Lane's Arabic-English Lexicon

حَائِنَةٌ

Root: حين

Full Definition

حَائِنَةٌ A deadly, or destructive, calamity that befalls one: a calamity in which is الحَيْن: pl. حَوَائِنُ. [In the CK it is, in one place, erroneously substituted for حَانِيَّةٌ, as meaning “ wine. ”]


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