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خَشْخَشَةٌ ذ The [clashing, clattering, chinking, jingling, rattling, or rustling,] sound of arms, or weapons, (S, A, * K,) and the like; (S;) as also شَخْشَخَةٌ, but this latter is a dial. var. of weak authority: (TA:) and of any dry or hard thing rubbing against another such thing: (K:) accord. to IDrd, such [sound or thing (for his words are ambiguous)] is termed ↓ خَشْخَاشٌ : (TA:) and the [rustling] sound of a new garment or piece of cloth, when it is put in motion; as also نَشْنَشَةٌ: (IAar:) and [a confused sound] such as is heard to proceed from the inside of an animal on its being hit by an arrow: (JK in art. خشف:) and a motion having a sound like the sound of arms, or weapons; (TA;) or an audible motion. (Mgh in art. خشف.)
An Arabic-English Lexicon. London. Williams and Norgate. 1863.
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