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سُخْنٌ ذ an inf. n. of 1 [q. v.]. (MA, L, K.) ― -b2- Also Hot, or warm; (MA, PS;) i. q. حَارٌّ; (S, MA, Mgh, L, K;) contr. of بَارِدٌ; (JK, L;) an epithet applied to water, (JK, MA, Mgh, L,) &c.; (Msb;) as is also (in the same sense, JK, MA, Mgh, L) ↓ سَخِينٌ , (JK, S, MA, Mgh, L, Msb, K,) and ↓ سَاخِنٌ , (Msb,) and ↓ مُسْخَنٌ , syn. with سَخِينٌ like as مُبْرَمٌ is with بَرِيمٌ, &c., (IAar, S, L,) or ↓ مُسَخَّنٌ , [which is syn. with مُسْخَنٌ as meaning heated, or warmed,] like مُعَظَّمٌ [in measure], (K,) and ↓ سِخِّينٌ , (L, K,) and ↓ سُخَاخِينٌ , which is the only instance of the measure, (S, L, K, [which measure is said in the S to be فُعَاعِيلٌ, but in the K فُعَالِيلٌ,]) and which is also applied to food; (L;) syn. حَارٌّ: (L, K:) or, accord. to AA, ↓ سَخِينٌ , applied to water, means neither hot nor cold; as also سَخِيمٌ. (L.) And يَوْمٌ سُخْنٌ and ↓ سَاخِنٌ (S, L, Msb, K) and ↓ سَخْنَانٌ or ↓ سَخَنَانٌ , (accord. to different copies of the S,) or both these, (K,) and ↓ سُخْنَانٌ , (L, K, * [in the CK and in my MS. copy of the K written سُخْنَانُ, which is incorrect, and in like manner سَخْنَانٌ is there written ↓ سَخْنَانُ , but this, as well as سَخْنَانٌ, may be correct, for it appears that سَخْنَان has سَخْنَآءُ for its fem. as well as سَخْنَانَةٌ,]) and ↓ سُخَاخِينٌ signifies the same, [i. e. A hot, or warm, day,] or, accord. to IAar, ↓ يَوْمٌ سُخَاخِينٌ signifies a day that is [so hot as to be] hurtful, and painful: (L:) and لَيْلَةٌ سُخْنَةٌ (S, L, Msb, K) and ↓ سَاخِنَةٌ (L, Msb, K) and ↓ سَخْنَانَةٌ or ↓ سَخَنَانَةٌ , (S, accord. to different copies,) or both, (K,) and ↓ سُخْنَانَةٌ , (L, K,) [i. e. a hot, or warm, night,] or ↓ يَوْمٌ سَخَنَانٌ signifies a day intensely hot, and ↓ لَيْلَةٌ سَخْنَآءُ [the latter word being fem. of سَخْنَانُ] a sultry night, or intensely hot so that it takes away the breath: (JK:) and it is said in a trad. of Mo'áwiyeh Ibn-Kurrah, ↓ شَرُّ الشِّتَآءِ السَّخِينُ , meaning [The worst of winter is] the hot in which is no cold; in the “ Ghareeb ” of El- Harbee, ↓ السُّخَيْخِينُ , expl. as meaning the same, but this is probably a mistranscription. (L.)
An Arabic-English Lexicon. London. Williams and Norgate. 1863.

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