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جِرِّيَّةٌ

Root: جرى

Full Definition

جِرِّيَّةٌ , like قِرِّيَّةٌ, 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: thus pronounced by Fr, and by Th on the authority of Ibn-Nejdeh, without ء: by Ibn-Háni, [جِرِّيْئَةٌ,] with ء, on the authority of AZ.
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