سخنة doesn't appear in Hans Wehr's Modern Standard Arabic dictionary, but Lane's Arabic-English Lexicon has 4 entries for it, distinguished by diacritics. Select one below for the full classical Arabic definition.

• سَخْنَةٌ

  سَخْنَةٌ ذ : see the next paragraph.…

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• سُخْنَةٌ

  سُخْنَةٌ ذ an inf. n. of 1 [q. v.]. (JK, S, * &c.) [Hence,] one says, إِنِّى لَأَجِدُ فِى نَفْسِى سُخْنَةً, (L, K, *) as also (S, L, K, the only form mentioned in the S in this case) and (L, K) and and , (K,) or , (JK,) …

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• سِخْنَةٌ

  سِخْنَةٌ ذ : see the next preceding paragraph. -b2- One says also, عَلَيْكَ بِالأَمْرِ عِنْدَ سِخْنَتِهِ, meaning (assumed tropical:) [Keep thou to the affair] while it is in its first state, before it become cold [i. e.…

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• سَخَنَةٌ

  سَخَنَةٌ ذ : see سُخْنَةٌ.…

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