شِنْشِنَةٌ
Root: شن
Full Definition
[A natural disposition, or a habit, which I know, as inherited from Akhzam]: or, accord. to one relation, نِشْنِشَةٌ, which is app. formed by transposition from شِنْشِنَةٌ: a prov.: [of its origin there are different explanations: see Freytag's Arab. Prov. i. 658, and Har pp. 591 and 596:] أَخْزَمُ is the proper name of a man: or accord. to Lth, it is an epithet applied to a penis; one says كَمَرَةٌ خَزْمَآءُ “ a glans of a penis having a short frænum, ” and ذَكَرٌ أَخْزَمُ; and شنشنة means the dropping of water [i. e., in this case, of the seminal fluid]: the prov. is applied in relation to nearness of resemblance.شِنْشِنَةٌ أَعْرِفُهَا مِنْ أَخْزَمْ
def.2 Also A bit of flesh-meat, as much as is chewed at once; syn. مُضْغَةٌ: or a piece of flesh-meat; and so نِشْنِشَةٌ: on the authority of AA.
2 And [the pl.] شَنَاشِنُ signifies Bones; like سَنَاسِنُ. (IAar, L in art. سن.)
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