خَائِنٌ
Root: خون
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خَائِنٌ
and
خَائِنَةٌ , the latter an intensive epithet, like عَلَّامَةٌ and نَسَّابَةٌ, [and also fem. of خَائِنٌ,] and
خَؤُونٌ and
خَوَّانٌ , [which are likewise intensive epithets,] Unfaithful, or acting unfaithfully, to the confidence, or trust, reposed in him; [treacherous, perfidious, or unfaithful; or acting treacherously, perfidiously, or unfaithfully: thus the first signifies: the others signifying very un faithful, &c.:] pl. [of the first] خَوَنَةٌ, which is anomalous, like حَوَكَةٌ [pl. of حَائِكٌ], and خُوَّانٌ. [Hence,] خَائِنٌ
النَّظَرِ
Looking treacherously, and clandestinely, at a thing at which it is not allowable to look.
2 خَائِنُ العَيْنِ
2 خَائِنُ العَيْنِ
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