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خَنَّ

Root: خن

Form: 1

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خَنَّI , Present.T يَخِنٌّ, Verbal.Noun خَنِينٌ, He made a sound from the nose, like حَنِين from the mouth: he made a sound like weeping, and like laughing, in the nose: he reiterated a sound of weeping in the air-passages of the nose; and sometimes خَنِينٌ is [the reiterating a sound in the nose] from faint laughing: or he laughed faintly. [See also خَنِينٌ below.]

def.2 خُنَّ He was affected with the disease termed خُنَان: [and in like manner, a bird: see مَخْنُونٌ.]
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