shann

waging, launching

شَنّ

Word

Noun

Root

ش ن ن

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مَاتَتْ لَنَا شَاةٌ فَدَبَغْنَا مَسْكَهَا ثُمَّ مَا زِلْنَا نَنْبِذُ فِيهِ حَتَّى صَارَ شَنًّا

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Arabic–English, 1863–93 · 12 entries
  • شَنَّ المَآءَ Form I He scattered the water
    , (S, Mgh, K,) aor. , inf. n. شَنٌّ, (Mgh, TA,) He scattered the water; (S, K;) or poured it scatteringly; (Mgh;) or poured it and scattered it; or, as some say, poured it in a manner like that which is termed نَضْحٌ [i. e. sprinkling]; (TA;) عَلَى الشَّرَابِ [upon the wine, or beverage]: (S, K:) سَنَّهُ signifies “ he poured it gently. ” (TA.) And شَنَّتِ العَيْنُ دَمْعَهَا The eye poured forth its tears; (TA;) or sent forth [or shed] its tears; like شَلَّت, (Lh, TA in art. شل,) which is asserted by Yaakoob to be formed by substitution [of ل for ن]. (TA in that art.) ― -b2- And, from the former, شَنَّ الغَارَةَ, (S, Mgh, Msb, K,) aor. and inf. n. as above, (Msb,) (tropical:) He scattered, (S, Mgh, Msb, TA,) or poured, (K, TA,) the horsemen making a raid, or sudden attack, and engaging in conflict, or the horsemen urging their horses, الغَارَةَ meaning الخَيْلَ المُغِيرَةَ, (Mgh, Msb,) from every direction, عَلَيْهِمْ [upon them]; (S, K;) as also ↓ اشنّها; (S, Msb, K;) the latter mentioned in the Mj, (Msb,) by IF, but disapproved by the people of chaste speech. (TA.) ― -b3- And شَنَّ بِسَلْحِهِ (AA, S, * TA) He cast forth his excrement, or dung, in a thin [and scattered] state: and one says of the حُبَارَى [or bustard] تَشُنُّ بِذَرْقِهَا [It casts forth its dung in a thin and scattered state]. (AA, TA.) ― -b4- And شَنَّ عَلَيِْهِ دِرْعَهُ He put (lit. poured) on him his coat of mail. (TA.) -A2- شَنَّ الجَمَلُ مِنَ العَطَشِ, [aor. accord. to general rule ,] The camel became dried up [like a شَنّ, q. v.,] from thirst. (TA.) And شَنَّتِ الخِرْقَةُ The rag became dried up. (TA.)
  • 2 Form II dripping, or dropping by degrees, of water from the شَنَّة
    [inf. ns. of شنّن] The dripping, or dropping by degrees, of water from the شَنَّة [or old and worn-out water-skin or the like]. (TA. [See also شَنِينٌ.])
  • أَشْنَ3َ Form IV Open entry
    see 1: ― -b2- and see also what next follows.
  • تَشَنَّنَتِ القِرْبَةُ Form V The water-skin became old, and worn out
    , and ↓ تشانّت, (S, K,) and ↓ اشنّت and ↓ استشنّت, (K,) The water-skin became old, and worn out: (S, K:) or ↓ تشانّ, said of skin, or a skin, does not signify thus, but signifies, (AA, S,) or signifies also, (K,) and so تشنّن, (S, K, TA,) said of the skin of a man, in extreme old age, (S,) it contracted, shrank, shrivelled, or wrinkled; or became contracted or shrunk &c.; (S, K, TA;) and dried up: (S, TA:) and ↓ استشنّ is likewise said of the skin of a man, meaning it became old, and worn out, like the old, and worn-out, شَنّ. (Har p. 675.) It is said in a trad., ↓ القُرْآنُ لَا يَتْفَهُ وَلَا يَتَشَانُّ [expl. in art. تفه]. (TA.) See also a tropical usage of ↓ استشنّ in a trad. cited in the first paragraph of art. بل. ― -b2- تشنّن is also said of the skin of a man as meaning It became altered [for the worse] in odour, in extreme old age. (TA.)
  • تَشَانَّ Form VI It was or became, mixed
    : see 5, in three places. ― -b2- Also It was or became, mixed. (K.)
  • إِنْشَنَ3َ Form VII It became poured out, or forth; it flowed
