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, (A, K,) aor. ; (K;) and ↓ انجحر, (S, Msb, K,) and ↓ تجحّر, (K,) and ↓ استجحر, (A,) said of a [lizard of the kind called] ضَبّ, (A, Msb, K,) and of a jerboa, and of a serpent, (Msb,) [&c., (see جُحْرٌ,)] It entered its burrow, or hole; (S, A, K;) betook itself to it for refuge; or resorted to it. (Msb.) ― -b2- [Hence,] جَحَرَتْ عَيْنُهُ [and ↓ تجحّرت or ↓ انجحرت (see جَحْرَآءُ)] (tropical:) His eye sank, or became depressed, in his head. (S, A, K.) ― -b3- جَحَرَتِ الشَّمْسُ لِلْغُيُوبِ (assumed tropical:) [The sun set, or became near to setting]. (TA.) ― -b4- And جَحَرَتِ الشَّمْسُ (assumed tropical:) The sun rose high, (K,) so that the shade receded and contracted. (TA.) ― -b5- حَجَرَ said of a man, (assumed tropical:) He retreated, or retired; remained behind; or held back. (S, TA.) ― -b6- جَحَرَ الرَّبِيعُ (tropical:) The [rain called] ربيع withheld itself: (A:) [or] the [season called] ربيع did not give us rain. (K.) ― -b7- And جَحَرَ عَنَّا الخَيْرُ (assumed tropical:) Good, or prosperity, kept back from us, (K, * TA,) and did not betide us. (TA.) -A2- See also 4.

He made it (a [lizard of the kind called] ضَبّ [&c.]) to enter its burrow, or hole; (S, * K;) as also ↓ جَحَرَهُ: (K:) and it (rain) constrained it (a ضَبَ [&c.]) to enter its burrow, or hole. (A, * TA.) ― -b2- [Hence,] أَجْحَرَهُمُ الفَزَعُ (tropical:) [Fright drove them into their dwellings]. (A.) ― -b3- اجحرت السَّنَةُ (tropical:) Drought, or dearth, brought the people into strait, or narrow, circumstances. (A.) ― -b4- And اجحرهُ إِلَى كَذَا (assumed tropical:) He constrained him, or compelled him, to have recourse to, or to betake himself to, or to do, such a thing. (K, * TA.) -A2- اجحر القَوْمُ (tropical:) The people, or company of men, entered upon a time of drought, (K,) and difficulty. (TA.) ― -b2- اجحرت النُّجُومُ (tropical:) The stars (i. e. the stars of winter, TA) occasioned no rain. (K, TA.)

see 1; each in two places.

see 1; each in two places.

It [a ضَبّ &c.] made for itself a burrow, or hole. (S, K.)

see 1.

A deep-bottomed cavern. (K.)

(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,) ↓ إِذَا 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.)

(S, K) and جَحَرَةٌ (K) (assumed tropical:) A severe, hard, or distressful, year; (S, K;) one of drought, dearth, or unfruitfulness, (K,) and of little rain; because it drives the people into the tents, or houses. (TA.)

i. q. ↓ مُتَجَحِّرَةٌ or ↓ مُنْجَحِرَةٌ, (accord. to different copies of the K,) i. e. (tropical:) An eye deep, or depressed, in its socket. (TA.) It occurs in a trad., in a description of Ed-Dejjál; but Az says that [in this instance] it is correctly جَخْرَآء, with خ. (TA.)

: see جُحْرٌ, in three places.

[Entering a burrow, or hole: and also] (assumed tropical:) remaining behind, not having come up to others; (K, TA;) applied to a horse or the like, &c. (TA.)