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جَحْشٌ ذ A young ass; (S, Msb, K;) domestic and wild: or before it becomes big: (TA:) or from the time when it is brought forth until it becomes big from sucking: when it has completed the year, it is called تَوْلَبٌ: (As:) [or the latter is applied to a wild ass of that age:] pl. [of pauc.] أَجْحَاشٌ (so in a copy of the S) and [of mult.] جِحَاشٌ and جِحْشَانٌ (S, Msb, K) and جُحُوشٌ (Msb) and جِحَشَةٌ: (As, TA:) [dim. جُحَيْشٌ:] and fem. جَحْشَةٌ. (S, K.) It is said in a prov., الجَحْشَ لَمَّا بَذَّكَ الأَعْيَارُ, (A, TA,) i. e., Seek thou, or pursue thou, the young ass when the full-grown asses outstrip thee: applied to him who seeks much, and it escapes him; so one says to him, Seek thou less than that. (TA.) [Meyd gives فَاتَكَ in the place of بَذَّكَ.] ― -b2- Also (tropical:) A mare's colt; (A, K;) as being likened to a young ass. (TA.) ― -b3- And (tropical:) A gazelle; (Ibn- 'Abbád, K;) in the dial. of Hudheyl: (TA:) or a young gazelle; (A, TA;) in that dial.; occurring in a poem of Aboo-Dhu-eyb; but accord. to one relation, the word there is خشْف. (TA.)
An Arabic-English Lexicon. London. Williams and Norgate. 1863.
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