Lane's Lexicon (Edward Lane, 1863)

خَنْجَرَةٌ خنجر خنجره خنجرة : see above.

خُنْجُورٌ خنجور and خُنْجُورَةٌ: see خَنْجَرٌ, in three places.

خَنْدَرِيسٌ خندريس Wine; (S, K;) so called because of its oldness: (S:) or old wine: (TA:) [accord. to some,] derived from خَدْرَسَةٌ, a word not explained: (K:) by some said to be of the measure فَنْعَلِيسٌ, so that its radical letters are خدر; because wine is مُخَدِّر [i. e. a cause of torpor or languor]: by some said to be from خَرْسٌ; but to this it is objected that د is not augmentative: the truth is, that it is of the measure فَعْلَلِيلٌ, as Sb says: (MF:) by the author of the L and others, it is mentioned after art. خنس: (TA:) or it is a Greek word, arabicized: (K:) [but I know not how this is, unless, as an epithet applied to wheat, (see what follows,) it be supposed to be from χόνδρος :] IDrd thought it to be an arabicized word: it may be an arabicized word from the Persian خَنْدَهْ رِيشْ, meaning “ having a laughing beard,” [or rather “one whose beard is laughed at,” i. e., “a laughing-stock,”] because he who makes use of it [namely of wine] has his beard laughed at. (TA.) ― -b2- You also say, حِنْطَة خَنْدَرِيسٌ Old wheat: (IDrd, S, K:) and تَمْرٌ خَنْدَرِيسٌ old dates. (TA.)

Q. 1 خَنْدَقَهُ خندق خندقه خندقة (K) and خَنْدَقَ حَوْلَهُ (TA) He dug a خَنْدَق, i. e. fosse, or moat, around it. (K, * TA.) [In the CK the words of this art. are with ذ in the place of د.]

خَنْدَقٌ خندق A fosse, or moat, [ such as is ] dug around the walls of cities: arabicized, from كَنْدَهْ, (IDrd, K,) which is Persian: (IDrd:) pl. خَنَادِقُ. (TA.) ― -b2- And A valley. (TA.)

مُخَنْدِقٌ مخندق One who makes a خَنْدَق [i. e. fosse, or moat ]. (JK.)

خَنْدَقُوقٌ خندقوق Tall. (TA. [But perhaps this is a mistranscription for حَنْدَقُوقٌ, q. v.])

خَنَوَّرٌ خنور : and الخَنَوَّرٌ: and أُمُّ خَنَوَّرٍ: see what follows, in four places.

خَنُّورٌ خنور and ↓ خَنَوَّرٌ Any soft and weak tree: (K:) or such is called خنورة [i. e. خَنُّورَةٌ or حَنَوَّرَةٌ: each, without ة, being app. a coll. gen. n.; and with ة, a n. un.]. (TA.) ― -b2- And hence, accord. to AHn, (TA,) The reeds of [ which are made ] arrows. (K.) -A2- أُمُّ خَنُّورٍ (S, K) and أُمُّ خِنَّوْرٍ (K) The female hyena: (S, K:) or she is called by the latter appellation, accord. to Aboo-Riyásh: or, as some say, these are surnames of the hyena. (TA.) And The cow [probably the wild cow ]. (Aboo-Riyásh, K.) ― -b2- Also Calamity, or misfortune. (S, K.) You say, وَقَعَ القَوْمُ فِى أُمِّ خَنُّورٍ The people, or party, fell into calamity, or misfortune. (L, TA. But see two other explanations in what follows.) ― -b3- And Plentifulness, and pleasantness or easiness, and softness or delicacy, of life; or a life of softness or delicacy, and ease, comfort, or affluence; syn. النَّعْمَةُ: [in the CK النِّعْمَةُ; which is in many instances in the CK, as I hold it to be in the present instance, erroneously substituted for النَّعْمَةُ:] thus bearing two contrary significations: and الخَنُّورُ and ↓ الخَنَوَّرُ signify the same, such as is apparent; (K;) or, as some say, abundant. (TA.) Some explain the saying above-mentioned as meaning The people, or party, fell into a state of plenty, or abundance, and softness or delicacy or easiness of life. (TA.) ― -b4- And The present world; or the present life, or state of existence; as also ↓ أُمُّ خَنَوَّرٍ: (L:) or so الخِنَّوْرُ and ↓ الخَنَوَّرُ. (K.) ― -b5- And The deserts; syn. الصَّحَارَى: and so accord. to some in the saying mentioned above. (TA.) ― -b6- And The podex, or the anus; syn. الاِسْتُ: (K:) but AHát doubts respecting the teshdeed of the ن; [app. whether this letter be doubled, or the و;] Aboo-Sahl says that it is أُمُّ خِنَّوْرٍ [only]: and IKh says that it means the اِسْت of the bitch. (TA.)

