خَيْفٌ

[singular of أَخْيَافٌ]. You say, النَّاسُ أَخْيَافٌ (tropical:) Men, or the people, are different, one from another, (JK, S, A, Sgh, Msb, K, *) in their states, or conditions, (JK,) or in their forms, shapes, or semblances; (Sgh;) or of various sorts in natural dispositions, and in forms, shapes, or semblances: (L:) from خَيَفٌ signifying the “ having one of the eyes blue and the other black. ” (S. [See 1.]) And أَخْيَافٌ, (Mgh, Msb,) or إِخْوَةٌ أَخْيَافٌ, (S, K,) (assumed tropical:) Brothers who are sons of one mother but of different fathers: (S, Mgh, Msb, * K:) and in like manner, بَنُو الأَخْيَافِ, if of good authority. (Mgh.)

And hence, أَبْيَاتٌ أَخْيَافٌ (tropical:) Verses diversified by having one word thereof composed of dotted letters and another composed of letters not dotted. (Har p. 611 and 612.)

Also, the singular, Land, (ISd, TA,) or a place, (Mgh,) of which the stones are of different colours. (ISd, Mgh, TA.)

A side, region, quarter, or tract; synonym نَاحِيَةٌ. (K.)

The part that slopes down from the rugged portion of a mountain and rises from the channel in which the water flows; (S, K;) whence مَسْجِدُ الخَيْفِ [the mosque of the خيف] in Minè: (S) or an elevated place, like the خيف of Minè: (Mgh:) or the part, of a valley, that rises a little from the channel in which the water flows, and only between two mountains; and hence مسجدالخيف, originally مَسْجِدُ خَيْفِ مِنًى: (Msb:) and any declivity and acclivity at the foot of a mountain: and a white place in the black mountain that is behind Aboo-Kubeys; and hence the name of مسجدالخيف; or this is so called because it is [in] a نَاحِيَة [or side &c.] of Minè; or because it is at the foot of a mountain: (K:) plural [of pauc.] أَخْيَافٌ (TA) and [of mult.] خُيُوفٌ. (Mgh, TA.)

Also The skin of the udder: (S, K:) or the side of the udder: or the skin of the she-camel's udder: (K:) or a she-camel's udder: or the anterior part of her neck: and the skin of her podex. (JK.)