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خِتَانٌ ختان Circumcision, of a boy, (S, * Mgh, * Msb, * K, TA,) and of a girl; (TA;) a subst. from 1 in the first of the senses explained above; (S, Mgh, Msb, K;) as also ↓ خِتَانَةٌ . (S, Msb, K.) You say, ↓ أُطْحِرَتْ خِتَانَتُهُ His circumcision was made to be extirpative. (S, TA.) ― -b2- And A feast, or banquet, to which people are invited on account of a circumcision. (JK, S, TA.) You say, كُنْتُ فِى خِتَانِ فُلَانٍ I was at the feast, or banquet, &c., of such a one. (TA.) ― -b3- See also 1, third sentence. ― -b4- Also The part, of the male, which is the place of circumcision; (T, S, Mgh, K;) and of the female likewise; (T, Mgh, TA;) the part, of the فَرْج, which is the place of circumcision. (Msb.) Hence, in a trad., إِِذَا ا@لْتَقَى الخِتَانَانِ [When the two places of circumcision meet together]: (S, * Msb, * TA:) اِلْتِقَآءُ الخِتَانَيْنِ is a euphemism, metonymically denoting the disappearing, or causing to disappear, of the part of the penis that is above, or beyond, the place of circumcision (Mgh, * Msb, TA) in the vulva of the woman. (Mgh, * TA.)
An Arabic-English Lexicon. London. Williams and Norgate. 1863.
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