خُنْفَسَآءُ
Root: خنفس
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خُنْفَسَآءُ
[in two copies of the S, in which it is without the article, written without tenween, but in the Msb and K it has the article prefixed, and is therefore necessarily without tenween,] and خُنْفُسَآء, which is more common, [but this I doubt, for I have found it nowhere else,] and
خُنْفَسٌ and خُنْفُسٌ and خِنْفِسٌ, which last is of the dial. of the people of El-Basrah, and خُنْفُسَةٌ and خُنْفُسَةٌ, [The black beetle: or a certain species thereof:] a well-known creeping thing; a certain insect, black, of fetid odour, smaller than the
جُعَل, found in the bottoms of walls: the first and second of these words are both applied to the male and the female: or خُنْفَسٌ is applied to the male, by some of the Arabs, and is syn. with عُنْظَبٌ and حُنْظَبٌ, and خُنْفُسٌ is not disallowable, being agree-
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