Khunays
خنيس
Say it khu-NAYS
Slipping out of sight
At a glance
- Gender
- Boy
- Arabic root
- kh-n-s
- Origin
- Arabic
- Found in
- The Companions
- Also spelled
- Khunais, Khunays
Meaning & source
From kh-n-s, slipping away and hiding (Ibn Fāris); the khunnas are the stars that withdraw from sight.
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[خنس] الخاء والنون والسين أصلٌ واحد يدلُّ على استخفاء وتستُّر.
Who carried this name
- Khunays ibn Ḥudhāfah al-Sahmī Ibn Ḥajar al-ʿAsqalānī, al-Iṣābah fī Tamyīz al-Ṣaḥābah, no. 2299 (vol. 2, p. 290)