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مُؤَنَّثٌ ذ [A feminine word; a word made feminine. ― -b2- Also,] (T, A, K,) and ↓ أَنِيثٌ , (AA, T,) and ↓ مِئْنَاثٌ , (K,) and ↓ مِئْنَاثَةٌ , (TA,) (tropical:) i. q. مُخَنَّثٌ, (AA, T, A, K,) i. e. An effeminate man; one who resembles a woman (AA, T, TA) in gentleness, and in softness of speech, and in an affectation of languor of the limbs: (TA:) or a man in the form, or make, of a female. (T.) ― -b3- سَيْفٌ مُؤَنَّثٌ: see أَنِيثٌ. ― -b4- طِيبٌ مُؤَنَّثٌ (tropical:) Perfume that is used by women; such as خَلُوق and زَعْفَران, (Sh, T, L,) and what colours the clothes: (L:) ذُكُورَةُ الطِّيبِ being such perfumes as have no colour; such as غَالِيَة and كَافُور and مِسْك and عُود and عَنْبَر and the like, which leave no mark. (T, L.)
An Arabic-English Lexicon. London. Williams and Norgate. 1863.
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