جَاثِمٌ

A bird, (Msb, K,) and a hare, and sometimes a gazelle, (Msb,) or a [young gazelle such as is termed] خِشْف, (K,) and a camel, (Msb, K,) and a jerboa, and a man, (K,) cleaving to the ground: or keeping to his place, not quitting it: (K:) or falling upon his breast: (Msb,* K:) as alsoجَثُومٌ↓: (K:) [or the latter] andجَثَّامٌ↓ doing so much, or often: andجَثَّامَةٌ↓ doing so very much, or very often: (Msb:) and the first, also, sitting upon his legs like a bird: plural جُثُومٌ (TA) [and جُثَّمٌ, according to Freytag]. فَأَصْبَحُوا فِى دَارِهِمْ جَاثِمِينَ, in the Qur'an, 7:76, &c.], means [And they became, in their abode,] bodies cast upon the ground: (TA:) or extinct, or motionless; and dead. (Bd.) الجُثثومُ ‡ The stars composing the constellation of the Scorpion; also called البُرُكُ: see بَرْكٌ. (L and TA in article برك.)