أَغَنُّ

Root: غن

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أَغَنُّ One who speaks [with a nasal sound, or twang, i. e.] in [or rather through] his nose; who speaks from his خَيَاشِيم [app. here meaning the innermost parts of the airpassages of the nose]: or, accord. to AZ, whose speech flows, or passes forth, in his لَهَاة [app. (as expl. voce غُنَّةٌ) the arches, or pillars, of the soft palate, or the furthest part of the mouth]: fem. غَنَّآءُ, applied to a woman.
2 It is also applied to a gazelle (ظَبْىٌ), meaning Whose cry issues from his خَيَاشِيم [expl. above]: J has erred in saying that it is applied to طَيْر [i. e. birds, or flying things]: or if by طير he mean flies (ذُبَابٌ), his saying thus is not a mistake, for it is applied to them [as meaning making a humming sound].
3 [Hence,] وَادٍ أَغَنُّ A valley abounding with herbs or herbage: for to such the flies constantly keep, and in their sounds is a غُنَّة. (S. [See also مُغِنٌّ.]) And one says رَوْضَةٌ غَنَّآءُ i. e. [A meadow, or garden,] abounding with herbs or herbage: or in which the winds pass with a sound that is not clear, [i. e. with a confused, humming, or murmuring, sound,] by reason of the denseness of its herbs or herbage. And [for the same reason one says] عُشْبٌ أَغَنُّ Herbs, or herbage, tall, full-grown, or of full height, and in blossom.
4 And قَرْيَةٌ غَنَّآءُ [A town, or village,] abounding with inhabitants and buildings and herbs or herbage [so that in it is heard the hum of men and women and of flies &c.].
5 حَرْفٌ أَغْنُّ means A letter from [the utterance of] which results what is termed غُنَّة [i. e. the nasal sound thus termed].
6 See also غُنَّةٌ, last sentence.

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