جحر1 جَحَرَ, (A, K,) aor. ـَ (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 4.4 اجِحرهُ 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.) 5 تَجَحَّرَ see 1; each in two places.7 إِنْجَحَرَ see 1; each in two places.8 اجتحر لِنَفْسِهِ جُحْرًا It [a ضَبّ &c.] made for itself a burrow, or hole. (S, K.) 10 إِسْتَجْحَرَ see 1.جَحْرٌ A deep-bottomed cavern. (K.) جُحْرٌ (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:  Yousay, 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.) جَحْرَةٌ (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.) عَيْنٌ جَحْرَآءُ 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.) جُحْرَانٌ: see جُحْرٌ, in three places.جَاحِرٌ [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.) جَوَاحِرُ [is its pl., signifying] Entering  into burrows, or holes, (S, K,) and hiding-places: (S:) entering secretly into [their] habitations: (KL:) and also (assumed tropical:)  remaining behind; applied to wild animals &c. (TA.) مَجْحَرٌ, (K,) pl. مَجَاحِرُ, (S, A,) (tropical:)  A hidingplace; (S, A, K;) a place of refuge. (K.) عَيْنٌ مُتَجَحِّرَةٌ or مُنْجَحِرَةٌ: see جَحْرَآءُ.