Classical Arabic - English Dictionary

خَنَثَ, (Lth, L,) aor. ـِ {يَخْنِثُ}, inf. n. خَنْثٌ, (L,) He folded, or doubled, a skin for water or milk, and a sack. (Lth, L.) And خَنَثَ السِّقَآءَ, (Ṣ, A, Mgh, Ḳ, TA,) and فَمَ السِّقَآءِ, (A, TA,) andاختنث↓ السقآءِ, (Ṣ, A,* Mgh, Ḳ,) He doubled the skin, (Ṣ, Ḳ,) or the mouth of the skin, (A, Mgh, TA,) outwards, (Ṣ, A, Mgh, Ḳ,) or inside-out, (TA,) and drank from it; (Ṣ, Mgh, Ḳ;) the doing of which is forbidden (Mgh, TA) by Moḥammad: (TA:) when you double it inwards, you say, قَبَعْتُهُ: (Ṣ, A, Mgh:) or خَنَثَ فَمَ السِّقَآءِ 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.)

[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 Ḳ, خَنَثَهُ, aor. ـِ {يَخْنِثُ}, he mocked at, scoffed at, derided, or ridiculed, him. (TA.)

خَنَثٌ, aor. ـَ {يَخْنَثُ}, (L, Mṣb, Ḳ,) inf. n. خَنَثٌ; (A, Mṣb, TA;) andانخث↓, (Ṣ, A, L, Mṣb, Ḳ,) andتخنّث↓; (A, L, Ḳ;) 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: (Ṣ, A, L, Ḳ:) [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. (Mṣb.) ʼÁïsheh, describing the death of Moḥammad, says, اِنْخَنَثَ↓ فِى حَجْرِى, meaning He became bent and languid (اِنْثَنَى وَتَكَسَّرَ), by reason of the flaccidness of his limbs, in my bosom. (TA.)

خنّثهُ, (Ṣ, Ḳ,) inf. n. تَخْنِيثٌ, (Ḳ,) He bent it; (Ṣ, Ḳ;) namely, a thing. (Ṣ.) Hence the epithet مُخَنَّثٌ. (Ṣ, Ḳ.)

He made him to be, or become, such as is termed خَنِثٌ. (Mṣb.)

خنّث كَلَامَهُ He made his speech like that of women, in softness and gentleness: so some say. (Mṣb.)

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.)

تخنّث It (a thing, Ṣ) bent, or became bent. (Ṣ, Ḳ.)

Also i. q. خَنِثَ, q. v. (A,* L, Ḳ.) 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 Ṣ and Ḳ in art. طوس.] And تخنّث فِى كَلَامِهِ [He was soft, or effeminate, in his speech]. (Ṣ, Mgh.)

He (a man, &c.) fell down by reason of weakness. (TA.)

انخنثت القِرْبَةُ The water-skin became folded, or doubled. (L.)

انخنثت عُنُقُهُ His neck inclined, or bent. (TA.)

See also 1, in two places.

خُنْثٌ 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]: (Ṣ, L:) as alsoخِنَاثَةٌ↓. (Mṣb.) Jereer says,

* أَتُوعِدُنِى وَأَنْتَ مُجَاشِعِىٌّ *

* أَرَى فِى خُنْثِ لِحْيَتِكَ ٱضْطِرَابَا *

[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]. (Ṣ.)

خِنْثٌ, with kesr, sing. of أَخْنَاثٌ and خِنَاثٌ, (TA,) which signify The creases, or places of folding, of a garment, or piece of cloth. (Ḳ, 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 † The night cast the folds of its darkness upon the earth. (TA.)

Also the former pl., (TA,) and the latter also, (Ḳ,) The parts of the دَلْو [or bucket] whence the water pours forth, between the عَرَاقِى. (Ḳ, TA.)

The sing. also signifies The interior of the part of the cheek by the side of the mouth, next the molar teeth, (Ḳ, TA,) above and below. (TA.)

And A company in a state of dispersion. (Ḳ.)

خَنِثٌ 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, Ḳ:) or flaccid, or flabby, and affecting a bending, or an inclining of the body, from side to side: (Ṣ:) [or effeminate; like مُخَنَّثٌ]: or one in whom is softness, delicacy, tenderness, flabbiness, laxness, or limberness, and an affectation of languor, or languidness: (Mṣb:) fem. with ة {خَنِثَةٌ}. (TA.) Andخُنُثٌ↓ (TA) andمِخْنَاثٌ↓, (Ḳ,) applied to a woman, (Ḳ, TA,) Soft, delicate, tender, flabby, lax, or limber, (TA,) and affecting languor, or languidness: (Ḳ, TA:) pl. of the latter مَخَانِيثُ. (TA.) One says to such a woman, يَاخَنَاثِ↓, (Ḳ,) [indecl.,] like قَطَامِ; (TA;) and to a man [of the same description], يَا خُنَثُ↓. (Ḳ.)

[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, (Ṣ, Mgh, Ḳ,) together; (Ṣ, Ḳ;) one who has, by creation, the anterior pudendum of a man and that of a woman: (Mṣb:) 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 (Ṣ, Mgh, Mṣb, Ḳ) and خِنَاثٌ. (Mṣb, Ḳ.)

Also The plant called بَرْوَاقٌ [i. e. the asphodel]. (Ḳ in art. برق.)

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

أَخْنَثُ مِنْ دَلَالِ [More effeminate, or more incapable of venery, than Delál]: a prov. (Ṣ, 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, from خَنَّثَ “he bent,” (Ṣ, Ḳ,) because of his softness, delicacy, tenderness, flabbiness, laxness, or limberness, and affectation of languor, or languidness; (TA;) or from خُنْثَى; (Kh, JK, MṢ;) 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 andمُخَنِّثٌ↓: (TA:) this latter is explained by some as meaning one who makes his speech like that of women, in softness and gentleness: (Mṣb, 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↓ andخُنَيْثَةُ↓ [each imperfectly decl.]. (Ḳ, TA.)