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أَخْنَثُ

Root: خنث

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أَخْنَثُ [More effeminate, or more incapable of venery, than Delál]: a prov. Delál was a certain man of El-Medeeneh, who was made a eunuch, together with several other مُخَنَّثُون. (TA in art. دل. [See Freytag's Arab. Prov. i. 451; where the name is erroneously written دَلَّال.])
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