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حَنْتَمٌ حان حنتم A green جَرَّة [or jar], (S, K,) to which some add, including to redness: (TA:) or winejars, (A 'Obeyd, Nh,) glazed, or varnished, green, (Nh,) which used to be carried to El-Medeeneh, with wine in them: (A 'Obeyd, Nh:) the use of which, for preparing نَبِيذ therein, is forbidden in a trad., because it quickly became potent in them, by reason of the glazing, or varnish; or, as some say, because they used to be made of clay kneaded with blood and hair; but the former is the right reason: afterwards applied to any jars, or pottery: (Nh:) thus some explain it as a sing.; (MF;) and the pl. is حَنَاتِمُ: (Az, TA:) others, as a pl. [or coll. gen. n.], of which the sing. [or n. un.] is with ة: (MF:) some say that the ن is augmentative: so says the author of the Msb: others, that it is radical. (TA.) [See art. حتم.] ― -b2- Black clouds; (Az, K;) as also [the pl.] حَنَاتِمُ: (Az, S, K:) because, with the Arabs, السَّوَادُ is [used for] خُضْرَةٌ: (S: [see أَسْوَدُ; and see also حَنْتَمٌ in art. حتم:]) or as being likened to حَنَاتِم (meaning jars) filled [with water]: (Az, TA:) n. un. with ة. (K.) ― -b3- The colocynthplant; (K, TA;) because of its intense greenness: n. un. with ة. (TA.)
An Arabic-English Lexicon. London. Williams and Norgate. 1863.

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