conc▪ Prob. nsb-formation from ↗ḥānūt in the latter’s sense of ‘burial chamber, vault’ (cf. †ḥaniyyat, pl. ḥanāyā, ḥaniyy, ‘vault; bow’ – Hava1899), related to ↗ḥanā/ḥanà ‘to bend, bow, flex, curve, crook’.
▪ Meaning possibly influenced by the obsol. n. †ḥanūṭ, var. †ḥināṭ (emph. ‑ṭ!), ‘perfume or odoriferous substances of any kind that are mixed for a corpse, in particular, or for grave-clothes and for the bodies of the dead’ (Lane ii 1865) ↗ḥannaṭa ‘to embalm, mummify’.
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