فخت1 فَخَتَتْ, said of a woman, She walked with an elegant and a proud and self-conceited gait, with an affected inclining of the body from side to side. (Msb.) [See also 5.] b2:  And, said of the bird called فَاخِتَة, It [cooed, or] uttered a cry or sound. (K.) b3:  And فَخَتَ He lied, or uttered a falsehood. (A, TA. [See فَاخِتَةٌ.]) A2:  فَخَتَهُ, aor. ـَ He cut it off (K, TA) with a sword. (TA.) b2: فَخَتَ رَأْسَهُ He smote his head with a sword, (O, K, TA,) and cut it off. (TA.) b3:  فَخَتَ الإِنَآءَ, (K, TA,) inf. n. فَخْتٌ, (TA,) He uncovered the vessel. (K, TA.) b4:  And الفَخْتُ signifies also The cook's taking out with the hand a piece of flesh-meat from the cooking-pot: (K, TA:) مِنَ القِدْرَةِ, the reading found in copies of the K, [in the CK من الفِدْرَةِ,] is a mistake: it should be من القِدْرِ, as in the L [and O] &c. (TA.) 5 تفخّت He walked in the manner of the bird called فَاخِتَة: thus in the K: but in most of the lexicons تَفَخَّتَتْ: (TA:) i. e. she (a woman) walked as walks the فَاخِتَة: (A:) [or,] accord. to Lth, [in the 'Eyn,] signifying مشت مجنبحة: (TA: in the O, مَشَتْ مجنحه; and in the margin thereof, مُجَنْبِخَةً: [the right reading is مَشَتْ مُجْتَنِحَةً; thus in the JK, a lexicon founded upon the 'Eyn:] thought by him to be from the walking of the bird called فَاخِتَة: (O, * TA:) he means, she strode in her walking, and held out her arms apart from [her sides beneath] her armpits. (TA.) b2:  And He wondered, syn. تَعَجَّبَ, (O, K, TA,) and said, How good, or goodly, is he, or it! (O, TA.) And it is said of a man as signifying تعجّب فِى مِشْيَتِهِ [app. meaning He showed عُجْب, i. e. self-admiration, &c., in his gait: but I do not find this signification assigned to تعجّب]. (TA.) b3:  And He affected lying; or lied purposely; syn. تَكَذَّبَ. (A, TA.) 7 انفخت, said of a roof, It became perforated. (O, K.) فَخْتٌ The light of the moon; moonlight: (S, A, O, K:) or the light of the moon when it first appears: and hence [as some say] the derivation of فَاخِتَةٌ [as the name of a certain bird], because of its colour: (Msb: [see, however, what follows:]) you say, جَلَسْنَا فِى الفَخْتِ [as though meaning We sat in the moonlight]: (A 'Obeyd, S, O:) but Sh says, I have not heard الفِخْت except in this instance; and Aboo-Is-hák states that some one of the lexicologists says, I know not whether it be a name of the light of the moon or of its darkness: Abu-l-'Abbás says that the meaning [in the saying above mentioned] is, in the shade of the moon [i. e. in the shade of a moonlight-night; and to this the colour of the فَاخِتَة may be likened]. (TA.) A2:  Also The [snare, or trap, &c., called]فَخّ, (K, TA,) of the sportsman: (TA:) or [a thing] nearly resembling the فَخّ. (O.) A3:  and Holes, or perforations, of a round form, in a roof. (O, K.) فَاخِتَةٌ A certain well-known bird; (K;) of those having neck-rings [or collars]; (S, O;) a species of pigeon, marked with a neck-ring: (TA:) accord. to Ibn-El-Jawáleekee, (IB, TA,) the name is derived from الفَخْتُ, (IB, Msb, TA,) meaning “ the light of the moon,” (IB, TA,) or “ the light of the moon when it first appears; ”because of its colour: (Msb:) [hence, and from what will be found stated voce قُمْرِىٌّ, it seems to be a species of collared turtle-dove, of a dull white colour, marked with a black neck-ring:] or, as some say, the word is a part. n. from فَخَتَتْ signifying as expl. in the first sentence of this art.: (Msb:) the pl. is فَوَاخِتُ. (S, O, Msb.) أَكْذَبُ مِنْ فَاخِتَةٍ [More lying than a fákhiteh] is a prov.; because the cry of the فاختة resembles هٰذَا أَوَانُ الرُّطَبِ [This is the season of the fresh ripe dates]; and this it utters when the spadix of the palmtree has not yet come forth. (Meyd. [See also Freytag's Arab. Prov. ii. 383.])