أَعْنَانٌ

Root: عن

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أَعْنَانٌ The sides, quarters, tracts, or regions, of anything: this is the proper signification: [hence,] أَعْنَانُ السَّمَآءِ [in one of my copies of the S السَّحَابِ, but altered from السَّمَآءِ,] means The sides, quarters, tracts, or regions, of the sky: or the surfaces thereof, and what present themselves to view of the sides, quarters, tracts, or regions, thereof; as though pl. of , or of عَنٌّ : the vulgar say عِنَانُ السَّمَآءِ.
2 And [it is said that] أَعْنَانُ الشَّيَاطِينِ means The natural dispositions of the devils. It is said of camels, in a trad., خُلِقَتْ مِنْ أَعْنَانِ الشَّيَاطِينِ [as though meaning They are created of the natural dispositions of the devils]: and in another trad., أَعْنَانُ الشَّيَاطِينِ occurs as said [app. by Mohammad] in answer to a question respecting camels: [but] accord. to IAth, the meaning seems to be, that, by reason of their many evil affections, they are as though they were from the tracts of the devil in respect of their natural dispositions.

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