd, K,) which is Persian: (IDrd:) pl. خَنَادِقُ. (TA.) And A valley. (TA.)

(K) and خَنْدَقَ حَوْلَهُ (TA) He dug a خَنْدَق, i. e. fosse, or moat, around it. (K, * TA.) [In the CK the words of this art. are with ذ in the place of د.]

Tall. (TA. [But perhaps this is a mistranscription for حَنْدَقُوقٌ, q. v.])