1 خَنِزَ خنز , aor. خَنَزَ ; (S, A, * Msb, K;) and خَنَزَ, aor. خَنُزَ ; (Msb;) inf. n. of the former, خَنَزٌ, (S, Msb, K,) and of the former also, (K,) or of the latter, (Msb,) خُنُوزٌ; (Msb, K;) It (flesh-meat, S, A, Msb, K, and a date, and a walnut, TA) became stinking: (S, A, K:) or altered [ in odour ] : (Msb:) or maggotty and stinking: (TA:) like خَزِنَ. (S.)

خَنَزٌ خنز : see what next follows.

خَنِزٌ خنز , applied to flesh-meat, (Msb, K,) and to a date, and a walnut, (TA,) Stinking: (K:) or altered [ in odour ]: (Msb:) or maggotty and stinking: (TA:) as also ↓ خَنَزٌ. (Yaakoob, K.)

خُنْزُوَةٌ خنزوه خنزوة : see what next follows.

خُنْزُوَانٌ خنزوان : see what next follows.

خُنْزُوَانَةٌ خنزوانه خنزوانة Pride; self-magnification; (S, A, K;) as also ↓ خُنْزُوَانٌ, and ↓ خُنْزُوَانِيَّة, and ↓ خُنْزُوَةٌ: (K:) so called because it changes one from the right state: (TA:) pl. of the first, خُنْزُوَانَاتٌ. (S.) You say, هُوَ ذُو خُنْزُوَانَاتٌ [ He possesses proud feelings ]. (S.) And فِيهِ خُنْزُوَانَةٌ In him is pride. (A.) And لَأَنْزَعَنَّ خُنْزُوَانَتَكَ [ I will assuredly pluck out thy pride ]. (TA.)

خُنْزُوَانِيَّةٌ خنزواني خنزوانيه خنزوانية : see the next preceding paragraph.

خَنَازِ خناز Stinking: (K:) used as a proper name, (TA,) applied to a woman: (K, TA:) from خَنِزَ said of flesh-meat. (TA.)

خَنْزَرَ خنزر : and خِنْزِيرٌ: see art. خزر.

