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,
دَعُوا التَّمْرَ لَا تُثْنُوا عَلَيْهَا خنايةً
فَقَدْ أَحْسَنْتَ فِى جُلِّ مَا بَيْنَنَا التَّمْرُ
[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.)
2.
خَنَا الدَّهْرِ The calamities of time or fortune. (JK, K.)

Perseus ID: n11656