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جِرِّيَّةٌ جري جريه جرية , like قِرِّيَّةٌ, (S,) The stomach, or triple stomach, or the crop, or craw, of a bird; syn. حَوْصَلَةٌ: (S, K: mentioned also in art. جر, q. v.:) so called because the food at the last runs into it, or because it is the channel through which the food runs: (Er-Rághib, TA:) thus pronounced by Fr, and by Th on the authority of Ibn-Nejdeh, without ': by Ibn-Háni, [جِرِّيْئَةٌ,] with ', on the authority of AZ. (TA.)

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