conc▪ The D-stem (form II) vb. is probably denominative, applicative, from the obsol. n. †ḥināṭ or †ḥanūṭ, »a 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, consisting of ḏarīraẗ, or musk, or ambergris, or camphor, or other substance, namely, Indian cane, or sandal-wood, bruised« – Lane ii 1865.
▪ The latter is perhaps connected to another value of the root ḤNṬ, namely ‘to ripen, become mature, ready to get harvested’, after the sweet odour that the leaves of a certain tree, or shrub, emit when they have reach a stage of maturity.