أَدَنُّ

Root: دن

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أَدَنُّ One whose back resembles the دَنّ; [i. e.] having a bending, or curving, in the back; applied to a man; hump-backed: (Fr, TA in art. عجر:) and having the neck and breast near [to the ground], and stooping, and low, by original natural constitution: applied to a man, and to a horse or the like, and any quadruped: or, applied to a horse, short in the fore legs: or, applied to a camel, leaning forward, with shortness of the fore legs: or, applied to a horse or the like, short in the fore legs, and consequently having his neck near to the ground: As said that no أَدَنّ ever outstripped except that of the Benoo-Yarbooa: fem. دَنَّآءُ. [See also دَنَنٌ.]
2 Also, applied to a house, or chamber, or tent, (بَيْت, [for which Golius appears to have read نَبْت,]) Low, or depressed, [app. in its roof.]

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