1 خَنَسَ أخنس خنس , (S, A, Mgh, Msb, K,) aor. خَنُسَ , (S,) or خَنِسَ , (Mgh, Msb,) or both, (K,) inf. n. خُنُوسٌ, (A,) or خَنْسٌ, (Msb,) or both, (K, TA,) and خُنَاسٌ, (TA,) He went, or drew, back or backwards; receded; retreated; retired; or retrograded: or he remained behind; held back; hung back; or lagged behind: syn. تَأَخَّرَ: (S, A, Mgh, Msb, K:) عَنْهُ from him or it: (S, K:) or مِنْ بَيْنِ القَوْمِ from among the company of people: and hid himself: (A:) or and shrank, or drew himself together: (TA:) and ↓ انخنس signifies the same; (Msb, K;) and so ↓ اختنس; and خَنُسَ, aor. خَنُسَ , is mentioned by Sgh: (TA:) or خَنَسَ signifies he went back, &c., syn. تأخّر: and also, he shrank, or drew himself together: (Mgh, Msb: *) and he hid himself; became hidden or absent. (TA.) You say, خَنَسَ الكَوْكَبُ (tropical:) The star returned, or went back, or retrograded: syn. رَجَعَ; a tropical signification: (A: [and in the TA it is said that خَنْسٌ is syn. with رُجُوعٌ, and is tropical in this sense:]) or became hidden, (K, TA,) like a gazelle in its covert, (TA,) or like the devil when he hears the mention of God: (K, TA:) or became concealed in the day-time: (TA:) and خُنُوسٌ signifies also the being, or becoming, depressed. (Ham p. 332.) And خَنَسَ عَنِ القَوْمِ He held back, or hung back, from the company of people; remained behind them, not going with them; syn, تَخَلَّفَ; (As, on the authority of an Arab of the desert, of the Benoo- 'Okeyl;) as also ↓ انخنس. (K.) [This is said in the TA to be tropical; but why, I see not.] And خَنَسَتِ النَّخْلُ (assumed tropical:) The palm-trees were backward to receive fecundation, (تَأَخَّرَتْ عَنْ قَبُولِ التَّلْقِيحِ, lit, held back from receiving fecundation, ) so that it had not any effect upon them, and they did not bear fruit that year. (TA.) And يَخْنِسُ الشَّيْطَانُ اـِذَا سَمِعَ ذِكْرَ ا@للّٰهِ The devil shrinks when he hears the mention of God. (Msb.) And خَنَسَ مِنْ بَيْنِ أَصْحَابِهِ He hid himself from among his companions. (TA.) And خَنَسَ عَنِّى (tropical:) He, or it, [app. the latter,] became hid from me. (A.) And خَنَسَ بِهِ He went away with him; took him away; so that he was not seen; (ISh, K;) as also به ↓ تخنّس: (K:) and he hid him, or it. (TA.) -A2- See also 4, in four places. -A3- خَنِسَ الأَنْفٌ, aor. خَنَسَ , (Msb,) inf. n. خَنَسٌ, (S, A, Msb, K,) The nose was, or became, [ camous, or camoys, i. e.,] depressed in its bone: (Msb:) or depressed in its bone, (A,) or contracted therein, (TA,) and wide in the end: (A, TA:) or retiring from the face, with a slight elevation in the end; (S, K, TA;) خَنَسٌ being nearly the same as فَطَسٌ: (TA:) or retiring towards the head, and rising from the lip, not being long nor prominent: or its bone lay close upon the elevated part of the cheek, and it was large in the end. (TA.) See also the inf. n. voce أَخْنَسُ. ― -b2- خَنِسَتِ القَدَمُ, inf. n. خَنَسٌ, The foot was, or became, flat in the hollow part of the sole, and fleshy. (TA: but only the inf. n. of the verb in this sense is there mentioned.)

4 اخنسهُ أخنس أخنسه اخنسه اخنسة He made him to go back or backwards; to recede, retreat, retire, or retrograde: or he put him, or placed him, or made him to be, behind, or after: or he made him to remain behind, hold back, hang back, or lag behind: or he kept him back: or he delayed, or retarded, him: syn. أَخَّرَهُ: (T, A, Msb, K:) as also ↓ خَنَسَهُ, (Fr, T, A, Mgh, Msb, K,) aor. خَنِسَ , (Msb,) [and app., accord. to the K, خَنُسَ also,] inf. n. خَنْسٌ; (Msb;) but the former is the more common: (TA:) and (tropical:) hid him, or it: or made him, or it, to hide himself or itself; (A;) or he left behind, (As, S:) and went away from, (S,) him, or it: (As, S:) or both signify he contracted, or drew together, or made to contract or draw together, him [or it ]: (Msb:) or the latter verb has this signification as well as that of أَخَّرَهُ: (Mgh:) [and so has the former also, as will be seen below:] and the former also signifies (tropical:) he hid, or concealed, him, or it; (A;) as also بِهِ ↓ خَنَسَ, as mentioned above. (TA.) You say, أَخْنَسْتُ عَنْهُ بَعْضَ حَقِّهِ I kept back (أَخَّرْتُ) from him part of his right, or due. (Fr, TA.) And أَخْنَسُوا الطَّرِيقَ (tropical:) They passed beyond the road: (AA, TA:) or left it behind them: (TA:) or passed beyond it and left it behind them. (A.) And أَشَارَ بِأَرْبَعٍ وَأَخْنَسَ اـِبْهَامَهُ, (A,) and ↓ خَنَسَهَا, (Mgh, Msb, K,) He [ made a sign with four fingers and ] contracted his thumb. (Mgh, Msb, K.) It is related of Mohammad, that he said, “ The month is thus and thus, ” [twice extending the fingers and thumb of each hand,] and that, the third time, اـِصْبَعَهُ ↓ خَنَسَ, i. e., he contracted his finger, [meaning, one of his fingers,] to inform them that the month is nine and twenty [nights with their days]. (TA.)

