خَنَثَ
Root: خنث
Form: 1
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خَنَثَI
, Present.T
ـِ Verbal.Noun خَنْثٌ, He folded, or doubled, a skin for water or milk, and a sack. And خَنَثَ السِّقَآءَ, and فَمَ السِّقَآءِ, and السقآءِ, He doubled the skin, or the mouth of the skin, outwards, or inside-out, and drank from it; the doing of which is forbidden by Mo- hammad: when you double it inwards, you say, قَبَعْتُهُ: or خَنَثَ فَمَ السِّقَآءِ signifies he turned the mouth of the skin outsidein or inside-out: and خَنْثٌ signifies any kind of inverting, or turning upside-down or inside-out or the like.
2 [Hence, app.,] خَنَثَ لَهُ بِأَنْفِهِ [He contracted his nose at him]; as though he mocked at, scoffed at, derided, or ridiculed, him: so in the A: but in the K, خَنَثَهُ, Present.T ـِ he mocked at, scoffed at, derided, or ridiculed, him.
def.2 خَنَثٌ, Present.T ـَ Verbal.Noun خَنَثٌ; and , and تخنّث ; He affected a bending, or an inclining of his body, from side to side, and languor, or languidness; or he became bent and languid; syn. تَثَنَّى وَتَكَسَّرَ: [or he was, or became, flaccid, or flabby, and affected a bending, or an inclining of his body, from side to side: (see خَنِثٌ:) or he was, or became, effeminate: (see خُنْثٌ:)] or he was, or became, soft, delicate, tender, flabby, lax, or limber, and affected languor, or languidness; expl. by كَانَ فِيهِ لِينٌ وَتَكَسُّرٌ. 'Áïsheh, describing the death of Mohammad, says, فِى حَجْرِى, meaning He became bent and languid (اِنْثَنَى وَتَكَسَّرَ), by reason of the flaccidness of his limbs, in my bosom.
2 [Hence, app.,] خَنَثَ لَهُ بِأَنْفِهِ [He contracted his nose at him]; as though he mocked at, scoffed at, derided, or ridiculed, him: so in the A: but in the K, خَنَثَهُ, Present.T ـِ he mocked at, scoffed at, derided, or ridiculed, him.
def.2 خَنَثٌ, Present.T ـَ Verbal.Noun خَنَثٌ; and , and تخنّث ; He affected a bending, or an inclining of his body, from side to side, and languor, or languidness; or he became bent and languid; syn. تَثَنَّى وَتَكَسَّرَ: [or he was, or became, flaccid, or flabby, and affected a bending, or an inclining of his body, from side to side: (see خَنِثٌ:) or he was, or became, effeminate: (see خُنْثٌ:)] or he was, or became, soft, delicate, tender, flabby, lax, or limber, and affected languor, or languidness; expl. by كَانَ فِيهِ لِينٌ وَتَكَسُّرٌ. 'Áïsheh, describing the death of Mohammad, says, فِى حَجْرِى, meaning He became bent and languid (اِنْثَنَى وَتَكَسَّرَ), by reason of the flaccidness of his limbs, in my bosom.
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