Lane's Lexicon (Edward Lane, 1863)

4 اخمل أخمل اخمل خمل He (a man, S, or God, K) rendered a person obscure, unnoted, reputeless, or of no reputation; (S, K; *) contr. of نَبَّهَ. (TA.) -A2- He made a [garment such as is termed] قَطِيفَة, and the like, to have what is termed خَمْل [i. e. a nap, or pile, or villous substance on its surface ]. (K.)

8 اختمل اختمل He pastured, or depastured, خَمَائِل, (K,) i. e. meadows [&c., pl. of خَمِيلَة]. (TA.)

خَمْلٌ خمل [The nap, or pile, or villous substance on the surface, of cloth; ] i. q. هُدْبٌ; (S, Msb;) or the هُدْب of the [ kind of garment called ] قَطِيفَة [q. v.] and the like, (K, TA,) of woven cloths whereof portions [ of the substance ] are redundant; (TA;) or [rather] what resembles هُدْب on the surface of a كِسَاآء [or the like ]; (Mgh;) the خَمْل of a [ carpet such as is called ] طُنْفُسَة [or طِنْفِسَة &c.] and of a garment; as also ↓ خَمِيلَةٌ, of which the pl. [or rather coll. gen. n.] is ↓ خَمِيلٌ. (JK.) ― -b2- Also A طِنْفِسَة [ itself ]: (S, K:) or so ↓ خَمِيلَةٌ: and خَمْلٌ signifies as first explained above, and also a قَطِيفَة [ itself ]: (Msb:) or ↓ خَمِيلَةٌ has this last meaning; as also ↓ خَمْلَةٌ and ↓ خِمْلَةٌ; (K, * TA; [in the CK, كَالخَمِيلَهِ والخَمْلَةُ is erroneously put for كالخَمْلَةِ والخِمْلَةِ;]) or signifies a قطيفة having خَمْل [or nap ]: (TA:) and its pl. [or coll. gen. n.] is as above. (Msb, TA.) ― -b3- And The feathers, , or plumage, of the ostrich; (JK, T, M, K;) as also ↓ خَمَالَةٌ and ↓ خَمِيلَةٌ; (T, M, K;) of which last the pl. [or coll. gen. n.] is as above. (TA.)

خَمْلَةٌ خمل خمله خملة : see the next preceding paragraph. ― -b2- Also, and ↓ خِمْلَةٌ, A garment (Lth, K) of wool, (Lth,) having خَمْل [or nap ], such as the كِسَاآء and the like: (Lth, K:) or an عَبَاآء of the fabric of Katawán, white, and with short خَمْل [or nap ]. (Az, TA.)

خِمْلَةٌ خمل خمله خملة : see خَمْلٌ: and خَمْلَةٌ. -A2- Also A man's secret, which he conceals: and his secret disposition of the mind. (K.) One says, اِسْأَلْ عَنْ خِمْلَاتِهِ [in the CK خَمْلاتِه] Ask thou concerning his secrets, and his bad, evil, or foul, qualities, dispositions, habits, practices, or actions. (K, TA.) And هُوَ لَئِيمُ الخِمْلَةِ [ He is base, ignoble, or mean, in respect of the secret disposition of the mind ], and كَرِيمُهَا [ generous in respect thereof ]: (Fr, K:) or it is applied peculiarly to baseness, ignobleness, or meanness: (AZ, K:) حَسَنُ الخِمْلَةِ has not been heard. (AZ.)

خُمَالٌ خمال Lameness: or, accord. to A 'Obeyd, a limping, or slight lameness, in the legs of camels, which is cured by cutting the vein: (S:) or a malady in the joints of a man, (K,) resembling lameness, (TA,) and in the legs of a beast, (K,) a horse, a sheep or goat, and a camel, (TA,) occasioning a limping, or slight lameness: (K:) or a malady that affects the horse, (T, TA,) or the camel, (JK,) in consequence of which he will not move until he has a vein cut; otherwise he dies: (JK, T, TA:) and also a malady that affects a leg of the sheep or goat, and then shifts to the other legs, going the round of them. (T, TA.)

خَمِيلٌ خميل pl. [or rather coll. gen. n.] of خَمِيلَةٌ in three senses explained above: see خَمْلٌ. ― -b2- Also garments having خَمْل [or nap ]. (K.) ― -b3- A black garment. (JK.) ― -b4- (tropical:) Dense clouds. (IDrd, K, TA.) ― -b5- (tropical:) Soft food; (K, TA;) meaning such as is termed ثَرِيد: mentioned by ISd. (TA.) -A2- See also مَخْمُولٌ.

