خُنْثٌ
Root: خنث
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خُنْثٌ
a subst. from اِنْخَنَثَ [An affectation of a bending, or of an inclining of the body, from side to side, and of languor, or languidness; or a bending and languidness: or flaccidity or flabbiness, and an affectation of a bending, or of an inclining of the body, from side to side: or effeminacy: or softness, delicacy, tenderness, flabbiness, laxness, or limberness, and an affectation of languor, or languidness]: as also
خِنَاثَةٌ . Jereer says,
[Dost thou threaten me, thou being a Mujáshi'ee? I see, in the softness and weakness of thy beard, or in the bending and languidness, or the effeminacy, of thy person, an evidence of unsoundness, uncompactness, or weakness].أَتُوعِدُنِى وَ أَنْتَ مُجَاشِعِىٌّ أَرَى فِى خُنْثِ لِحْيَتِكَ ٱضْطِرَابَا
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