خَانِعٌ
Root: خنع
Full Definition
خَانِعٌ
One who acts in a suspicious manner, or so as to induce suspicion or evil opinion; who acts vitiously, or immorally; or commits adultery, or fornication: pl. خُنُعٌ and خَنَعَةٌ. El-Aashà says,
2 One who commits a foul action whereof the disgrace returns upon him, and is ashamed of it, and hangs down his head towards the ground.
[They are the bountiful, if they be absent and if they be present; and they do not see persons acting in a suspicious manner, &c., towards their wives]. [The latter hemistich of this verse is cited in the S; in one copy of which I find يُرَوْنَ in the place of يَرَوْنَ: and it seems to be there implied that خُنُعٌ is pl. of خُنْعَةٌ; but I do not know any instance of فُعُلٌ as the measure of a pl. of a word of the measure فَعْلَةٌ.]هُمْ الخَضَارِمُ إِنْ غَابُوا وَ إِنْ شَهِدُوا وَ لَا يَرَوْنَ إِلَى جَارَاتِهِمْ خُنُعَا
2 One who commits a foul action whereof the disgrace returns upon him, and is ashamed of it, and hangs down his head towards the ground.
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