خَمَالَةٌ خماله خمالة : see خَمْلٌ.

خَمِيلَةٌ خميله خميلة : see خَمْلٌ, in four places. ― -b2- Also A dense collection of trees; (JK, S;) so says Aboo- Sá'id: (S:) or numerous tangled, or luxuriant, or dense, trees, (K, TA,) among which one sees not a thing when it falls in the midst thereof: (TA:) and a place abounding in trees, wherever it be, (K,) or, accord. to Az, only in plain, level, or soft, ground: (TA:) and a low, or depressed, tract of ground, (K, * TA,) or of sand, (M, TA,) or an intervening tract between low, or depressed, and hard, ground, (T, TA,) or an intervening tract amid sands, in low, or depressed, and hard, ground, (JK,) and producing good herbage or plants: (JK, T, K, TA:) or plain, or soft, land, producing herbage or plants, which are likened to the خَمْل [or nap ] of the قَطِيفَة: or a place where water remains and stagnates, and which produces trees; but only in plain, level, or soft, ground: (TA:) or a meadow (رَوْضَةٌ) in which are trees; that in which are no trees being termed جَلْحَاآءُ: (Har p. 118:) or a tract of sand producing trees: (As, S, K:) or a place where a tract of sand becomes thin, or shallow; where the main portion of it passes away, and somewhat of the soft part of it remains: pl. خَمَائِلُ: which is also explained as signifying meadows (رِيَاض). (TA.)

خَامِلٌ خامل A man obscure, unnoted, reputeless, or of no reputation; (S, Msb, K;) unknown, (JK, T,) and unmentioned; (T;) destitute of good fortune: (Msb:) and one says also خَامِنٌ, by substitution [of ن for ل]: (TA:) pl. خَمَلٌ (K) and خَمَلَةٌ, explained as signifying the lower or lowest, or meaner or meanest, sort of mankind. (TA.) You say also قَوْلٌ خَامِلٌ A low, soft, or gentle, saying or speech. (Az, TA.) And it is said in a trad., اُذْكُرُوا ا@للّٰهِ ذِكْرًا خَامِلًا Celebrate ye God with a low, soft, or gentle, voice, in reverence of his greatness, or majesty. (TA.)

مُخْمَلٌ مخمل A garment, (JK, TA,) or a كِسَاآء, (Mgh, Msb,) having خَمْل [or nap ], (JK, * Mgh, Msb, TA,) i. e. what resembles هُدْب on its surface. (Mgh.)

مَخْمُولٌ مخمول (JK, TA) and مَخْمُولَةٌ, (JK,) applied to a young camel, (JK,) or to a camel, and a horse, (TA,) and a sheep or goat, (شاة, JK, TA,) Having, or affected with, the disease termed خُمَال: (JK, TA:) and so ↓ خَمِيلٌ, applied to a young camel; pl. خَمْلَى. (JK.)

1 خَمَنَ خمن خمنن , [aor. خَمُنَ ,] inf. n. خُمُونٌ, said of [a man's] reputation (الذِّكْرُ), It was, or became, obscure; i. q. خَمَلَ, inf. n. خُمُولٌ: and, said of a thing, it was, or became, obscure, unapparent, hidden, or concealed: whence خَمَنَهُ as syn. with خَمَّنَهُ, q. v. (Msb.)

2 خمّنهُ خمن خمنه خمننه خمنة , (Msb, K,) inf. n. تَخْمِينٌ; (S, Msb;) and ↓ خَمَنَهُ, (Msb, K,) aor. خَمِنَ inf. n. خَمْنٌ; (Msb;) He spoke of it conjecturally, (S, Msb, K,) and opining; (TA;) or surmising: (K:) or he formed a surmise respecting it; or an opinion. (Msb.) IDrd says, I think it to be post-classical: (TA:) AHát says that it is of Persian origin, (Msb, TA,) arabicized, (TA,) from خمانا, [app. a mistranscription for Gُمَانَا, or Gُمَانَهْ, or Gُمَانْ,] applied to “ an opinion, ” and “ a conjecture, ” or “ conjectural saying. ” (Msb, TA.) ― -b2- تَخْمِينٌ is also syn. with تَحْرِيرٌ. (So in the TA. [But this, I doubt not, is a mistranscription for تَحْزِيزٌ, which, though perhaps post-classical, signifies The act of conjecturing. ])

خَمَنٌ خمن خمنن Stink. (K.)