5 تخّنس بِهِ تخنس به تخنس بة : see 1.

7 اـِنْخَنَسَ see 1, in two places.

8 اـِخْتَنَسَ see 1.

خُنُسٌ أخنس خنس : see أَخْنَسُ. -A2- A place of gazelles: (K:) or a place to which gazelles betake themselves for covert. (L.)

خَنَاسٌ خناس : see أَخْنَسُ.

الخَنَّاسُ الخناس خناس The devil: (S, K:) an epithet applied to him, (Msb,) because he retires, or shrinks, or hides himself, (يَخْنُسُ, S, Msb, K, i. e., يَتَأَخَّرُ, as is implied in the S, or يَنْقَبِضُ, Msb, or يَغِيبُ, K,) at the mention of God; (S, Msb, K; *) being an intensive act. part. n. from خَنَسَ. (Msb.)

خِنَّوْسٌ خنوس : see أَخْنَسُ, in two places.

خَانِسٌ خانس Going back or backwards; receding; retreating; retiring; or retrograding: or remaining behind; holding back; hanging back; or lagging behind: syn. مُتَأَخِّرٌ: pl. خُنَّسٌ. (TA.) ― -b2- [Hence,] الخُنَّسُ, (in the Kur lxxxi. 15, S,) (tropical:) The stars; (S, K;) i. e., all of them; because they retire, or hide themselves, (تَخْنُسُ,) at setting; or because they become concealed in the day-time: (S:) or the planets: (S, K:) or the five stars, Saturn, Jupiter, Mars, Venus, and Mercury: (Fr, S, K, Jel:) because they return, (تَخْنُسُ, i. c., تَرْجِعُ, Jel,) in their course: (Fr, S, Jel:) when you see a star [thereof] in the end of a sign of the zodiac, it returns to the beginning of it: (Jel:) or because of their retrogression; for they are the erratic stars (الكَوَاكِبُ المُتَحَيَّرِةُ), which [at one time appear to] retrograde, and [at another time to] pursue a direct [and forward] course: (S:) or because they sometimes return (تخنس) in their course until they become concealed in the light of the sun: (TA:) or because they hide themselves, as the devil does at the mention of God. (K, TA.) ― -b3- And hence, i. e., from خَانِسٌ in the sense of مُتَأَخِّرٌ, the saying in a trad. of El- Hajjáj, الاـِبِلُ ضِمَّرٌ خِنَّسٌ, meaning, (assumed tropical:) [ Camels are lean, and lank in the belly, and] patient of thirst. (TA.) ― -b4- And اللَّيَالِى الخُنَّسُ The three nights of the lunar month during which the moon retires [ from view ]. (TA.)

