خَنًا

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خَنًا [more properly written خَنًى, originally an Verbal.Noun,] Foul, abominable, unseemly, or obscene, speech: or the most foul, abominable, unseemly, or obscene, of speech. And خناية [written without any syll. signs, app. خَنَايَةٌ, like فَحَاشَةٌ,] is of the measure فعالة from خَنًا [and seems to be syn. therewith as an Verbal.Noun or as a subst.]: it occurs in the saying of El-Katámee, دَعُوا التَّمْرَ لَا تُثْنُوا عَلَيْهَا خنايةً فَقَدْ أَحْسَنْتَ فِى جُلِّ مَا بَيْنَنَا التَّمْرُ [Leave ye dates: speak not of them in a foul manner, or speak not of them foul speech; for dates have benefited in most of what has occurred between us, or among us].
2 خَنَا الدَّهْرِ The calamities of time or fortune.

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