Lane's Arabic-English Lexicon

غَنَّ

Root: غن

Form: 1

Full Definition

غَنَّI , originally غَنِنَ, [sec. pers. غَنِنْتَ,] Present.T يَغِنُّ, Verbal.Noun غُنَّةٌ and غَنَنٌ, (MA, [and the same seems to be indicated in the Msb by its being said that the verb is of the class of تَعِبَ,]) or غَنٌّ, He spoke in, or from, or [rather] through, his nose, or his خَيَاشِيم [app. here meaning the innermost parts of the air-passages of the nose]. [The author of the K gives no indication of the proper signification of this verb but that of its implying what he states to be meant by غُنَّةٌ, which see below.]
2 See also 4, in two places.


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