زحر

زَحَّارٌ ذ [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. ― -b2- 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.)