ز • ح • ر

, aor. زَحَرَ , and زَحِرَ , (K,) inf. n. زَحِيرٌ (A, K) and زُحَارٌ and زُحَارَةٌ, (K,) He emitted the voice, (K, * TA,) or (K, TA, in the CK “ and, ”) the breath, with a moaning; (A, K;) [or he breathed hard; as appears from what follows;] in work, or labour, or in difficulty. (TA.) You say, سَمِعْتُ لَهُ زَحِيرًا [I heard him breathe hard; or emit the voice, or the breath, with a moaning]. (A.) And of a woman bringing forth, you say, زَحَرَتْ, aor. زَحَرَ and زَحِرَ , inf. n. زَحِيرٌ, She breathed hard. (S.) [Hence,] زَحَرَ said of a niggardly man, (assumed tropical:) He, being begged of, deemed the begging grievous, or troublesome, (K, TA,) and moaned thereat. (TA.) زَحَرَ, (A, K,) aor. زَحَرَ and زَحِرَ , (K,) inf. n. زَحِيرٌ (S, A, K) and زُحَارٌ (S, K) and زُحَارَةٌ; (K;) [and app. زُحِرَ also; (see مَزْحُورٌ;)] and ↓ تزحّر; (A, K;) and ↓ زحّر, inf. n. تَزْحِيرٌ; (K;) [all signify] He was, or became, affected with a looseness of the bowels: (S, A:) or with a violent looseness of the bowels, and with a griping pain in the belly, and a discharge of blood. (K.) And زَحَرَتْ بِهِ أُمُّهُ, and عَنْهُ ↓ تزحّزت, (tropical:) His mother brought him forth. (A, K.) -A2- زَحَرَهُ بِالرُّمْحِ, accord. to the K, signifies He broke, or clave, his head with the spear: but IDrd says that this is not of established authority. (TA.) -A3- زُحِرَ, like عُنِىَ, He was, or became, niggardly, or tenacious. (K.)

(tropical:) He treated him, or regarded him, with enmity, or hostility, (A, K, TA,) and behaved angrily (اِنْتَفَخَ) to him. (TA.)

A man affected with a looseness, or with a violent looseness, of the bowels, and with a griping pain in the belly, and a discharge of blood. (A, * TA.) See also the next preceding paragraph.

[inf. n. of un. of زَحَرَ; An emission [of the voice or] of the breath with a moaning: (A:) [or a hard breathing: (see 1:) it is said to be] like زَفْرَةٌ [q. v.]. (TA.)

[One who breathes hard; (this meaning being indicated, though not expressed, in the S;) or who emits the voice, or the breath, with a moaning: see 1, first sentence. And hence,] (assumed tropical:) Niggardly; tenacious; who moans on being begged of; (TA; [in which it is said to be with damm; but this is a mistake, occasioned by an incorrect point in the L;]) as also ↓ زُحَرٌ and ↓ زَحْرَانُ and ↓ مَزْحُورٌ. (K, * TA.) A poet says,

وَعِنْدَ الفَقْرِ زَحَّارًا أُنَانَا

أَرَاكَ جَمَعْتَ مَسْأَلَةً وَحِرْصًا

[I see thee to have combined begging and covetousness, and in poverty to be niggardly, with moaning]: (S, TA: in the former thus, in two copies, in the present art. and in art. ان: in the TA زُحَّارًا:) أُنَانًا is said by IB to be [here] an inf. n. of أَنَّ, like أَنِينًا. (TA.)

[an inf. n. of 1, q. v. Also] A certain disease that affects the camel, (K, TA,) in consequence of which he suffers from a violent looseness of the bowels, until, or so that, the extremity of his rectum turns inside-out, and nothing comes forth from it. (TA.)