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2 خنّثهُ خنث خنثه خنثة , (S, K,) inf. n. تَخْنِيثٌ, (K,) He bent it; (S, K;) namely, a thing. (S.) Hence the epithet مُخَنَّثٌ. (S, K.) ― -b2- He made him to be, or become, such as is termed خَنِثٌ. (Msb.) ― -b3- خنّث كَلَامَهُ He made his speech like that of women, in softness and gentleness: so some say. (Msb.) -A2- تَخْنِيثٌ also signifies The doing what is excessively foul, or obscene; [i. e. the acting the part of a catamite;] but this meaning was unknown to the Arabs [of the classical ages]. (MF.)
An Arabic-English Lexicon. London. Williams and Norgate. 1863.
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