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خَنِينٌ خنة خني خنين The issuing of a sound from the nose, like حَنِينٌ from the mouth: [see حَنِينٌ, in two places:] this is the primary signification: (TA:) and it is [the making a sound] like weeping, and (so in the S, but in the K “ or ”) like laughing, in the nose: (S, K:) IB says that there is a kind of خنين like weeping in the nose: (TA:) or a weeping of women, (JK,) or a kind of weeping, (IAth, TA,) less than what is termed اِنْتِحَابٌ: (JK, IAth, TA:) and a faint laughing. (JK.) [See also 1.] ― -b2- And Stoppages in the خَيَاشِيم [or air-passages of the nose]. (TA.)
An Arabic-English Lexicon. London. Williams and Norgate. 1863.
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