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حَنِينٌ حنين an inf. n. of 1: (S, Msb, K:) A yearning, longing, or desire; (S, K;) a yearning, or longing, of the soul: (S:) or the expression of pain arising from yearning or longing or desire: (Ham p. 538:) violence of weeping: and a lively emotion: or the sound produced by such emotion, proceeding from grief, or from joy: (K:) or a sound proceeding from the bosom on the occasion of weeping: خَنِينٌ is from the nose: (TA:) or the former is [a sound] without weeping and without tears: if with weeping, it is termed خَنِينٌ: (R, TA:) or the former is a yearning, or longing, or desire, with affection, or pity, or compassion; as when one speaks of the حنين of a woman and of a she-camel for her young one: and sometimes this is accompanied with a sound, or cry; wherefore it is explained as a sound, or cry, indicating yearning or longing or desire, and affection or pity or compassion: and sometimes it is confined to the form; as in the case of the حنين [or leaning, or inclining,] of the trunk of a palm-tree [which is mentioned in a trad.]: (Er-Rághib:) the حنين of the she-camel is ber cry in her yearning towards her young one: (S:) or her yearning towards her young one with a cry, and without a cry; (Lth, TA;) mostly the former: originally, her reiterating her [yearning] cry after her young one. (TA.) You say also, رِيحٌ لَهَا حَنِينٌ كَحَنِينِ الإِِبِلِ (assumed tropical:) [A wind that has a plaintive, or moaning, or perhaps a shrill, sound, like the حنين of camels]. (S, K *) ― -b2- See also حَنَّةٌ -A2- حَنِينٌ and الحَنِينُ, and ↓ حِنِّينٌ and الحِنِّينُ, two names of [The months called] جُمَادَى الأُولَى and الآخِرَةُ: (K:) or حَنِينٌ is a name of جمادى الاولى, like a proper name; as also الحَنِينُ: (M, TA:) or the name by which the tribe of 'Ád called جمادى الآخرة: (Ibn-El-Kelbee, in TA voce مُؤْتَمِرٌ: see شَهْرٌ:) or, accord. to Fr and El-Mufaddal, the Arabs used to call this month ↓ حُنَيْنٌ : (T, TA:) pl. [of pauc.] أَحِنَّةٌ and [of mult.] حُنُونٌ and حَنَائِنُ. (K.)

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