خَنًا
Root: خنى
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خَنًا
[more properly written خَنًى, originally an Verbal.Noun,] Foul, abominable, unseemly, or obscene, speech: or the most foul, abominable, unseemly, or obscene, of speech. And
خناية [written without any syll. signs, app. خَنَايَةٌ, like فَحَاشَةٌ,] is of the measure فعالة from خَنًا [and seems to be syn. therewith as an Verbal.Noun or as a subst.]: it occurs in the saying of El-Katámee,
2 خَنَا الدَّهْرِ The calamities of time or fortune.
[Leave ye dates: speak not of them in a foul manner, or speak not of them foul speech; for dates have benefited in most of what has occurred between us, or among us].دَعُوا التَّمْرَ لَا تُثْنُوا عَلَيْهَا خنايةً فَقَدْ أَحْسَنْتَ فِى جُلِّ مَا بَيْنَنَا التَّمْرُ
2 خَنَا الدَّهْرِ The calamities of time or fortune.
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