خَنِثٌ

One in whom is an affectation of a bending, or of an inclining of the body, from side to side, and of languor, or languidness; or in whom is a bending and languidness; explained by مَنْ فِيهِ تَثَنٍّ وَتَكَسُّرٌ: (A, L, K:) or flaccid, or flabby, and affecting a bending, or an inclining of the body, from side to side: (S:) [or effeminate; like مُخَنَّثٌ]: or one in whom is softness, delicacy, tenderness, flabbiness, laxness, or limberness, and an affectation of languor, or languidness: (Msb:) feminine with ة. (TA.) And خُنُثٌ (TA) and مِخْنَاثٌ, (K,) applied to a woman, (K, TA,) Soft, delicate, tender, flabby, lax, or limber, (TA,) and affecting languor, or languid- ness: (K, TA:) plural of the latter مَخَانِيثُ. (TA.) One says to such a woman, يَاخَنَاثِ, (K,) [indecl.,] like قَطَامِ; (TA;) and to a man [of the same description], يَا خُنَثُ. (K.)

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