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شِنْشِنَةٌ ذ A nature; or a natural, a native, or an innate, disposition or temper or the like; syn. طَبِيعَةٌ, (S, Mgh, K,) and خُلُقٌ, (S,) and سَجِيَّةٌ: (TA:) and a custom, habit, or wont: (Mgh, K:) [pl. شَنَاشِنُ.] One says فِيهِ مِنْ أَبِيهِ شَنَاشِنُ In him are habits [or natural dispositions inherited] from his father. (TA.) Hence, “ شِنْشِنَةٌ أَعْرِفُهَا مِنْ أَخْزَمْ
” [A natural disposition, or a habit, which I know, as inherited from Akhzam]: (S, Meyd, Mgh:) or, accord. to one relation, نِشْنِشَةٌ, which is app. formed by transposition from شِنْشِنَةٌ: (Meyd:) a prov.: (Meyd, Mgh:) [of its origin there are different explanations: see Freytag's Arab. Prov. i. 658, and Har pp. 591 and 596:] أَخْزَمُ is the proper name of a man: (Meyd, Mgh, &c.:) or accord. to Lth, it is an epithet applied to a penis; one says كَمَرَةٌ خَزْمَآءُ “ a glans of a penis having a short frænum, ” and ذَكَرٌ أَخْزَمُ; and شنشنة means the dropping of water [i. e., in this case, of the seminal fluid]: (Meyd:) the prov. is applied in relation to nearness of resemblance. (Meyd, Mgh.) -A2- Also A bit of flesh-meat, as much as is chewed at once; syn. مُضْغَةٌ: or a piece of flesh-meat; (K, TA;) and so نِشْنِشَةٌ: on the authority of AA. (TA.) ― -b2- And [the pl.] شَنَاشِنُ signifies Bones; like سَنَاسِنُ. (IAar, L in art. سن.)
An Arabic-English Lexicon. London. Williams and Norgate. 1863.
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