خَشْخَشَةٌ
Root: خش
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خَشْخَشَةٌ
The [clashing, clattering, chinking, jingling, rattling, or rustling,] sound of arms, or weapons, and the like; as also شَخْشَخَةٌ, but this latter is a dial. var. of weak authority: and of any dry or hard thing rubbing against another such thing: accord. to IDrd, such [sound or thing ] is termed
خَشْخَاشٌ : and the [rustling] sound of a new garment or piece of cloth, when it is put in motion; as also نَشْنَشَةٌ: and [a confused sound] such as is heard to proceed from the inside of an animal on its being hit by an arrow: (JK in art. خشف:) and a motion having a sound like the sound of arms, or weapons; or an audible motion. (Mgh in art. خشف.)
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