سِكِّينٌ

a word of well-known meaning; (S, Msb, K;) i. e. A knife; (MA, PS;) i. q. مُدْيَةٌ; (L;) as also ↓ سِكِّينَةٌ, (ISd, L, K,) a dialect var., (ISd, L,) occurring in a tradition, but the former is that which is commonly known: (L:) so called because it stills the animals slaughtered with it: (Az, L, Msb:) of the measure فِعِّيلٌ: (IDrd, L, Msb:) or, according to some, its ن is augmentative, so that it is of the measure فِعْلِينٌ: (Msb:) it is masculine, and sometimes feminine: (Zj, IAmb, * L, Msb, K: *) not heard as feminine by IAar: (L:) held to be only masculine by AZ and As and some others: (Msb:) but sometimes it occurs in poetry as feminine on the ground of meaning [as being synonym with مُدْيَةٌ or شَفْرَهٌ], (Msb,) and as such it occurs in a tradition: (L:) the plural is سَكَاكِينُ. (ISd, MA, L.) [See an example in a prov. cited voce سَلًى.]