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خَنًا خن خنا [more properly written خَنًى, originally an inf. n.,] Foul, abominable, unseemly, or obscene, speech: (S, TA, and Ham p. 489:) or the most foul, abominable, unseemly, or obscene, of speech. (JK, T, TA.) And ↓ خناية [written without any syll. signs, app. خَنَايَةٌ, like فَحَاشَةٌ,] is of the measure فعالة from خَنًا [and seems to be syn. therewith as an inf. n. or as a subst.]: it occurs in the saying of El-Katámee, “ دَعُوا التَّمْرَ لَا تُثْنُوا عَلَيْهَا خنايةً
فَقَدْ أَحْسَنْتَ فِى جُلِّ مَا بَيْنَنَا التَّمْرُ
” [Leave ye dates: speak not of them in a foul manner, or speak not of them foul speech; for dates have benefited in most of what has occurred between us, or among us]. (TA.) ― -b2- خَنَا الدَّهْرِ The calamities of time or fortune. (JK, K.)
An Arabic-English Lexicon. London. Williams and Norgate. 1863.
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