شن

شَنٌّ ذ A skin, (Msb,) or a water-skin, (S, Mgh,) or a small water skin, (K,) or, as some say, any vessel made of skin, (TA,) applied by a poet to a دَلْو [or leathern bucket ], (Ham p. 602,) that is old, and worn out; (S, Mgh, Msb, K, TA;) and so ↓ شَنَّةٌ; (S, K;) 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: (MA:) and ↓ شَنَنٌ, also, signifies an old, worn-out, water-skin: (TA:) pl. (of the first, Mgh, Msb) شِنَانٌ: (S, Mgh, Msb, K:) 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: (TA:) the water in a شَنّ is cooler [than that in a skin not so old]. (Mgh.) 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. (Har p. 675.) And ↓ شَنَّةٌ signifies also (tropical:) A worn-out old woman; as being likened to the skin thus termed. (IAar, TA.) And one says, رَفَعَ فُلَانٌ الشَّنَّ, meaning (assumed tropical:) Such a man raised himself bearing upon the palm of his hand. (IKh, TA.) ― -b2- 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. (Msb.) ― -b3- [And, as Freytag states, on the authority of Meyd, (assumed tropical:) Dry herbage. ] -A2- Also Weakness. (TA.)