أَخْنَسُ ذ [ Having a camous, or camoys, nose; ] having the configuration termed خَنَسٌ in the nose: (S, Msb, K:) [see خَنِسَ الأَنْفُ:] accord. to some, having a nose of which the bone is short and the end turning back towards its bone: (TA:) fem. خَنْسَاآءُ: (S, Msb:) pl. خُنْسٌ. (S, A.) ↓ خَنَسٌ in its original application is in gazelles and bulls and cows: (TA:) all bulls and cows are خُنْس, (S, A, TA,) and so are all gazelles: (TA:) or ↓ خُنُسٌ, with two dammehs, (K,) but written by Sh خُنْسٌ, (TA,) is used to signify gazelles: and bulls or cows: (K:) and خَنْسَاآءُ is an epithet applied to the wild cow: (K:) also أَخْنَسُ, to the tick: (Sgh, K:) and the lion; and so ↓ خِنَّوْسٌ; (K;) which last is an epithet so applied as relating to his face and his nose: (Fr, TA:) and the last, ↓ خنّوس, is also applied to a young pig: (As, TA:) or in this sense it is with ص: (Fr, TA:) and ↓ خَنَاسٌ is syn, with خِنَّوْسٌ. (TA.) ― -b2- [Hence,] خُنْسٌ is metaphorically applied [as an epithet] to arrows, in the following verse, describing a coat of mail: لَهَا عُكَنٌ تَرُدُّ النَّبْلَ خُنْسًا وَتْهْزَأُ بِا@لْمَعَابِلِ وَا@لْقِطَاعِ [ It has folds which repel the arrows turned up at the points, and mock at the broad and long, and the small and broad, arrow-heads ]. (TA.) ― -b3- قَدَمٌ خَنْسَاآءُ A foot flat in the hollow part of the sole, and fleshy. (TA.)

خَنْسَرٌ خنسر : and خِنْسِرٌ: and خَنْسَرِىٌّ: and خِنْسِيرٌ: and خَنَاسِرُ: and خَنَاسِيرُ: see art. خسر.

خِنْصِيصٌ خنصيص : see خِنَّوْصَةٌ.

خِنَوْصٌ خنوص The young of the swine: (Ibn-'Abbád, S, K:) and the young, or little, of anything: (K:) pl. خَنَانِيصُ. (S, K.) [See also خِنَّوْسٌ.]

خِنَّوْصَةٌ خنوص خنوصه خنوصة The young of the بَبْر, q. v.; (K;) as also ↓ خِنْصِيصٌ. (Sgh, K.) ― -b2- Also A palm-tree which does not rise beyond reach of the hand. (Ibn-'Abbád, K.)

خِنْصِرٌ خنصر (S, Msb, K) and خِنْصَرٌ, (A, K,) the latter [of a rare form,] like دِرْهَمٌ, (TA,) The little finger: (S, A, K:) or the middle finger: (K:) the latter signification said by MF to be unknown; but it is mentioned in the L, as from the Book of Sb: (TA:) [and the little toe: ] of the fem. gender: (Msb, K:) pl. خَنَاصِرُ: (Sb, S, K:) like فِرْسِنٌ, it has no pl. formed by the addition of ات: (Sb:) its pl. is also used as a sing., as though every part were termed خنصر; as in the phrase اـِنَّهُ لَعَظِيمُ الخَنَاصِرِ [ Verily he has a large little finger ]. (Lh.) You say, فُلَانٌ تُثْنَى بِهِ الخَنَاصِرُ [ The little fingers are bent in mentioning such a one with others of his class]: i. e., one begins with him in mentioning persons of his class. (Msb.) [See 1 in art. ثنى.] And in like manner you say, عَدُّوهُ بِالخِنْصِرِ [ They counted him with the little finger ]: i. e., they commenced with him in counting. (MF.)

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.)

4 أَخْنَعَتَنِى اـِلَيْكَ الحَاجَةُ ذ (S, K *) Want, or need, made me lowly, humble, or submissive, to thee; or constrained me to have recourse to thee, and to require thine aid. (S, * K.)

خَنَعٌ خنع [app. inf. n. of خَنِعَ,] Lowness, vileness, baseness, abjectness, or submissiveness; almost always, in an improper case. (Ham p. 44.)

خَنِعٌ خنع [app. part. n. of خَنِعَ,] Low, vile, base, abject, or submissive. (KL.) [See what next precedes.]

