خَتَنٌ

i. q. صِهْرٌ, (Lth, Mgh, K, &c.,) as meaning A man married among a people: (Lth, Mgh:) [such a man is said to be that people's خَتَن:] or any relation on the side of the wife; (S, IAar, Mgh, Msb, K;) such as a man's wife's father, (Lth, IAar, S, Mgh, Msb, K,) and wife's mother, (Lth, Mgh,) and wife's brother, (IAar, S, Mgh, Msb, K,) and the like; (K;) so it signifies with the Arabs: (S, Mgh, Msb:) thus Aboo-Bekr was the Prophet's ختن, and so was 'Omar: (Mgh, TA:) and [it is said that] with the vulgar it signifies a man's daughter's husband: (S, Mgh, Msb:) but it is used in this sense by a rájiz; and, in a tradition, 'Alee is called the Prophet's ختن: (TA:) according to Az, it signifies a man's wife's father: (Msb:) and خَتَنَةٌ is applied to the female; and means a man's wife's mother: (Az, Mgh, Msb, K, TA:) the plural is أَخْتَانٌ: (Az, S, Mgh, Msb, K:) according to As, (Mgh,) the أَخْتَان are [the relations] on the side of the wife; and the أَحْمَاء, on the side of the husband; and the أَصْهَار, on either side: (Mgh, Msb:) or a man's اختان are his wife's relations; and a woman's اختان are her husband's relations: and a man's اختان are also said to be his daughters' husbands and sisters' husbands and paternal aunts' husbands and maternal aunts' husbands, and the husbands of any women whom, by reason of relationship, it is unlawful for him to marry, and any relations on the side of these husbands to whom marriage is unlawful, of men and of women. (Mgh.)