Appendix:Arabic roots/خ ن س

خ ن س • (ḵ n s)

1. related to recession

• Form I: خَنَسَ (ḵanasa, “to remain behind, to retreat, to recede”)
  • Verbal noun: خُنُوس (ḵunūs)
  • Active participle: خَانِس (ḵānis)
• Form IV: أَخْنَسَ (ʔaḵnasa, “to make go backwards, to make recede, to leave stay behind”)
  • Verbal noun: إِخْنَاس (ʔiḵnās)
  • Active participle: مُخْنِس (muḵnis)
  • Passive participle: مُخْنَس (muḵnas)
• Form V: تَخَنَّسَ (taḵannasa, “to hide, to abscond”)
  • Verbal noun: تَخَنُّس (taḵannus)
  • Active participle: مُتَخَنِّس (mutaḵannis)
  • Passive participle: مُتَخَنَّس (mutaḵannas)
• Form VII: اِنْخَنَسَ (inḵanasa, “to remain behind, to retreat, to recede”)
  • Verbal noun: اِنْخِنَاس (inḵinās)
  • Active participle: مُنْخَنِس (munḵanis)

• أَخْنَس (ʔaḵnas, “of a camoys nose, pug-nosed”)
• خَنَّاس (ḵannās, “who retires or hides much”)

• Freytag, Georg (1837) “خ ن س”, in Lexicon arabico-latinum praesertim ex Djeuharii Firuzabadiique et aliorum Arabum operibus adhibitis Golii quoque et aliorum libris confectum‎ (in Latin), volume 4, Halle: C. A. Schwetschke, page 531
• Lane, Edward William (1863) “خ ن س”, in Arabic-English Lexicon‎, London: Williams & Norgate, page 816