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غُنَّةٌ ذ [mentioned above as an inf. n. of غَنَّ but generally expl. as a simple subst. signifying A sort of nasal sound, or twang:] a sound that comes forth from the nose; (Ham p. 339;) a sound (S, Msb) in, (S,) or that comes forth from, (Msb,) the خَيْشُوم [app. here meaning the innermost part of the air-passages of the nose]: (S, Msb:) or a sound from the لَهَاة [q. v., app. here meaning the arches, or pillars, of the soft palate, or the furthest part of the mouth,] and the nose, like [that which is heard in the utterance of] the ن of مِنْكَ and عَنْكَ, for the tongue has not part in it: (Mgh:) or the flowing [or passage] of the speech in the لَهَاة [app. here also meaning as expl. above]: (K:) or a mixture of the sound of the خَيْشُوم [expl. above] in the pronunciation of a letter: (Mbr, TA:) ن is that one of the letters in which it is greatest in degree: (Kh, Mgh, Msb, TA:) خُنَّةٌ is [a sound] greater in degree than غُنَّةٌ. (TA.) ― -b2- [Also The roughness of the voice, of a boy, consequent upon the attaining to puberty; or, as Mtr says,] الغُنَّةُ signifies also what is incident to the boy on the occasion of his attaining to puberty, when his voice becomes rough. (Mgh.) ― -b3- And A soft, or gentle, plaintive, and melodious, voice, in singing. (Har p. 645.) See 4. ― -b4- And The sound [or humming] produced by the flying of flies; (TA;) and ↓ غُنَانٌ [likewise] signifies the sound of flies. (K, TA.) [See مُغِنٌّ and أَغَنُّ. And see also an ex. voce ثُنَّةٌ: and another voce عُنَّةٌ.] ― -b5- And the poet Yezeed Ibn-El-Aawar has used it in relation to the sounding of stones: (K:) [or rather] he has so used the epithet ↓ أَغَنّ . (TA.)
An Arabic-English Lexicon. London. Williams and Norgate. 1863.
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