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جُحْرٌ جحر (S, A, Mgh, Msb, K) and ↓ جُحْرَانٌ (S, K) The burrow, or hole, (M, K,) of a [lizard of the kind called] ضَبّ, (A, Mgh, Msb, MF,) and (tropical:) of a jerboa, and (tropical:) of a serpent, (Mgh, Msb, MF, *) and (assumed tropical:) of any venomous reptile or the like, and wild beast, (M, K,) or of any creature that is not of a large size; (TA;) and [the den] of a hyena: (K in art. وجر:) pl. [of mult.] of the former, جِحَرَةٌ (S, Msb, K [in the CK جَحَرَةٌ]) and [of pauc.] أَجْحَارٌ. (S, K.) ― -b2- And [hence,] the former, (A,) or ↓ the latter, or both, (IAth, TA,) (tropical:) The vulva of a woman; the pudendum muliebre: and (tropical:) the anus. (IAth, TA.) ― -b3- You say, حَصِّنِى جُحْرَكِ (tropical:) [Protect thou (O woman) thy pudendum]. (A.) And it is said in a trad., (by 'Áïsheh, A,) ↓ إِِذَا حَاضَتِ المَرْأَةُ حَرُمَ الجُحْرَانُ (S, TA) (tropical:) When a woman has the menstrual discharge, the vulva is forbidden: (TA:) or, (accord. to one reading, TA,) حَرُمَ الجُحْرَان, i. e. both (A) the vulva and the anus (TA) are forbidden; (A, TA;) one having been forbidden before. (TA.) ― -b4- [Hence likewise,] the former signifies also (assumed tropical:) A hole, or aperture, (ثَعْلَبٌ,) whence rainwater flows. (K and TA in art. ثعلب.)
An Arabic-English Lexicon. London. Williams and Norgate. 1863.
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