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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.)
An Arabic-English Lexicon. London. Williams and Norgate. 1863.
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