غُنَّةٌ

Root: غن

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غُنَّةٌ [mentioned above as an Verbal.Noun of غَنَّ but generally expl. as a simple subst. signifying A sort of nasal sound, or twang:] a sound that comes forth from the nose; a sound in, or that comes forth from, the خَيْشُوم [app. here meaning the innermost part of the air-passages of the nose]: or a sound from the لَهَاة [q. v., app. here meaning the arches, or pillars, of the soft palate, or the furthest part of the mouth,] and the nose, like [that which is heard in the utterance of] the ن of مِنْكَ and عَنْكَ, for the tongue has not part in it: or the flowing [or passage] of the speech in the لَهَاة [app. here also meaning as expl. above]: or a mixture of the sound of the خَيْشُوم [expl. above] in the pronunciation of a letter: ن is that one of the letters in which it is greatest in degree: خُنَّةٌ is [a sound] greater in degree than غُنَّةٌ.
2 [Also The roughness of the voice, of a boy, consequent upon the attaining to puberty; or, as Mtr says,] الغُنَّةُ signifies also what is incident to the boy on the occasion of his attaining to puberty, when his voice becomes rough.
3 And A soft, or gentle, plaintive, and melodious, voice, in singing. See 4.
4 And The sound [or humming] produced by the flying of flies; and [likewise] signifies the sound of flies. [See مُغِنٌّ and أَغَنُّ. And see also an ex. voce ثُنَّةٌ: and another voce عُنَّةٌ.]
5 And the poet Yezeed Ibn-El-Aawar has used it in relation to the sounding of stones: [or rather] he has so used the epithet .

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