شَنٌّ

Root: شن

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شَنٌّ A skin, or a water-skin, or a small water skin, or, as some say, any vessel made of skin, applied by a poet to a دَلْو [or leathern bucket], that is old, and worn out; and so شَنَّةٌ ; but app. one that is small: (S: [in which this addition to the explanation seems to relate peculiarly to the latter word: see an ex. of this latter word in some verses cited in the first paragraph of art. سقى:]) or both signify an old water-skin; as also مِشَنٌّ : and شَنَنٌ , also, signifies an old, worn-out, water-skin: pl. شِنَانٌ: and Lh mentions the phrase قِرْبَةٌ أَشْنَانٌ, as though they applied the term شَنٌّ to every portion of the قربة and then pluralized it thus; but he says that he had not heard أَشْنَانٌ as a pl. of شَنٌّ except in this case: the water in a شَنّ is cooler [than that in a skin not so old]. It is said in a prov., لَا يُقَعْقَعُ لِى بِالشِّنَانِ [A confused and clattering noise will not be made to me with the old and worn-out water-skins to frighten me]: (S in the present art.: [in the S and K in art. قع, with مَا in the place of لا; and in the K in that art., with لَهُ in the place of لى:]) مَا يُقَعْقَعُ لَهُ بِالشِّنَانِ is applied to him who will not be abased by misfortunes, nor frightened by that which has no reality: (Sgh and K in art. قع:) or it means, he will not be deceived nor frightened: شِنَان being pl. of شَنٌّ, a dried up skin, which is shaken to a camel to frighten him. (L and TA in art. قع.) An old man is likened to the skin thus termed. And شَنَّةٌ signifies also A worn-out old woman; as being likened to the skin thus termed. And one says, رَفَعَ فُلَانٌ الشَّنَّ, meaning Such a man raised himself bearing upon the palm of his hand.
2 Also i. q. غرض [app. غَرَضٌ, i. e. A butt, at which one shoots or casts: probably because an old water-skin was sometimes used as a butt]: pl. as above.
3 [And, as Freytag states, on the authority of Meyd, Dry herbage.]

def.2 Also Weakness.

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