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جَنِينٌ جنى جنين Anything veiled, concealed, hidden, or covered: (K:) applied as an epithet even to rancour, or malice. (TA.) ― -b2- Buried; deposited in a grave. (IDrd, S.) ― -b3- An embryo; a fœtus; the child, or young, in the belly; (S Msb, K;) [i. e.,] in the womb: (Mgh:) pl. أَجِنَّةٌ (S, Msb, K) and أَجْنُنٌ. (ISd, K.) ― -b4- And the former of these pls., Waters choked up with earth. (TA.) -A2- See also جَنَنٌ. ― -b2- Also The vulva. (TA.)

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