خَنًا
1.
[more properly written خَنًى, originally a verbal noun,] Foul, abominable, unseemly, or obscene, speech: (S, TA, and Ham p. 489:) or the most foul, abominable, unseemly, or obscene, of speech. (JK, T, TA.) And
خناية [written without any syll. signs, apparently خَنَايَةٌ, like فَحَاشَةٌ,] is of the measure فعالة from خَنًا [and seems to be synonym therewith as a verbal noun or as a subst.]: it occurs in the saying of El-Katámee,
[Leave ye dates: speak not of them in a foul manner, or speak not of them foul speech; for dates have benefited in most of what has occurred between us, or among us]. (TA.)دَعُوا التَّمْرَ لَا تُثْنُوا عَلَيْهَا خنايةًفَقَدْ أَحْسَنْتَ فِى جُلِّ مَا بَيْنَنَا التَّمْرُ