[ خَمَانٌ خذمان The elder-tree: and خَمَانٌ صَغِيرٌ Dwarf elder-tree: so in the present day.]

خَمَّانٌ خمان A weak spear: and قَنَاةٌ خَمَّانَةٌ [ a weak spear or spear-shaft ]. (A 'Obeyd, S, K.) ― -b2- What is bad of household-goods, or furniture, or utensils: (TA:) and The refuse, or lowest or basest or meanest sort, or mankind; (S, K;) the bad thereof. (K.) [Mentioned also in art. خم.]

خَامِنُ الذِّكْرِ ذ A man (TA) obscure, unnoted, reputeless, of no reputation; i. q. خَامِلُ الذِّكْرِ. (K, TA.)

خَامٍ خام (accus. خَامِيًا) for خَامِسٌ: see the latter word.

1 خَنَّ خان خن خنن , (Sh, S, K,) aor. يَخِنٌّ, (S, K,) inf. n. خَنِينٌ, (Sh, S, *, K * TA,) He made a sound from the nose, like حَنِين from the mouth: (TA:) he made a sound like weeping, (S, *, K * TA,) and (so in the S, but in the K “ or ”) like laughing, in the nose: (S, * K, * TA:) he reiterated a sound of weeping in the air-passages of the nose; and sometimes خَنِينٌ is [the reiterating a sound in the nose ] from faint laughing: (Sh, TA:) or he laughed faintly. (JK.) [See also خَنِينٌ below.] -A2- خُنَّ He (a camel) was affected with the disease termed خُنَان: (JK, TA:) [and in like manner, a bird: see مَخْنُونٌ.]

4 اخنّهُ ا@للّٰهُ ذ i. q. أَجَنَّهُ [ God caused him to be bereft of reason; or mad, insane, &c.]. (Lh, K.)

R. Q. 1 خَنْخَنَ خنخن خنخنن , (TA,) inf. n. خَنْخَنَةٌ, (JK, S, K, TA,) [like خَمْخَمَ,] He snuffled; i. e., spoke through his nose: (TA:) he spoke indistinctly, making a sort of twang (يُخَنْخِنُ) in his خَيَاشِيم [or air-passages of the nose ]. (JK, S, K.) A poet says, خَنْخَنَ لِى فِى قَوْلِهِ سَاعَةً فَقَالَ لِى شَيْئًا وَلَمْ أَسْمَعِ [ He snuffled to me in his speech awhile, and said to me something, but I heard not ]. (TA.) ― -b2- خَنْخَنَةٌ also signifies The crying of the ape. (IAar, TA.)

خُنَّةٌ خان خن خنه خننه خنة i. q. غُنَّةٌ [i. e. A nasal sound or twang; or a snuffling sound ]; (JK, K;) the latter word explained by Mbr as meaning a mixture of the sound of the خَيْشُوم [or air-passage of the nose ] in the pronunciation of a letter or word; (TA;) as also ↓ مَخَنَّةٌ: (K:) or the first is like غُنَّةٌ; (S, K;) as also ↓ خَنَنٌ: (ISd, TA:) or, (Mbr, K,) as also ↓ مَخَنَّةٌ, (TA,) louder than غُنَّةٌ: (Mbr, K, TA:) or more open than غُنَّةٌ: (K, TA. [In the CK, أَقْبَحُ is put in the place of أَفْتَحُ.])

خَنَنٌ خن خنن خننن : see what next precedes.

خُنَانٌ خنان A certain disease that attacks in the nose: (S, TA:) a disease that attack camels in their nostrils, and from which they die; (As, TA;) a rheum that affects camels; (K;) in camels, like the زُكَام in human beings. (JK.) زَمَنُ الخُنَانِ [ The time of the خنان] was in the age of ElMundhir Ibn-Má-es-Semà; in consequence thereof the camels died: (K:) it is well known with the Arabs, is mentioned in their verses, (TA,) and became an era to them. (As, TA.) ― -b2- Also A certain disease that attacks birds in their throats. (S, M, K.) ― -b3- And A certain disease in the eye. (M, K.)

