קְלַף, קְלֵיף ch. same Targ. Joel I, 7; a. e.—Part. pass. קָלִיף. Targ. Y. Deut. XIV, 11.—Gen. R. s. 82 (ref. to Jer. XLIX, 10) קַלְפִית בצלייה Ar. (ed. קליפת בצלים, ref. to Ob. I, 6, corr. acc.) I stripped the onions (laid bare Esau’s corruption); Yalk. Jer. 332 קְלִיפִית (not קליפות); Yalk. Chr. 1073 (corr. acc.). Gen. R. s. 95, end, v. בּוּצְלָא. Cant. R. to III, 4 (expl. חשפי שבל, Is. XLVII, 2) קְלוֹפִי סובלתא דנהרא (v. שׁוּבַּלְתָּא) lay bare (the bed of) the current of the river (dig channels to divert the river from its course). Bets. 14ᵇ קָלִיף וכ׳, v. צִיהֲרָא; a. e.—B. Bath. 4ᵇ, v. קְפַל II.
Pa. - קַלֵּף same. Targ. O. Gen. XXX, 37 (Y. קְלֵף Pe.). Ib. 38. Targ. II Kings XVIII, 16; a. e.—Part. pass. מְקַלַּף peeling, flaky. Targ. O. Ex. XVI, 14 (h. text מחספס).—Bets. 13ᵇ מְקַלְּפָא ליה וכ׳ his wife husked (barley) for him by the cupfuls. Ḥull. 62ᵇ לא … מְקַלַּף וכ׳ its craw could not be peeled.
Ithpa. - אִתְקַלַּף, אִיקַּלַּף,
Ithpe. - אִיקְּלִיף to be peeled, stripped, scraped off. Targ. Y. Lev. XI, 13 מִקְּלִיף (not מַקְ׳).—Ḥull. l. c. לא מִקְּלִיף וכ׳ could be peeled with a knife only. Y. Snh. IV, 22ᵇ top, v. מַרְקוֹעַ II. M. Kat. 13ᵇ כגון דמִיקַּלְּפָּן when the grains are husked; אי לאו … מִיקַּלְּפָא if they had not steeped them in water, the husking could not have been done (differ. in Ms. M., v. Rabb. D. S. a. l.); a. e.