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خَنِثٌ خنث One in whom is an affectation of a bending, or of an inclining of the body, from side to side, and of languor, or languidness; or in whom is a bending and languidness; expl. by مَنْ فِيهِ تَثَنٍّ وَتَكَسُّرٌ: (A, L, K:) or flaccid, or flabby, and affecting a bending, or an inclining of the body, from side to side: (S:) [or effeminate; like مُخَنَّثٌ]: or one in whom is softness, delicacy, tenderness, flabbiness, laxness, or limberness, and an affectation of languor, or languidness: (Msb:) fem. with ة. (TA.) And ↓ خُنُثٌ (TA) and ↓ مِخْنَاثٌ , (K,) applied to a woman, (K, TA,) Soft, delicate, tender, flabby, lax, or limber, (TA,) and affecting languor, or languid- ness: (K, TA:) pl. of the latter مَخَانِيثُ. (TA.) One says to such a woman, ↓ يَاخَنَاثِ , (K,) [indecl.,] like قَطَامِ; (TA;) and to a man [of the same description], ↓ يَا خُنَثُ . (K.)
An Arabic-English Lexicon. London. Williams and Norgate. 1863.
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