خَنِينٌ خنة خني خنين The issuing of a sound from the nose, like حَنِينٌ from the mouth: [see حَنِينٌ, in two places:] this is the primary signification: (TA:) and it is [the making a sound ] like weeping, and (so in the S, but in the K “ or ”) like laughing, in the nose: (S, K:) IB says that there is a kind of خنين like weeping in the nose: (TA:) or a weeping of women, (JK,) or a kind of weeping, (IAth, TA,) less than what is termed اِنْتِحَابٌ: (JK, IAth, TA:) and a faint laughing. (JK.) [See also 1.] ― -b2- And Stoppages in the خَيَاشِيم [or air-passages of the nose ]. (TA.)

أَخَنٌّ ذ i. q. أَغَنٌّ [as meaning Having a nasal twang ]; (S, K, TA;) who snuffles; i. e., speaks from [i. e. through ] his nose: (TA voce أَدْغَمُ:) [or] as meaning having the خَيَاشِيم [or airpassages of the nose ] stopped up: or, as some say, having the خياشيم [here app. meaning certain cartilages in the upper, or inmost, part of the nose ] delapsed: [see 1 in art. خشم:] fem. خَنَّاآءُ: (TA:) and pl. خُنٌّ. (S, K.)

مَخَنَّةٌ مخنه مخنة : see خُنَّةٌ, in two places. -A2- Also The nose: (S, K:) written by J [accord. to some of the copies of the S, but not accord. to all,] with kesr to the م: (TA:) or the extremity thereof. (K.) -A3- And i. q. مَأْكَلَةٌ: so in the phrase, فُلَانٌ مَخَنَّةٌ لِفُلَانٍ [ Such a one is to such a one a person from whom to obtain what to eat ]. (S, K.) ― -b2- You say also, البِطِّيخُ لِى مَخَنَّةٌ i. e. [ The melon, or water-melon, is to me ] a usual food. (JM.)

مَخْنُونٌ مخنون A camel, and a bird, affected with the disease termed خُنَان. (TA.) ― -b2- And i. q. مَجْنُونٌ [ Bereft of reason; or mad, insane, &c.]. (Lh, K.) [See R. Q. 1 in art. خم.]

1 خَنَثَ خنث , (Lth, L,) aor. خَنِثَ , inf. n. خَنْثٌ, (L,) He folded, or doubled, a skin for water or milk, and a sack. (Lth, L.) And خَنَثَ السِّقَاآءَ, (S, A, Mgh, K, TA,) and فَمَ السِّقَاآءِ, (A, TA,) and السقاآءِ ↓ اختنث, (S, A, * Mgh, K,) He doubled the skin, (S, K,) or the mouth of the skin, (A, Mgh, TA,) outwards, (S, A, Mgh, K,) or inside-out, (TA,) and drank from it; (S, Mgh, K;) the doing of which is forbidden (Mgh, TA) by Mo- hammad: (TA:) when you double it inwards, you say, قَبَعْتُهُ: (S, A, Mgh:) or خَنَثَ فَمَ السِّقَاآءِ signifies he turned the mouth of the skin outsidein or inside-out: and خَنْثٌ signifies any kind of inverting, or turning upside-down or inside-out or the like. (TA.) ― -b2- [Hence, app.,] خَنَثَ لَهُ بِأَنْفِهِ [ He contracted his nose at him ]; as though he mocked at, scoffed at, derided, or ridiculed, him: so in the A: but in the K, خَنَثَهُ, aor. خَنِثَ , he mocked at, scoffed at, derided, or ridiculed, him. (TA.) -A2- خَنَثٌ, aor. خَنَثَ , (L, Msb, K,) inf. n. خَنَثٌ; (A, Msb, TA;) and ↓ انخث, (S, A, L, Msb, K,) and ↓ تخنّث; (A, L, K;) He (a man, L) affected a bending, or an inclining of his body, from side to side, and languor, or languidness; or he became bent and languid; syn. تَثَنَّى وَتَكَسَّرَ: (S, A, L, K:) [or he was, or became, flaccid, or flabby, and affected a bending, or an inclining of his body, from side to side: (see خَنِثٌ:) or he was, or became, effeminate: (see خُنْثٌ:)] or he was, or became, soft, delicate, tender, flabby, lax, or limber, and affected languor, or languidness; expl. by كَانَ فِيهِ لِينٌ وَتَكَسُّرٌ. (Msb.) 'Áïsheh, describing the death of Mohammad, says, ↓ اِنْخَنَثَ فِى حَجْرِى, meaning He became bent and languid (اِنْثَنَى وَتَكَسَّرَ), by reason of the flaccidness of his limbs, in my bosom. (TA.)

