خَشْخَشَةٌ

The [clashing, clattering, chinking, jingling, rattling, or rustling,] sound of arms, or weapons, (S, A, * K,) and the like; (S;) as also شَخْشَخَةٌ, but this latter is a dialect var. of weak authority: (TA:) and of any dry or hard thing rubbing against another such thing: (K:) according to IDrd, such [sound or thing (for his words are ambiguous)] is termed ↓ خَشْخَاشٌ: (TA:) and the [rustling] sound of a new garment or piece of cloth, when it is put in motion; as also نَشْنَشَةٌ: (IAar:) and [a confused sound] such as is heard to proceed from the inside of an animal on its being hit by an arrow: (JK in article خشف:) and a motion having a sound like the sound of arms, or weapons; (TA;) or an audible motion. (Mgh in article خشف.)