فنخ
1 فَنَخَ,
aor. ـَ (
L,)
inf. n. فَنْخٌ, (
L,
K,) He bruised a bone without splitting, or cleaving, it, and without causing to bleed: (
K:) or فَنَخَ رَأْسَهُ بِشَىْءٍ he bruised the bone of his head with a thing without making an apparent cleft or causing blood to flow: or he struck his head with a thing, meaning a staff, or stick, cleaving it or not cleaving it. (
L.) And فَنَخَ رَأْسَهُ, and ↓ فنّخهُ, He broke his head, and rendered him submissive, or abased him. (
L.) And فَنَخَهُ,
aor. ـَ
inf. n. فَنْخٌ and فُنُوخٌ, He weakened him, rendered him languid, or enervated him. (
L.) And فَنَخَهُ, (
S,
L,)
aor. ـَ (
L,)
inf. n. فَنْخٌ; (
L,
K;) and ↓ فنّخهُ,
inf. n. تَفْنِيخٌ; (
S,
L,
K;) and ↓ تفنّخهُ; (
L;) He, or it, (an affair, or event,
S,) overcame him, overpowered him, subdued him, and rendered him submissive, or abased him: (
S,
L,
K:) or did so in the worst, or most abominable, manner. (
L.) 2 فَنَّخَ see the preceding paragraph, in two places.
5 تَفَنَّخَ see 1, last sentence.
فَنِيخٌ A man overcome, overpowered, subdued, and rendered submissive, or abased: or overcome, &c., in the worst, or most abominable, manner. (
L.) And An old man: (
L:) [a man] flaccid, or flabby, and weak. (
L,
K.) مِفْنَخٌ A man who abases his enemies, and breaks their heads, much, or often. (
S,
K.) In explaining this word,
J uses رَأْسَهُمْ for زُؤُوسَهُمْ; and the author of the
K does the same, though in art. سلع he charges
J with error for using a similar expression. (
MF.) [Or, perhaps, the meaning here intended may be, and defeats their head, or chief.]
غَيْرُ مَفْنُوخٍ, occurring in a
trad., applied to a [garment of the kind called] بُرْد, means Not old and worn out, nor weak. (
TA.)
