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حنّكهُ

Root: حنك

Form: 2

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حنّكهُII , Verbal.Noun تَحْنِيكٌ, He rubbed his حَنَك [i. e. palate, or soft palate,] so as to make it bleed: or he stuck a piece of wood, or stick, into his upper حَنَك, or the extremity of a horn, so as to make it bleed; because of something happening therein.
2 See also 1, in three places.
3 Also He turned the piece of cloth [forming part of the grave-clothing] beneath his حَنَك, i. e., the part beneath his chin. [See also المِحْنَكُ, below.]
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