جَرُورٌ

Root: جر

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جَرُورٌ A female that exceeds the [usual] time of pregnancy. A she-camel that withholds her fœtus in her womb, after the completion of the year, a month, or two months, or forty days only; or, three months after the year: they are the most generous of camels that do so: none do so but those that usually bring forth in the season called الرَّبِيع (المَرَابِيع); not those that usually bring forth in the season called الصَّيْف (المَصَايِيف): and only those do so that are red [or brown], and such as are of a white hue intermixed with red (الصُّهْب), and such as are ash-coloured: never, or scarcely ever, such as are of a dark gray colour without any admixture of white, because of the thickness of their skins, and the narrowness of their insides, and the hardness of their flesh. (IAar, TA. [See also 1: and see خَصُوفٌ.])
2 Also A she-camel that is made to incline to, and to suckle, a young one not her own; her own being about to die, they bound its fore legs to its neck, and put upon it a piece of rag, in order that she might know this piece of rag, which they then put upon another young one; after which they stopped up her nostrils, and did not unclose them until the latter young one had sucked her, and she perceived from it the odour of her milk.
3 Also, applied to a horse, and a camel, That refuses to be led; refractory: of the measure فَعُولٌ in the sense of the measure مَفْعُولٌ; or it may be in the sense of the measure فَاعِلٌ: or a slow horse, either from fatigue or from shortness of step: pl. جُرُرٌ.
4 And A woman crippled; or affected by a disease that deprives her of the power of walking: because she is dragged upon the ground.
5 بِئْرٌ جَرُورٌ A deep well; from which the water is drawn by means of the سَانِيَة [q. v.], and by means of the pulley and the hands; like مَتُوحٌ and نَزُوعٌ: or a well from which the water is drawn [by a man] upon a camel [to the saddle of which one end of the wellrope is attached]; so called because its bucket is drawn upon the edge of the mouth thereof, by reason of its depth.

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