خنع

1 خَنَعَ اـِلَيْهِ خنع اليه خنع الية , and لَهُ, (ISd,) [aor. خَنَعَ ,] inf. n. خُنُوعٌ (S, ISd, K) and خَنْعٌ; (ISd;) [and app. خَنِعَ, aor. خَنَعَ , inf. n. خَنَعٌ; (see خَنَعٌ, below; and خَنِعٌ;)] He was, or became, lowly, humble, or submissive, (S, ISd, K,) to him, and petitioned him, or solicited him, he, the latter, not being a fit person to be petitioned, or solicited: (ISd:) or خُنُوعٌ signifies the being low, vile, base, abject, or submissive; almost always in an improper case. (Ham p. 44.) ― -b2- Accord. to Lth, (TA,) خَنْعٌ signifies The act of playing, toying, or dallying, and conversing with one of the other sex, enticing, or striving to induce, the latter to yield to one's desire, and behaving in a soft, tender, or blandishing, manner. (K, TA.) You say, خَنَعَ النِّسَاآءَ, [or more probably, لِلنِّسَاآءِ,] He played, &c., with women, and behaved in a soft, tender, or blandishing, manner to them. (TK.) ― -b3- خَنَعَ, aor. خَنَعَ , (Lth, K,) inf. n. خَنْعٌ and خُنُوعٌ, (Lth,) also signifies He acted in a suspicious manner, or so as to induce suspicion or evil opinion; (K;) he acted vitiously, or immorally; or committed adultery, or fornication. (Lth, K.) You say, خَنَعَ اـِلَيْهَا He came to her for a vitious, or an immoral, purpose; or for the purpose of adultery, or fornication: (Lth, TA:) or, as some say, he listened to her. (TA.) ― -b4- And خَنَعَ بِهِ, aor. خَنَعَ , inf. n. خُنُوعٌ, He acted perfidiously, unfaithfully, or treacherously, to him; or broke his compact, contract, covenant, or the like, with him. (TA.) -A2- خَنَعَ فُلَانًا اـِلَى السَّوْءَةِ He, or it, invited such a one to that which was foul, abominable, or evil; as also خَضَعَ. (TA in art. خضع.)