حين1 حَانَ, (Msb, K,) or حان حِينُهُ, (S,) aor. ـِ (S, Msb,) [inf. n. as in the exs. following,] It, (Msb, K,) or its time, or season, (S,) was, or became, or drew, near; or was at hand: (S, Msb, K:) and its time came. (Msb, K. *) Yousay, حَانَ لَهُ أَنْ يَفْعَلَ كَذَا, aor.  as above, inf. n. حِينٌ [and as in the next ex.], The time came, or drew near, for him to do, or that he should do, such a thing; syn. آنَ. (S.) And حَانَتِ الصَّلَاةُ, (Msb, TA,) inf. n. حَيْنٌ and حِينٌ and حَيْنُونَةٌ, The time of prayer came: (Msb:) or the prayer was, or became, or drew, near. (TA.) b2:  حان السُّنْبُلُ The ears of corn became dry, (K, TA,) so that the time of the reaping thereof came, or drew near. (TA.) b3:  حان حَيْنُ النَّفْسِ The soul died, or perished. (TA.) b4:  And حان, inf. n. حَيْنٌ, He (a man) died, or perished. (S.) b5:  He experienced a trial, or trying affliction. (K: a meaning indicated therein, but not expressed.) b6:  Also, (Az, K,) aor.  as above, inf. n. حَيْنٌ, (Az, TA,) It (anything) was not accomodated, adapted, or disposed, to the right way or course or direction; (Az, K, TA;) as also ↓ تحيّن. (K.) b7:  And i. q. اِتَّفَقَ [It happened, &c.]. (Har p. 382.) 2 حيّنهُ, [inf. n. تَحْيِينٌ,] He assigned, or appointed, for him, or it, a time. (K.) حَيَّنُوا ضُيُوفَهُمْ and ↓ أَحَانُوهُمْ have the same meaning [app. They assigned, or appointed, a time for their guests]. (TA.) b2:  حيّن النَّاقَةَ He appointed for the she-camel a time in every day and night in which he should milk her; (S, K;) as also ↓ تَحَيَّنَهَا; (K;) said when one milks her in the day and night once: As says that تَحْيِينٌ is like تَوْجِيبٌ [the milking a camel but once in the course of each day and night]; but is only after she has shown herself to be pregnant, and her milk has become little in quantity. (TA.) A2: He (God) made him, or it, to be not accommodated, adapted, or disposed, to the right way or course or direction. (K) b2:  See also 4.3 مُحَايَنَةٌ and حِيَانٌ [are the inf. ns. of حَايَنَ]. You say, عَامَلَهُ مُحَايَنَةً (S, K) and حِيَانًا (Lh, TA) [He bargained or contracted with him for work for a certain time]; like مُسَاوَعَةً; (S, K;) from  الحِينُ meaning الوَقْتُ. (Lh, TA.) And in like manner, اِسْتَأْجَرَهُ مُحَايَنَةً (TA) and حِيَانًا (Lh, TA) [He hired him, or took him as a hired man or a hireling, for a certain time].4 احان i. q. أَزْمَنَ [i. e. Time, or a long time, passed over him, or it; he, or it, endured, or continued, for a time, or for a long time]. (TA.) b2:  أَحْيَنَ He remained, stayed, abode, or dwelt, (S, K,) for a time in a place. (S.) b3:  أَحْيَنَتِ الإِبِلُ The time came, or drew near, for the camels to be milked: or for the camels to have their loads bound upon them. (AA, K. [In the CK, يُعْلَمَ is erroneously put for يُعْكَمَ.]) b4:  أَحْيَنَ القَوْمُ The time of what they desired, or sought, came, or drew near, to the company of men: (K:) the time of their attainment of what they hoped for came, or drew near, to them. (IAar, TA.) A2: As a trans. verb: see 2. b2:  احانهُ اللّٰهُ God caused him to die, or destroyed him; (S;) as also ↓ حيّنهُ, inf. n. تَحْيِينٌ. (KL: but only the inf. n. is there given.) b3:  God tried him, or afflicted him with a trial. (K: a meaning indicated therein, but not expressed.) 5 تحيّن, said of spunger (وَارِش), He watched for the time of eating, in order that he might enter. (S.) And تحيّن الطَّعَامَ [He watched for the time of the food]. (K voce حَضِرٌ.) and تَحَيَّنْتُ رُؤْيَةَ فُلَانٍ I watched for the time of seeing such a one. (TA.) And تحيّن وَقْتَ الصَّلَاةِ He sought [to know] the time of prayer. (TA.) [And accord. to Freytag's Lex., ↓ استحان has a similar meaning; i. e. He waited for the just time of a thing; delayed a thing till the fit time.]b2:  تحيّن النَّاقَةَ: see 2.A2:  See also 1.A3: As meaning اِسْتَغْنَى, it is a vulgar word. (TA.) 10 إِسْتَحْيَنَ see 5.حَيْنٌ Death; a state of destruction or perdition: (S, K, TA:) or the time of the appointed term [of life]; or time of death. (Har p. 322.) b2:  A trial, or trying affliction. (K.) حِينٌ i. q. دَهْرٌ [Time; or a time; or a space, or period, of time; &c.]: (K:) or, accord. to EshSháfi'ee, time, from the beginning of the world to its end; as also دَهْرٌ: (Az voce دَهْرٌ:) or a time, (Az, S, Mgh, Msb, K,) in a vague sense, (Mgh, K,) applicable to any time, (Az, K,) little or much, (Mgh, Msb,) long or short, that may be a year and more: or [in some cases] particularly meaning forty years: or seven years: or two years: or six months: or two months: or any morning and evening: (K:) also a space of time; (S, K;) as in the Kur lxxvi. I, (S,) and in the Kur xxxvii. 