إِنَاثٌ

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إِنَاثٌ also signifies Inanimate things; as trees and stones and wood. In the passage of the Kur mentioned above, إِنَاثًا is said to have this meaning: [or it there means females; for] Fr says that El-Lát and El-'Ozzà and the like were said by the Arabs to be feminine divinities.
2 Also Small stars.
3 And [the dual] الأُنْثَيَانِ The two testicles; syn. الخُصْيَتَانِ; or الخُصْيَانِ [which is said by some to mean the scrotum; but the former is generally, though app. not always, meant by الانثيان].
4 And The two ears: because they are of the fem. gender.
5 And The two tribes of Bejeeleh and Kudá'ah.
6 And أُنْثَيَا الفَرَسِ The inner parts (الرَّبَلَتَانِ) of the thighs of the horse.
7 And الأُنْثَي is also used to signify The [engine of war called] مَنْجَنِيق; because the latter word is [generally] of the feminine gender.

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