حِنْثٌ

The violation, or failure of performance, of an oath: (S, A, K, TA:) [a verbal noun used as a simple subst.:] plural أَحْنَاثٌ; as in the saying, عَلَيْهِ أَحْنَاثٌ كَثِيرَةٌ [He is accountable for, or chargeable with, many violations, or failures of performance, of oaths]. (TA.)

(tropical:) A sin, a crime, an offence, or an act of disobedience. (S, A, Msb, K.) So in the saying [in the Qur'an, 56:45, وَكَانُوا يُصِرُّونَ عَلَى الحِنْثِ العَظِيمِ (tropical:) [And they persisted in great sin]; (A;) meaning belief in a plurality of gods. (Bd, Jel.) And hence, (Bd in lvi. 45,) بَلَغَ الحِنْثَ (tropical:) He (a boy) attained to the age when he was punishable for sin: (A, * Bd:) or attained to [the age when he became punishable for] disobedience and [rewardable for] obedience: (S:) or attained to the age when the pen [of the recording angels] began to register his acts of obedience and of disobedience: attained to the age of puberty: attained to manhood. (TA.) [Hence also,] أَوْلَادُ الحِنْثِ (assumed tropical:) The children of adultery or fornication: occurring in a tradition, according to one reading: according to another reading, اولاد الخُبْثِ. (L.)