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حَنَّانٌ

Root: حن

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حَنَّانٌ One who yearns towards, longs for, or desires, a thing, and inclines to it. [Hence,] حَنَّانَةٌ A woman who remembers a former husband with yearning (الحنين) and grieving, or moaning, in tenderness for her children, when they are young, that the husband may maintain them; like أَنَّانَةٌ: or who yearns towards her former husband, and inclines to him: or who yearns towards her child, or children, by her husband who has separated from her: or a woman who yearns towards her former husband, and grieves for him: or who marries, having been divorced, and yearns towards him who has divorced her. And A bow; [because of the sound made by the twanging of its string;] accord. to AHn, as a proper name; but ISd holds it to be, when thus applied, an epithet in which the quality of a subst. is predominant: or a bow that [twangs, or] makes a sound when its string has been pulled and then let go. And عُودٌ حَنَّانٌ [A lute that produces plaintive sounds: or] that excites lively emotions of sadness, or of mirth. And سَحَابٌ حَنَّانٌ Clouds that have [or produce] a حَنِين [or moaning sound, by their thunder heard from a distance,] like the حَنِين of camels. And سَهْمٌ حَنَّانٌ An arrow that produces a sound when thou triest its sonorific quality by turning it round between thy fingers: (AHeyth, K, TA: [in the CK, نَقَرْتُهُ is erroneously put for نَقَّرْتَهُ:]) or that produces a sound when it is turned round (أُدِيرَ [or أُدِرَّ]) with the ends of the fingers upon the thumbs, by reason of the excellence and compactness of its wood. (TA. [See دَرَّ السَّهْمُ, in art. در.]) And خِمْسٌ حَنَّانٌ i. q. بَائِصٌ [A hurrying, or hard, journey in which the camels are watered only on the first and fifth days: (in the CK and a MS. copy of the K, erroneously, نابضٌ:)] i. e. in which there is a حَنِين [or yearning of the camels] by reason of its quickness; or in which the camels yearn [towards their accustomed places] (تَحِنُّ) by reason of fatigue. And طَرِيقٌ حَنَّانٌ A conspicuous road, in which the old camel becomes joyous (يَحِنُّ, i. e. يَنْبَسِطُ): or, accord. to the A, a road in which there is [heard] a حَنِين [or yearning cry] of the camels; like طَرِيقٌ نَهَّامٌ meaning a road in which is [heard] a نَهِيم [or chiding] of camels.
2 One who shows favour, or presents a favourable aspect, to him who turns from him, or shuns him.
3 Merciful, or having mercy. [Hence,] الحَنَّانُ a name of God; meaning The Merciful to his servants.


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