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خَنْسَرٌ خنسر and ↓ خَنْسَرِىٌّ A man in a place [or condition] of خُسْرَان [or loss, &c.]: (K in the present art. and in art. خنسر:) pl. خَنَاسِرَةٌ. (K in art. خنسر.) ― -b2- And [the pl.] الخَنَاسِرَةُ, in several copies of the K, in other copies of the K ↓ الخَاسِرَةُ , but correctly ↓ الخَنَاسِرُ , (TA,) The weak of mankind; (K, TA;) and the small, or little, of them; (TA;) as also ↓ الخَنَاسِيرُ , in the former sense, (K and TA in art. خنسر,) and in the latter sense also: (TA in that art.:) and أَهْلُ الخِيَانَةِ; (K and TA in this art.; and K in art. خنسر, accord. to several copies;) i. e. The people of perfidy, unfaithfulness, or treachery; and of baseness, ignobleness, ungenerousness, or meanness: (TA in the present art.:) or اهل الجبانة; because of their weakness; (TA in art. خنسر;) [as though meaning the people of cowardice (الجَبَانَة): or it may mean the people of the burial-ground (الجَبَّانَة); for, accord. to AHát, ↓ الخناسير signifies those who conduct [to the burial-ground] the corpse or the bier with the corpse; perhaps from خَنَاسِرُ meaning “ small, or little, and weak men. ” (TA.)
An Arabic-English Lexicon. London. Williams and Norgate. 1863.
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