شن

5 تَشَنَّنَتِ القِرْبَةُ ذ , and ↓ تشانّت, (S, K,) and ↓ اشنّت and ↓ استشنّت, (K,) The water-skin became old, and worn out: (S, K:) or ↓ تشانّ, said of skin, or a skin, does not signify thus, but signifies, (AA, S,) or signifies also, (K,) and so تشنّن, (S, K, TA,) said of the skin of a man, in extreme old age, (S,) it contracted, shrank, shrivelled, or wrinkled; or became contracted or shrunk &c.; (S, K, TA;) and dried up: (S, TA:) and ↓ استشنّ is likewise said of the skin of a man, meaning it became old, and worn out, like the old, and worn-out, شَنّ. (Har p. 675.) It is said in a trad., ↓ القُرْاآنُ لَا يَتْفَهُ وَلَا يَتَشَانُّ [expl. in art. تفه]. (TA.) See also a tropical usage of ↓ استشنّ in a trad. cited in the first paragraph of art. بل. ― -b2- تشنّن is also said of the skin of a man as meaning It became altered [ for the worse ] in odour, in extreme old age. (TA.)