خَنْسَرٌ

and ↓ خَنْسَرِىٌّ A man in a place [or condition] of خُسْرَان [or loss, &c.]: (K in the present article and in article خنسر:) plural خَنَاسِرَةٌ. (K in article خنسر.)

And [the plural] الخَنَاسِرَةُ, in several copies of the K, in other copies of the K ↓ الخَاسِرَةُ, but correctly ↓ الخَنَاسِرُ, (TA,) The weak of mankind; (K, TA;) and the small, or little, of them; (TA;) as also ↓ الخَنَاسِيرُ, in the former sense, (K and TA in article خنسر,) and in the latter sense also: (TA in that article:) and أَهْلُ الخِيَانَةِ; (K and TA in this article; and K in article خنسر, according to several copies;) i. e. The people of perfidy, unfaithfulness, or treachery; and of baseness, ignobleness, ungenerousness, or meanness: (TA in the present article:) or اهل الجبانة; because of their weakness; (TA in article خنسر;) [as though meaning the people of cowardice (الجَبَانَة): or it may mean the people of the burial-ground (الجَبَّانَة); for, according to AHát, ↓ الخناسير signifies those who conduct [to the burial-ground] the corpse or the bier with the corpse; perhaps from خَنَاسِرُ meaning “ small, or little, and weak men. ” (TA.)