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رَنَنٌ ذ A certain thing that utters a cry [or sound] يَصِيحُ [in one of my copies of the S يَطِيحُ]) in the water, (S, K,) or in still water, (so in one copy of the S,) in the صَيْف [i. e. spring or summer], (S,) or in winter. (K.) A poet says, “ وَلَمْ يَصْدَحْ لَهُ الرَّنَنُ
” [And the رنن did not raise its voice at him, or it]. (S.) ― -b2- Also A small quantity of water. (TA.)
An Arabic-English Lexicon. London. Williams and Norgate. 1863.

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