حن

حَنَّانٌ حنان One who yearns towards, longs for, or desires, a thing, (K,) and inclines to it. (TA.) [Hence,] حَنَّانَةٌ A woman who remembers a former husband with yearning (الحنين) and grieving, or moaning, (K, TA,) in tenderness for her children, when they are young, that the husband may maintain them; like أَنَّانَةٌ: or who yearns towards her former husband, and inclines to him: or who yearns towards her child, or children, by her husband who has separated from her: (TA:) or a woman who yearns towards her former husband, and grieves for him: or who marries, having been divorced, and yearns towards him who has divorced her. (Har p. 569.) And (assumed tropical:) A bow; (K;) [because of the sound made by the twanging of its string;] accord. to AHn, as a proper name; but ISd holds it to be, when thus applied, an epithet in which the quality of a subst. is predominant: (TA:) or a bow that [ twangs, or] makes a sound (S, K) when its string has been pulled and then let go. (S.) And عُودٌ حَنَّانٌ (tropical:) [ A lute that produces plaintive sounds: or] that excites lively emotions of sadness, or of mirth. (TA.) And سَحَابٌ حَنَّانٌ (assumed tropical:) Clouds that have [or produce ] a حَنِين [or moaning sound, by their thunder heard from a distance,] like the حَنِين of camels. (TA.) And سَهْمٌ حَنَّانٌ (assumed tropical:) An arrow that produces a sound when thou triest its sonorific quality by turning it round between thy fingers: (AHeyth, K, TA: [in the CK, نَقَرْتُهُ is erroneously put for نَقَّرْتَهُ:]) or that produces a sound when it is turned round (أُدِيرَ [or أُدِرَّ]) with the ends of the fingers upon the thumbs, by reason of the excellence and compactness of its wood. (TA. [See دَرَّ السَّهْمُ, in art. در.]) And خِمْسٌ حَنَّانٌ (tropical:) i. q. بَائِصٌ [ A hurrying, or hard, journey in which the camels are watered only on the first and fifth days: (in the CK and a MS. copy of the K, erroneously, نابضٌ:)] (K, TA) i. e. (As, TA) in which there is a حَنِين [or yearning of the camels] by reason of its quickness; (As, K, TA;) or in which the camels yearn [ towards their accustomed places ] (تَحِنُّ) by reason of fatigue. (A, TA.) And طَرِيقٌ حَنَّانٌ (tropical:) A conspicuous road, (S, K, TA,) in which the old camel becomes joyous (يَحِنُّ, i. e. يَنْبَسِطُ): or, accord. to the A, a road in which there is [ heard ] a حَنِين [or yearning cry ] of the camels; like طَرِيقٌ نَهَّامٌ meaning a road in which is [heard] a نَهِيم [or chiding] of camels. (TA.) ― -b2- One who shows favour, or presents a favourable aspect, to him who turns from him, or shuns him. (K.) ― -b3- Merciful, or having mercy. (S.) [Hence,] الحَنَّانُ a name of God; (K;) meaning The Merciful (Aboo-Is-hák, Az, IAth, K) to his servants. (IAth, TA.)