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خَوْرَانٌ خور خوران The مَبْعَرٌ [or rectum], which comprises the حِتَار [or anus, with the extremities of its skin,] of the صُلْب [or back], (K,) of a man &c.: (TA:) or the passage of the رَوْث [or dung, properly of a horse or the like, but here app. meaning of a man also]: (S:) or the head [or extremity] of the مَبْعَرَة [or rectum]: or the part in which is the دُبُر [or anus]: (K:) or the دُبُر [or anus] itself; (TA;) or it has this meaning also; (JK;) and so ↓ خَوَّارَةٌ , syn. اِسْتٌ; (K;) the دُبُر being so called because it is like a depressed place between two hills: (TA: [see خَوْرٌ:]) or the gap in which is the دُبُر [or anus] of a man; and that in which is the قُبُل [or anterior pudendum] of a woman: (TA:) or the gap in which is the دُبُر and the place of the ذَكَر and that of the قُبُل of the woman: (Zj in his “ Khalk el-Insán: ”) pl. خَوْرَانَاتٌ and خَوَارِين: (K:) the former pl. of a form which any sing. subst. not significant of a human being may receive. (TA.)

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