178: (K:) and a continuous time: (Ham p. 381:) and the day of resurrection; (K;) or the coming to pass of the resurrection; as in the Kur xxxviii. last verse: (Mgh, TA:) or it has two meanings; namely, a time of unknown limit, and also, as in the Kur xiv. 30, six months: (Fr, Msb:) accord. to Er-Rághib, the time of a thing's arriving, or coming, and happening; having a vague meaning, and rendered particular, or special, by that to which it is prefixed: some say that it occurs applied in different ways: to an appointed term; as that to which God makes one to live: and a year; as in the Kur xiv. 30: and to the time when an event takes place; as in the Kur xxx. 16: and to time absolutely: accord. to El-Munáwee, in the [genuine] language of the Arabs, it is applied to [the time of] a glance of the eye, and more than that, to time without end: (TA:) the pl. is أَحْيَانٌ, (S, Msb, K,) and pl. pl. أَحَايِينُ; (S, * K;) as in the saying, فُلَانٌ يَفْعَلُ كَذَا أَحْيَانًا and فِى الأَحَايِينِ [Such a one does so at times, or sometimes]. (S.) In the Kur [xiv. 30], تُؤْتِى, أُكُلَهَا كُلَّ حِينٍ means [Which yieldeth its fruit] every six months: (Fr, Msb, TA:) or every year: or every morning and evening: or, accord. to Az, in every season, uninterruptedly. (TA.) شَىْءٍ ↓ مِحْيَانُ, also, means حِينُهُ [The time, or season, of a thing]. (K.) [You say, إِلَى حِينٍ For a time, or season.] And حِينًا At  one time; sometime; at some time; awhile. (Mgh.) حِينَ in the phrase قُمْتُ حِينَ قُمْتَ [I stood in the time when thou stoodest, or I stood when thou stoodest,] is an adv. n. of time; (Msb;) [see also an ex. in a verse cited voce خَشَفَ, and the remarks there subjoined:] and one may well employ in its place لَمَّا and إِذَا (Msb, TA) and إِذْ and مَتَى and سَاعَةَ (TA) and وَقْتَ (Msb, TA) and the like; but not, as many have said, حَيْثُ; for this is an adv. n. of place. (Msb.) b2: When they make the two times to be distant, the one from the other, [i. e. the time of speaking and the time spoken of,] they do so by means of إذ, and thus, (K,) they say حِينَئِذٍ[meaning At that time; then]: (S, K:) and sometimes they suppress the ء, substituting for it ى. (TA.) b3:  Sometimes, also, they prefix تَ to حِينَ; (S, TA;) and say لَا تَحِينَ, meaning It is not, or was not, a time [of such a thing; but this is generally written لَاتَ حِينَ]; as in the Kur xxxviii. 2 [respecting which see art. ليت]. (TA.) Aboo-Wejzeh Es-Saadee says, اَلْعَاطِفُونَ تَحِينَ مَا مِنْ عَاطِفٍوَالمُطْعِمُونَ زَمَانَ أَيْنَ المُطْعِوُ [The persons who return to the attack when there is none other that returns to the attack, (as is said in the S and L in art. عطف,) or it may mean who act affectionately in the time when there is none other that acts affectionately; as is said in the L in that art.;) and the feeders in the time when it is said, Where is the feeder?]: (S:) ISd  says that ت is thus prefixed to حين like as it is in تَلَانَ meaning الآنَ: but IB says that Ibn-Es-Seeráfee cites the former hemistich thus: اَلْعَاطِفُونَهْ حِينَ مَامِنْ عَاطِفٍ[with the ه of pausation]: and some say that the ه of pausation is likened to the fem. ة, and is then made movent with fet-h. (TA. [See more in art. ليت.]) b4:  See also حِينَةٌ, in two places.حَانَةٌ: see art. حون.حَيْنَةٌ: see what next follows.حِينَةٌ [The time appointed for a she-camel to be milked in every day and night;] a subst. from حَيَّنَ النَّاقَةَ; as also ↓ حِينٌ: you say, مَتَىحِينَةُ نَاقَتِكَ, meaning When is the time of the milking of thy she-camel? and كَمْ حِينَتُهَا, meaning How many times is she milked? (K.) One  says also, of a man, (S,) يَأْكُلُ الحِينَةَ and ↓ الحَيْنَةَ, meaning He eats once in the day and the night: (S, K:) or, accord. to Aboo-'Amr Ez-Záhid, الوَجْبَة is used as meaning a man's eating once in the day, and الحينة as meaning a she-camel's  being milked once in the day. (IB, TA.) and one says, مَا أَلْقَاهُ إِلَّا الحِينَةَ بَعْدَ الحِينَةَ, i. e. الحِينَ↓ بَعْدَ الحِينِ [I do not meet him save time after time; meaning, occasionally]. (K.) حَانَاةٌ: see art. حنو.حَانُوتٌ: see arts. حون and حنو.حَانِيَةٌ: see art. حنو.حَانِىٌّ: see art. حنو.حَانِيَّةٌ: see arts. حون and حنو.حَائِنٌ Stupid; foolish; or having little, or no, intellect, or understanding. (K.) حَائِنَةٌ A deadly, or destructive, calamity that befalls one: (K, TA:) a calamity in which is الحَيْن: (TA:) pl. حَوَائِنُ. (K.) [In the CK it is, in one place, erroneously substituted for حَانِيَّةٌ, as meaning “ wine. ”]مَحُونَةٌ [mentioned in the K in art. محن] is from الحَيْنُ or المِحْنَةُ. (TA.) مِحْيَانٌ: see its syn. حينٌ.