خنع

Root entry · 23 derived lemmas

This root primarily deals with concepts of submission, humility, and subservience, often in a negative or forced context. It extends to meanings of betrayal, yielding, and even physical actions like cutting. The root also encompasses terms for specific types of garments and geographical locations.

Derived headwords

الخنوعnoun

1.
Submission, subservienceboth
The state of being submissive, humble, or subservient, often implying a lack of dignity or willingness.
2.
Betrayal, treacheryclassical
An act of disloyalty or treachery.

خنع له وإليهverb

1.
To submit to, to yield toboth
To submit to someone or something, to humble oneself before them, and to seek their favor, even if they are not worthy of being sought.

خنوعاnoun

1.
Submission, subservienceboth
The act or state of submission and subservience.

أخنعته الحاجةverb

1.
To make submissive, to forceboth
To make someone submissive or to force them into a state of subservience due to need or necessity.

الخنعةnoun

1.
Submission, subservienceboth
The state of being submissive or subservient.
2.
A shameful act, indecencyboth
An act of indecency, depravity, or something shameful that causes embarrassment.
3.
Betrayal, treacheryclassical
An act of betrayal or treachery.
4.
Suspicion, doubtclassical
A feeling of suspicion or doubt.

أخنعverb

1.
To make submissive, to humiliateboth
To make someone submissive or to humiliate them.

الخنعة والخناعةnoun

1.
The name, the titleclassical
Refers to a name or title.

مخنعadjective

1.
Submissive, yieldingclassical
Describing a camel that is submissive or yielding.

موضعadjective

1.
Submissive, yieldingclassical
Describing a camel that is submissive or yielding.

ذو خنعاتadjective

1.
Corrupt, depravedclassical
Describing a person who possesses corruption or depravity.

خنع إلى الأمر السيءverb

1.
To incline towards, to lean towardsboth
To incline towards or lean towards something bad or evil.

الخانعadjective

1.
Depraved, wickedboth
Describing someone who is wicked, depraved, or a transgressor.
2.
Submissive, humbleboth
Describing someone who is submissive or humble.
3.
Suspicious, untrustworthyclassical
Describing someone who is suspicious or untrustworthy.

خنع إليهاverb

1.
To approach for fornicationclassical
To approach a woman for the purpose of illicit sexual relations.
2.
To listen to, to pay attention toclassical
To listen to or pay attention to something.

خنعاnoun

1.
Submission, subservienceboth
The act or state of submission and subservience.
2.
Fornicationclassical
The act of illicit sexual relations.

خنوعnoun

1.
Submission, subservienceboth
The act or state of submission and subservience.
2.
Betrayal, treacheryclassical
An act of betrayal or treachery.

خنع بهverb

1.
To betray, to act deceitfullyclassical
To betray someone or to act deceitfully towards them.

التخنيعnoun

1.
Cutting with an axeclassical
The act of cutting something with an axe.

بخلاءnoun

1.
Stinginess, parsimonyclassical
The quality of being stingy or parsimonious.

الخنبعnoun

1.
A type of head coveringclassical
A type of sewn head covering, similar to a mask, that covers the back and shoulders, larger than a 'qanbu'a'.

الخنبعةnoun

1.
A type of head coveringclassical
A type of sewn head covering, similar to a mask, that covers the back and shoulders, larger than a 'qanbu'a'.
2.
Sheath of a tree's blossomclassical
The protective covering of a tree's blossom.

الهنبعnoun

1.
A type of head coveringclassical
A smaller type of sewn head covering.

بنو خناعةname

1.
Banu Khana'ahclassical
A tribe or clan among the Arabs, specifically a branch of the Banu Hudhayl.

خناعةname

1.
Khana'ahclassical
A tribe or clan among the Arabs, specifically a branch of the Banu Hudhayl.

Parallel reading

الخنوع: الخضوع والذل.

Al-khunūʿ: submission and humiliation.

خنع له وإليه يخنع خنوعا: ضرع إليه وخضع وطلب إليه وليس بأهل أن يطلب إليه.

He submitted to him and towards him, he submits with submission: he pleaded with him, submitted to him, and sought from him, even though he was not worthy to be sought from.

وأخنعته الحاجة إليه: أخضعته واضطرته، والاسم الخنعة.

And need made him submissive to it: it made him submissive and forced him, and the noun is al-khunʿah.

إن أخنع الأسماء إلى الله، تبارك وتعالى، من تسمى باسم ملك الأملاك أي أذلها وأوضعها؛

Indeed, the most despised of names to God, may He be glorified, is he who names himself king of kings, meaning he debases and lowers it;

ويقال للجمل المنوق: مخنع وموضع.

And the stubborn camel is called: mukhniʿ and mawḍiʿ.

ورجل ذو خنعات إذا كان فيه فساد.

And a man with khunʿāt is one who has corruption in him.

وخنع فلان إلى الأمر السيء إذا مال إليه.

And so-and-so inclined towards the bad deed when he leaned towards it.

والخانع: الفاجر.

And al-khāniʿ: the wicked one.

وخنع إليها خنعا وخنوعا: أتاها للفجور، وقيل: أصغى إليها.

And he approached her with submission and subservience: he came to her for fornication, and it was said: he listened to her.

ويقال: اطلعت منه على خنعة أي فجرة.

And it is said: I discovered from him an act of indecency, meaning depravity.

ووقع في خنعة أي فيما يستحيا منه.

And he fell into a shameful act, meaning something that one is shy of.

وخنع به يخنع: غدر؛

And he betrayed him, he betrays: he was treacherous;

غير أن الأيام يخنعن بالمرء، ... وفيها العوصاء والميسور

Except that days betray a person, ... and in them is hardship and ease.

والخانع: الذليل الخاضع؛

And al-khāniʿ: the humble, the submissive;

وشمرت إذ خنعوا.

And I girded myself when they submitted.

التخنيع: القطع بالفأس؛

Al-takhnīʿ: cutting with an axe;

كأنهم، على حنفاء، خشب ... مصرعة أخنعها بفأس

As if they, on a slope, were logs ... felled by an axe.

ويقال: لقيت فلانا بخنعة فقهرته أي لقيته بخلاء.

And it is said: I met so-and-so with stinginess and overcame him, meaning I met him with stinginess.

لئن لقيتك بخنعة لا تفلت مني؛

If I meet you with stinginess, you will not escape me;

يا رب أعوذ بك من الخنوع والكنوع، فسألته عنهما فقال الخنوع الغدر.

O Lord, I seek refuge in You from al-khunūʿ and al-kunūʿ, so I asked him about them, and he said al-khunūʿ is betrayal.

والخانع: الذي يضع رأسه للسوءة يأتي أمرا قبيحا فيرجع عاره عليه فيستحيي منه وينكس رأسه.

And al-khāniʿ: he who lowers his head in shame for an evil deed, commits an ugly act, and its shame returns upon him, so he feels shy and lowers his head.

الخنبع والخنبعة جميعا: القنبعة تخاط كالمقنعة تغطي المتنين إلا أنها أكبر من القنبعة.

Al-khunbaʿ and al-khunbaʿah both: a sewn head covering like a mask that covers the shoulders, but it is larger than a qanbuʿah.

والخنبعة: غلاف نور الشجرة.

And al-khunbaʿah: the sheath of a tree's blossom.

والخنبع ما اتسع منها حتى تبلغ اليدين وتغطيهما.

And al-khunbaʿ is what is wide of it until it reaches the hands and covers them.

ما له هنبع ولا خنبع.

He has neither henbaʿ nor khunbaʿ.