خَنِينٌ
Root: خن
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خَنِينٌ
The issuing of a sound from the nose, like
حَنِينٌ
from the mouth: [see حَنِينٌ, in two places:] this is the primary signification: and it is [the making a sound] like weeping, and like laughing, in the nose: IB says that there is a kind of خنين like weeping in the nose: or a weeping of women, or a kind of weeping, less than what is termed
اِنْتِحَابٌ: and a faint laughing. [See also 1.]
2 And Stoppages in the خَيَاشِيم [or air-passages of the nose].
2 And Stoppages in the خَيَاشِيم [or air-passages of the nose].
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