Lane's Arabic-English Lexicon

سَخِينٌ

Root: سخن

Full Definition

سَخِينٌ : see سُخْنٌ, in three places. [See also a saying of ' Amr Ibn-Kulthoom cited in the first paragraph of art. سخو and سخى.]
2 Also, or سَخِينُ العَيْنِ, A man whose eye is [hot, or heated, or inflamed, by weeping, or by grief or sorrow; or] hot in its tears.
3 And ضَرْبٌ سَخِينٌ, or سِخِّينٌ , A hot, [i. e.] painful, smiting. Ibn-Mukbil says, ضَرْبًا تَرَامَتْ بِهِ الأَبْطَالُ [A smiting which the brave men cast, one at another, burning, or painful: the measure (بَسِيط) requires us to read the last word thus, with tesh-deed to the خ].


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