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4 اخنسهُ أخنس أخنسه اخنسه اخنسة He made him to go back or backwards; to recede, retreat, retire, or retrograde: or he put him, or placed him, or made him to be, behind, or after: or he made him to remain behind, hold back, hang back, or lag behind: or he kept him back: or he delayed, or retarded, him: syn. أَخَّرَهُ: (T, A, Msb, K:) as also ↓ خَنَسَهُ , (Fr, T, A, Mgh, Msb, K,) aor. خَنِسَ , (Msb,) [and app., accord. to the K, خَنُسَ also,] inf. n. خَنْسٌ; (Msb;) but the former is the more common: (TA:) and (tropical:) hid him, or it: or made him, or it, to hide himself or itself; (A;) or he left behind, (As, S:) and went away from, (S,) him, or it: (As, S:) or both signify he contracted, or drew together, or made to contract or draw together, him [or it]: (Msb:) or the latter verb has this signification as well as that of أَخَّرَهُ: (Mgh:) [and so has the former also, as will be seen below:] and the former also signifies (tropical:) he hid, or concealed, him, or it; (A;) as also بِهِ ↓ خَنَسَ , as mentioned above. (TA.) You say, أَخْنَسْتُ عَنْهُ بَعْضَ حَقِّهِ I kept back (أَخَّرْتُ) from him part of his right, or due. (Fr, TA.) And أَخْنَسُوا الطَّرِيقَ (tropical:) They passed beyond the road: (AA, TA:) or left it behind them: (TA:) or passed beyond it and left it behind them. (A.) And أَشَارَ بِأَرْبَعٍ وَأَخْنَسَ إِِبْهَامَهُ, (A,) and ↓ خَنَسَهَا , (Mgh, Msb, K,) He [made a sign with four fingers and] contracted his thumb. (Mgh, Msb, K.) It is related of Mohammad, that he said, “ The month is thus and thus, ” [twice extending the fingers and thumb of each hand,] and that, the third time, إِِصْبَعَهُ ↓ خَنَسَ , i. e., he contracted his finger, [meaning, one of his fingers,] to inform them that the month is nine and twenty [nights with their days]. (TA.)
An Arabic-English Lexicon. London. Williams and Norgate. 1863.
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