قَارِحٌ

A solid-hoofed animal finishing teething, completing his fifth year: (S, Msb:) or in the state corresponding to that of the camel that is termed بَازِلٌ: (K:) [or shedding his corner-nipper: (see قَرَحَ:)] in the first year he is termed حَوْلِىٌّ; then, جَذَعٌ; then, ثَنِىٌّ; then, رَبَاعٍ; and then قَارِحٌ: (S:) or in the second year, فَلُوٌّ; and in the third, جَذَعٌ: (TA:) plural قَرَّحٌ (S, K) and قَوَارِحُ (K) and مَقَارِيحُ, (S, K,) the last (which occurs in a verse of Aboo-Dhu-eyb, S) anomalous, (K, TA,) as though plural of مِقْرَاحٌ: (TA:) feminine قَارِحٌ and قَارِحَةٌ, (K,) but the former is the more approved, and the latter is by Az disallowed; (TA;) plural قَوَارِحُ. (S.)

The tooth by [the growing, or shedding, of] which a horse, or other solid-hoofed animal becomes what is termed قَارِحٌ; (K;) the [permanent, or the deciduous, cornernipper, or] tooth next but one to the central pair of incisors: plural قَوَارِحُ: the teeth thus called are four. (S.) [See قَرَحَ.]

Also A she-camel becoming in a manifest state of pregnancy: (S, K:) or in the first stage of pregnancy: or showing a sign of pregnancy by raising her tail: (TA:) or not supposed to be pregnant, and not giving a sign of being so by raising her tail, until her pregnancy becomes evident in the appearance of her belly: (Lth:) or not known to have conceived until her pregnancy has become manifest: or whose pregnancy is complete: (TA:) or a she-camel is so termed in the days when she is covered by the stallion; after which, when her pregnancy has become manifest, she is termed خَلِفَةٌ, until she enters upon the term called التَّعْشِير: (IAar:) also a mare that has gone forty days from the commencement of her pregnancy, and more, until it has become known: plural قَوَارِحُ and قُرَّحٌ. (TA.)