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جَنِينٌ

Root: جن

Full Definition

جَنِينٌ Anything veiled, concealed, hidden, or covered: applied as an epithet even to rancour, or malice.
2 Buried; deposited in a grave.
3 An embryo; a fœtus; the child, or young, in the belly; [i. e.,] in the womb: pl. أَجِنَّةٌ and أَجْنُنٌ.
4 And the former of these pls., Waters choked up with earth.

def.2 See also جَنَنٌ.
2 Also The vulva.
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