خَنْعَةٌ خنع خنعه خنعة A thing that induces suspicion or evil opinion; (S, K;) a vitious, or an immoral, act; or adultery; or fornication. (K.) [See a remark on one of the pls. of خَانِعٌ.] You say, اِطَّلَعَتْ مِنْ فُلَانٍ عَلَى خَنْعَةٍ I became acquainted with, or got knowledge of, a vitious, or an immoral, act of such a one. (TA.) And وَقَعَ فِى خَنْعَةٍ He fell into a thing of which one is ashamed. (TA.) -A2- A vacant place. (O, L, K.) You say, لَقِيتُهُ بِخَنْعَةٍ فَقَهَرْتُهُ I found him, or met him, in a vacant place, and I overcame him. (K, * TA.)

خُنْعَةٌ خنع خنعه خنعة Necessity, or constraint: and excuse. (TA.) ― -b2- رَجُلٌ ذُو خُنُعَاتٍ A man in whom is corruptness, or vitiousness, or corrupt or vitious conduct. (TA.)

خَنُوعٌ خنوع Perfidious, unfaithful, or treacherous; one who breaks his compact, contract, covenant, or the like. (Ibn-'Abbád, K.) ― -b2- One who turns away from, or shuns, or avoids, another. (Ibn- 'Abbád, K.)

خَنَاعَةٌ خناعه خناعة The state of being bad, evil, abominable, foul, unseemly, ugly, or hideous; or excessively bad, &c. (TA.)

خَانِعٌ خانع One who acts in a suspicious manner, or so as to induce suspicion or evil opinion; who acts vitiously, or immorally; or commits adultery, or fornication: (S, K:) pl. خُنُعٌ (K, TA) and خَنَعَةٌ. (TA.) El-Aashà says, هُمْ الخَضَارِمُ اـِنْ غَابُوا وَ اـِنْ شَهِدُوا وَ لَا يَرَوْنَ اـِلَى جَارَاتِهِمْ خُنُعَا [ They are the bountiful, if they be absent and if they be present; and they do not see persons acting in a suspicious manner, &c., towards their wives ]. (TA.) [The latter hemistich of this verse is cited in the S; in one copy of which I find يُرَوْنَ in the place of يَرَوْنَ: and it seems to be there implied that خُنُعٌ is pl. of خُنْعَةٌ; but I do not know any instance of فُعُلٌ as the measure of a pl. of a word of the measure فَعْلَةٌ.] ― -b2- One who commits a foul action whereof the disgrace returns upon him, and is ashamed of it, and hangs down his head towards the ground. (As, on the authority of an Arab of the desert.)

أَخْنَعُ الأَسْمَاآءِ عِنْدَ ا@للّٰهِ مَلِكُ الأَمْلَاكِ ذ , (K,) or اـِلَى ا@للّٰهِ, (TA,) The vilest and most abasing (أَذَلُّ and أَقْهَرُ) of names, (K,) for a man, and the most effectual to bring into a state of humility and humiliation, in the estimation of God, is “ king of kings; ” like [the Persian] شَاهِنْشَاهْ; because this name belongs to God himself: a trad., which is variously related: (TA:) accord. to different relations, thus, and أَنْخَعُ, (K,) meaning “ most effectual to kill, and destroy, ” its owner, (TA,) and أَبْخَعُ, [which means the same,] (K, TA, [in the CK اَنْجَعُ,]) and أَخْنَى, (K,) meaning “ most foul, abominable, or the like. ” (TA in art. خنى.)

مُخَنَّعٌ مخنع applied to a camel, Broke; trained; rendered submissive, or manageable. (K, TA.) And in like manner applied to a place [app. as meaning Rendered easy to sit, or lie, upon; or, to travel ]. (TA.)

خُنْفَسٌ خنفس and its variations: see what here follows.