2 خنّثهُ خنث خنثه خنثة , (S, K,) inf. n. تَخْنِيثٌ, (K,) He bent it; (S, K;) namely, a thing. (S.) Hence the epithet مُخَنَّثٌ. (S, K.) ― -b2- He made him to be, or become, such as is termed خَنِثٌ. (Msb.) ― -b3- خنّث كَلَامَهُ He made his speech like that of women, in softness and gentleness: so some say. (Msb.) -A2- تَخْنِيثٌ also signifies The doing what is excessively foul, or obscene; [i. e. the acting the part of a catamite; ] but this meaning was unknown to the Arabs [of the classical ages]. (MF.)

5 تخنّث تخنث خنث It (a thing, S) bent, or became bent. (S, K.) ― -b2- Also i. q. خَنِثَ, q. v. (A, * L, K.) And He (a man) acted in the manner of the مُخِنَّث [or effeminate, &c.]. (TA.) [ He became a مُخَنَّث: used in this sense in the S and K in art. طوس.] And تخنّث فِى كَلَامِهِ [ He was soft, or effeminate, in his speech ]. (S, Mgh.) ― -b3- He (a man &c.) fell down by reason of weakness. (TA.)

7 انخنثت القِرْبَةُ انخنثت القربه انخنثت القربة The water-skin became folded, or doubled. (L.) ― -b2- انخنثت عُنُقُهُ His neck inclined, or bent. (TA.) ― -b3- See also 1, in two places.

8 اـِخْتَنَثَ see 1, second sentence.

خُنْثٌ خنث a subst. from اِنْخَنَثَ [ An affectation of a bending, or of an inclining of the body, from side to side, and of languor, or languidness; or a bending and languidness: or flaccidity or flabbiness, and an affectation of a bending, or of an inclining of the body, from side to side: or effeminacy: or softness, delicacy, tenderness, flabbiness, laxness, or limberness, and an affectation of languor, or languidness ]: (S, L:) as also ↓ خِنَاثَةٌ. (Msb.) Jereer says, أَتُوعِدُنِى وَ أَنْتَ مُجَاشِعِىٌّ أَرَى فِى خُنْثِ لِحْيَتِكَ ا@ضْطِرَابَا [ Dost thou threaten me, thou being a Mujáshi'ee? I see, in the softness and weakness of thy beard, or in the bending and languidness, or the effeminacy, of thy person, (for the beard is sometimes, by a synecdoche, put for the whole person,) an evidence of unsoundness, uncompactness, or weakness ]. (S.)

خِنْثٌ خنث , with kesr, sing. of أَخْنَاثٌ and خِنَاثٌ, (TA,) which signify The creases, or places of folding, of a garment, or piece of cloth. (K, TA.) You say, طَوَى الثَّوْبَ عَلَى أَخْنَاثِهِ and خِنَاثِهِ He folded the garment, or piece of cloth, at its creases. (TA.) And [hence,] أَلْقَى اللَّيْلُ أَخْنَاثَةُ عَلَى الأَرْضِ (assumed tropical:) The night cast the folds of its darkness upon the earth. (TA.) ― -b2- Also the former pl., (TA,) and the latter also, (K,) The parts of the دَلْو [or bucket] whence the water pours forth, between the عَرَاقِى. (K, TA.) ― -b3- The sing. also signifies The interior of the part of the cheek by the side of the mouth, next the molar teeth, (K, TA,) above and below. (TA.) ― -b4- And A company in a state of dispersion. (K.)

خَنِثٌ خنث One in whom is an affectation of a bending, or of an inclining of the body, from side to side, and of languor, or languidness; or in whom is a bending and languidness; expl. by مَنْ فِيهِ تَثَنٍّ وَتَكَسُّرٌ: (A, L, K:) or flaccid, or flabby, and affecting a bending, or an inclining of the body, from side to side: (S:) [or effeminate; like مُخَنَّثٌ]: or one in whom is softness, delicacy, tenderness, flabbiness, laxness, or limberness, and an affectation of languor, or languidness: (Msb:) fem. with ة. (TA.) And ↓ خُنُثٌ (TA) and ↓ مِخْنَاثٌ, (K,) applied to a woman, (K, TA,) Soft, delicate, tender, flabby, lax, or limber, (TA,) and affecting languor, or languid- ness: (K, TA:) pl. of the latter مَخَانِيثُ. (TA.) One says to such a woman, ↓ يَاخَنَاثِ, (K,) [indecl.,] like قَطَامِ; (TA;) and to a man [of the same description], ↓ يَا خُنَثُ. (K.)

