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