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حَنَّةٌ حان حنه حننه حنة : see حَنَانٌ. ― -b2- It is said in a prov., لَا تَعْدَمُ نَاقَةٌ مِنْ أُمِّهَا حَنَّةً, and ↓ حَنِينًا , meaning [The she-camel will not be without] likeness [to her mother]: and one says of a man who resembles another man, and of any one who resembles his father and his mother, لَا تَعْدَمُ أَدْمَآءُ مِنْ أُمِّهَا حَنَّةً [A female camel of the colour termed أُدْمَة (i. e. white, or very white, &c.,) will not be without likeness to her mother]. (TA. [See also Freytag's Arab. Prov. ii. 497.]) ― -b3- The [grumbling cry termed] رُغَآء of a camel. (S, K.) -A2- A man's wife. (S, K.) -A3- See also what next follows.
An Arabic-English Lexicon. London. Williams and Norgate. 1863.

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