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خون

Root entry · 1 derived lemma

خَائِنٌ ذ and ↓ خَائِنَةٌ, (S, Msb, K,) the latter an intensive epithet, (S, Msb,) like عَلَّامَةٌ and نَسَّابَةٌ, (S,) [and also fem. of خَائِنٌ,] and ↓ خَؤُونٌ and ↓ خَوَّانٌ, (K,) [which are likewise intensive epithets,] Unfaithful, or acting unfaithfully, to the confidence, or trust, reposed in him; (K;) [ treacherous, perfidious, or unfaithful; or acting treacherously, perfidiously, or unfaithfully: thus the first signifies: the others signifying very un faithful, &c.:] pl. [of the first] خَوَنَةٌ, (S, M, K,) which is anomalous, (M,) like حَوَكَةٌ [pl. of حَائِكٌ], (S,) and خُوَّانٌ. (K.) [Hence,] خَائِنٌ النَّظَرِ Looking treacherously, and clandestinely, at a thing at which it is not allowable to look. (TA.) ― -b2- خَائِنُ العَيْنِ (assumed tropical:) [ The languid in respect of the eye ] is an appellation applied to the lion; (K, TA;) because of a languidness in his eye when he looks. (TA.)

Derived headwords

خَائِنٌ
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خَائِنُ العَيْنِ