خُنْفَسَاآءُ خنفساآء (S, Msb, K) [in two copies of the S, in which it is without the article, written without tenween, but in the Msb and K it has the article prefixed, and is therefore necessarily without tenween,] and خُنْفُسَاآء, (Msb, TA,) which is more common, (Msb,) [but this I doubt, for I have found it nowhere else,] and ↓ خُنْفَسٌ (S, K) and خُنْفُسٌ (TA) and خِنْفِسٌ, (K,) which last is of the dial. of the people of El-Basrah, (TA,) and خُنْفُسَةٌ and خُنْفُسَةٌ, (K,) [The black beetle: or a certain species thereof: ] a well-known creeping thing; (Msb;) a certain insect, (S, K,) black, (K,) of fetid odour, smaller than the جُعَل, found in the bottoms of walls: (TA:) the first and second of these words are both applied to the male and the female: (Msb:) or خُنْفَسٌ is applied to the male, (AA, Msb,) by some of the Arabs, (Msb,) and is syn. with عُنْظَبٌ and حُنْظَبٌ, (AA, TA,) and خُنْفُسٌ is not disallowable, being agree- able with analogy: (Msb:) and خُنْفَسَاءَةٌ is applied to the female, [which, if correct, shows خنفساآء to be with tenween,] and so is خُنْفَسَةٌ: (S:) or خنفساءة, with ة, is not allowable; [and if so, خنفساآء is without tenween;] (As, TA;) and خنفسة is [not applied to the female, but] used by the Benoo-Asad for خنفساآء, as though they made the ة a substitute for the ا: (Msb:) [and this seems to indicate that the ا is a fem. ا, grammatically speaking, and that the word is therefore without tenween:] the pl. is خَنَافِسُ. (Msb.) One says, هُوَ أَلَحُّ مِنَ الخُنْفَسَاآءِ [ He is more persevering than the black beetle ]: because it returns to thee as often as thou throwest it away. (TA.) [Accord. to the K, the ن in the words of this art. is radical; but accord. to the S and Msb, augmentative.]

1 خَنَقَهُ خنق خنقه خنقة , (S, Mgh, Msb, K,) aor. خَنُقَ , (S, Msb,) inf. n. خَنِقٌ (S Mgh, Msb, K) and خَنْقٌ, (Msb, TA,) the latter a contraction of the former, (Msb,) or, accord. to El-Fárábee, the latter is not allowable, (Mgh,) He throttled him, or strangled him, i. e. squeezed his throat (Mgh, Msb) that he might die; (Msb;) [but it does not always mean he squeezed his throat so that he died; often meaning, simply, he, or it, throttled him, strangled him, or choked him; and frequently said of a disease in the throat, and of food;] and ↓ خنّقهُ signifies the same, (S, K,) [or has an intensive meaning,] and its inf. n. is تَخْنِيقٌ. (TA.) ― -b2- [Hence,] العَبْرَةُ ↓ خَنَّقَتْهُ [and خَنَقَتْهُ] (assumed tropical:) Weeping [or sobbing ] choked him; as though the tears throttled him. (Mgh.) ― -b3- And خُنِقَ He (a horse) was affected with the disease, or wind in the throat, termed خُنَاقِيَّة. (TA.) ― -b4- And خَنَقَ الوَقْتَ, aor. as above, (assumed tropical:) He postponed, or deferred, and [ so ] straitened, the time: and خَنَقَ الصَّلَاةَ (assumed tropical:) He straitened the time of prayer by postponing it, or deferring it. (TA.)

2 خَنَّقَ see 1, in two places. ― -b2- You say also, خنّق السَّرَابُ الجِبَالَ, inf. n. تَخْنِيقٌ, (tropical:) The mirage nearly covered the heads of the mountains. (K, TA.) ― -b3- And خنّق الاـِنَاآءَ (tropical:) He filled the vessel: (K, TA:) or filled it up (سَدَّدَ مَلْأَهُ): and in like manner, الحَوْضَ [ the watering-trough ]. (Aboo-Sa'eed, TA.) ― -b4- And خنّق الأَرْبَعِينَ (tropical:) He (a man) nearly attained to [the age of] forty [years]. (K, TA.)

7 اـِنْخَنَقَ see what next follows, in three places.