عِنِّينٌ
Root: عن
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عِنِّينٌ
, of the measure فِعِّيلٌ in the sense of the measure مَفْعُولٌ, and
عَنِينٌ , [thus written in two places in the TA, and written without teshdeed in my copy of the Msb, but in the latter case app. from carelessness of the copyist, for otherwise the well-known form عِنِّينٌ is not there mentioned,] of which (i. e. of عَنِينٌ) عُنُنٌ is pl., [which seems to show that عَنِينٌ is not a mistranscription for عِنِّينٌ, for فُعُلٌ is a measure of a pl. of many epithets of the measure فَعِيلٌ, as جَدِيدٌ and نَذِيرٌ &c., but not, to my knowledge, of any word of the measure فِعِّيلٌ,] A man incapable of going in to women; one who does not go in to women by reason of impotence: or, as some say, one who has connection with her who is not a virgin, but not with the virgin: or a man who is not desirous of women: and
مَعْنُونٌ and
مُعَنٌّ and
مُعَنَّنٌ signify the same. And عِنِّينَةٌ signifies A woman not desirous of men: but there is disagreement in respect of the application of the epithet to a woman.
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