يَا خُنَثُ يا خنث : see the next preceding paragraph.

خُنُثٌ خنث : see the next preceding paragraph.

خُنْثَى خنث خنثى خنثي خنثيي [ A hermaphrodite; ] one who has what is proper to the male and what is proper to the female: Kr makes it an epithet, and says رَجُلٌ خُنْثَى; (TA;) one who has what is proper to men and what is proper to women, (S, Mgh, K,) together; (S, K;) one who has, by creation, the anterior pudendum of a man and that of a woman: (Msb:) in the language of the lawyers, one who has what are proper to both sexes; or who has neither that of a man nor that of a woman: but some of them say that the former meaning is the proper one; and that he who has no external organ of generation is adjoined to the class of the خنثى as being subject to the same special laws: (MF, TA:) the pl. is خَنَاثَى (S, Mgh, Msb, K) and خِنَاثٌ. (Msb, K.) -A2- Also The plant called بَرْوَاقٌ [i. e. the asphodel ]. (K in art. برق.)

يَا خَنَاثِ يا خناث : see خَنِتٌ.

خَنِيثٌ خنيث A skin of the kind called قِرْبَة folded, or doubled. (L.)

خُنَاثَةُ خناثه خناثة خنثى : see مُخَنَّثٌ.

خِنَاثَةٌ خناثه خناثة خنثى : see خُنْثٌ.

حُنَيْثَةُ حنيثه حنيثة : see مُخَنَّتُ.

أَخْنَثُ مِنْ دَلَالِ ذ [ More effeminate, or more incapable of venery, than Delál ]: a prov. (S, TA.) Delál was a certain man of El-Medeeneh, (TA,) who was made a eunuch, together with several other مُخَنَّثُون. (TA in art. دل. [See Freytag's Arab. Prov. i. 451; where the name is erroneously written دَلَّال.])

مُخَنَّثٌ مخنث , from خَنَّثَ “he bent,” (S, K,) because of his softness, delicacy, tenderness, flabbiness, laxness, or limberness, and affectation of languor, or languidness; (TA;) or from خُنْثَى; (Kh, JK, MS;) An effeminate man; (T in art. انث, and TA;) one who resembles a woman in gentleness, and in softness of speech, and in an affectation of languor of the limbs: (TA voce مُؤَنَّثٌ, q. v.: [see also خَنِثٌ:]) it is written thus and ↓ مُخَنِّثٌ: (TA:) this latter is explained by some as meaning one who makes his speech like that of women, in softness and gentleness: (Msb, TA:) it is also said that both these epithets are used to signify one who affects languor, or languidness, of the limbs; one who makes himself like women in the bending of himself, and in affecting languor, or languidness, and in speech: but that one uses the latter epithet only when he means one who does what is excessively foul, or obscene; [i. e. a catamite; though this is a meaning often borne by the former also;] notwithstanding that تَخْنِيثٌ, as signifying the “committing such an action,” was unknown to the Arabs [of the classical ages], and is not found in their language: (MF, TA:) [often, also,] the former epithet signifies a man incapable of venery: (MA:) it is said in a trad. that they used to reckon the مخنّث as one of those having no need of نِكَاح. (TA in art. ارب.) The مُخَنَّث is also called ↓ خُنَاثَةُ and ↓ خُنَيْثَةُ [each imperfectly decl.]. (K, TA.)

مُخَنِّثٌ مخنث : see what next precedes.

مِخْنَاثٌ مخناث : see خَنِثٌ.

خَنْجَرٌ خنجر (S, Mgh, Msb, K) and خِنْجِرٌ (Msb) and خِنْجَرٌ, (K,) the last of a rare form, like دِرْهَمٌ, (TA,) A knife: or a great knife: (K:) or a kind of large knife [or dagger, generally curved, and double-edged ], (S, Mgh, Msb,) called in Persian دَشْنَهْ: (Mgh:) pl. خَنَاجِرُ. (Msb.) Some say, [as, for instance, the author of the Msb,] that the ن is augmentative, the measure being فنعل. (TA.) -A2- Also the first, (K,) and ↓ خُنْجُورٌ, (As, S, TA,) or ↓ خُنْجُورَةٌ, and ↓ خَنْجَرَةٌ, (K,) A she-camel abounding with milk: (As, S, K:) pl. خَنَاجِرُ. (S.) And ↓ خُنْجُورَةٌ A bulky she-camel. (K.)