    [انشنّ It became poured out, or forth; it flowed. (Freytag, from the Deewán of the Hudhalees.) ― -b2- Hence,] انشنّ الذِّيأْبُ فِى الغَنَمِ (assumed tropical:) The wolf made an incursion among the sheep or goats; as also انشلّ: mentioned by Az in art. نشغ. (TA.)
  • استشنّ Form X He became lean, or emaciated
    : see 5, in three places. ― -b2- Also, (Kh, S, K,) said of a man, (Kh, S, TA,) and of a camel, (TA,) (tropical:) He became lean, or emaciated, (Kh, S, K, TA,) like the water-skin that has become old, and worn out: so says Aboo-Kheyreh: (TA:) or, said of an animal, he became dried up, and lean, or emaciated. (Har p. 530.) ― -b3- And استشنّ إِلَى اللَّبَنِ i. q. عَامَ, (K,) i. e. He betook himself to milk, or the milk, and desired it eagerly, or longed for it. (TA.)
  • شَنْشَنَةٌ motion
    [an inf. n., of which the verb, if it be used, is شَنْشَنَ,] The motion of paper, and of a new garment: [or rather the making a kind of crackling sound by the motion thereof:] mentioned by Az in art. فقع: (TA:) and نَشْنَشَةٌ signifies the same: both thus expl. by IAar. (TA in art. قع.)
  • شَنٌّ A skin
    A skin, (Msb,) or a water-skin, (S, Mgh,) or a small water skin, (K,) or, as some say, any vessel made of skin, (TA,) applied by a poet to a دَلْو [or leathern bucket], (Ham p. 602,) that is old, and worn out; (S, Mgh, Msb, K, TA;) and so ↓ شَنَّةٌ; (S, K;) but app. one that is small: (S: [in which this addition to the explanation seems to relate peculiarly to the latter word: see an ex. of this latter word in some verses cited in the first paragraph of art. سقى:]) or both signify an old water-skin; as also ↓ مِشَنٌّ: (MA:) and ↓ شَنَنٌ, also, signifies an old, worn-out, water-skin: (TA:) pl. (of the first, Mgh, Msb) شِنَانٌ: (S, Mgh, Msb, K:) and Lh mentions the phrase قِرْبَةٌ أَشْنَانٌ, as though they applied the term شَنٌّ to every portion of the قربة and then pluralized it thus; but he says that he had not heard أَشْنَانٌ as a pl. of شَنٌّ except in this case: (TA:) the water in a شَنّ is cooler [than that in a skin not so old]. (Mgh.) It is said in a prov., لَا يُقَعْقَعُ لِى بِالشِّنَانِ [A confused and clattering noise will not be made to me with the old and worn-out water-skins to frighten me]: (S in the present art.: [in the S and K in art. قع, with مَا in the place of لا; and in the K in that art., with لَهُ in the place of لى:]) مَا يُقَعْقَعُ لَهُ بِالشِّنَانِ is applied to him who will not be abased by misfortunes, nor frightened by that which has no reality: (Sgh and K in art. قع:) or it means, he will not be deceived nor frightened: شِنَان being pl. of شَنٌّ, a dried up skin, which is shaken to a camel to frighten him. (L and TA in art. قع.) An old man is likened to the skin thus termed. (Har p. 675.) And ↓ شَنَّةٌ signifies also (tropical:) A worn-out old woman; as being likened to the skin thus termed. (IAar, TA.) And one says, رَفَعَ فُلَانٌ الشَّنَّ, meaning (assumed tropical:) Such a man raised himself bearing upon the palm of his hand. (IKh, TA.) ― -b2- Also i. q. غرض [app. غَرَضٌ, i. e. A butt, at which one shoots or casts: probably because an old water-skin was sometimes used as a butt]: pl. as above. (Msb.) ― -b3- [And, as Freytag states, on the authority of Meyd, (assumed tropical:) Dry herbage.] -A2- Also Weakness. (TA.)
  • شَنَّةٌ Open entry
    : see شَنٌّ, in two places.
  • شَنَنٌ Open entry
    : see شَنٌّ, first sentence.
  • شَنَانٌ Hatred
    a dial. var. of شَنْآنٌ [inf. n. of شَنِيأَ], (S, K,) signifying Hatred; [or the hating of another;] (S;) mentioned by AO. (S in art. شنأ.)

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