Classical Arabic - English Dictionary

by Edward William Lane (1801-1876)

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1. ⇒ حذر

حَذِرَ, aor. ـَ {يَحْذَرُ}, inf. n. حَذَرٌ; andاحتذر↓; (Mṣb, Ḳ;) He was cautious, wary, or vigilant; was on his guard; took care; (Ḳ, TA;) was in a state of preparation; (Mṣb;) was in fear; feared. (TA.) [You say, حَذِرَ مِنْ أَمْرٍ andاحتذر↓ مِنْهُ He was cautious,, &c., of a thing, or an event. And حَذِرَ عَلَيْهِ مِنْ كَذَا andاحتذر↓ He was cautious,, &c., for him, of such a thing. And both verbs are also trans.: for you say,] حَذِرَهُ, (Ṣ, A, Mṣb,) aor. and inf. n. as above; (Ṣ;) andاحتذرهُ↓, (TA,) andحاذرهُ↓; (A;) He was cautious of it; guarded, or was on his guard, against it; (Ṣ, A;) prepared, prepared himself, or was in a state of preparation, against it; (TA;) feared it. (Mṣb, TA.) [And حَذِرَ أَنْ يَفْعَلَهُ andاحتذر↓ He was cautious of doing it; or he feared doing it.] And حُذِرَ الشَّىْءُ فَحَذِرَهُ The thing was an object of fear, and so he feared it. (Mṣb.) And حُذِرَ المَوْتِ [Death was an object of fear]: andحاذر↓ المَوْتَ [He feared death]. (A.)


2. ⇒ حذّر

تَحْذِيرٌ [The cautioning another; putting him on his guard; making him to be cautious or wary or vigilant, to be on his guard, to take care, or to be in a state of preparation;] the making to fear, or be in fear. (Ṣ, TA.) [You say, حذّرهُ مِنْ أَمْرٍ He cautioned him against a thing. And the verb is also doubly trans.: you say,] حذّرهُ الأَمْرَ [He cautioned him against, or made him to fear, the thing, or event]. (TA.) And أَحَذِّرُكَهُ [I caution thee against him, or it]. (Ḳ.) And it is said in the Ḳur [iii. 27 and 28], يُحَذِّرُكُمُ ٱللّٰهُ نَفْسَهُ God maketh you to fear Himself. (TA.)


3. ⇒ حاذر

حَاذَرَا, (TḲ,) inf. n. مُحَاذَرَةٌ (Ṣ, Ḳ) and حِذَارٌ, (Ṣ,) They two were cautious, or in fear, each of the other; were on their guard, or in a state of preparation, each against the other. (TḲ.) حِذَارٌ is syn. with مُحَاذَرَةٌ, (Ṣ,) and مُحَاذَرَةٌ is between two. (Ḳ.)

Root: حذر - Entry: 3. Signification: A2

See also 1, in two places.


8. ⇒ احتذر

see 1, in five places.


11. ⇒ احذارّ

احدارّ He was angry, (Ḳ,) and prepared himself to do mischief, (TA,) and drew himself together (تَقَبَّضَ): so in some copies of the Ḳ and in other lexicons: or became enraged (تَغَيَّظَ): so in other copies of the Ḳ. (TA.)


حِذْرٌ

حِذْرٌ: see what next follows, in two places.


حَذَرٌ

حَذَرٌ andحِذْرٌ↓, (Ṣ, A, Mṣb, Ḳ,) the former an inf. n., (Ṣ, Mṣb,) and the latter a simple subst., (Mṣb,) Caution, wariness, vigilance, guard, or care; (Ṣ, A, Ḳ;) as alsoمَحْذُورَةٌ↓; (Ḳ;) or a state of preparation; (Mṣb;) or fear; (Mgh,* TA;) and soمَحْذُورَةٌ↓: (Ṣ, Mṣb, Ḳ:) [pl. أَحْذَارٌ.] You say,أَخَذَ حِذْرَهُ↓ He took care; was cautious, or vigilant. (Bḍ in iv. 73 and 103.) And هُوَ ٱبْنُ أَحْذَارٍHe is a son [i. e. a person] of resolution, or determination, and caution, or wariness. (Ṣ, Ḳ.) And حَذَرَكَ زَيْدًا: see حَذَارِ.

Root: حذر - Entry: حَذَرٌ Signification: A2

أَبُو حَذَرٍ The male chameleon: (Ḳ:) because of its frequent changes. (TA.)


حَذُرٌ / حَذِرُونَ / حَذَارَى

حَذُرٌ, and its pl. (حَذِرُونَ and حَذَارَى): see what next follows.


حَذِرٌ

حَذِرٌ (Ṣ, A, Mṣb, Ḳ) andحَذُرٌ↓ (Ṣ, A, Ḳ) Cautious; wary; vigilant; on his guard; careful; (Ṣ;) or in a state of preparation; (Mṣb;) as alsoحَاذِرٌ↓; (Ṣ, A, Mṣb;) and fearful: (Ṣ:) or very cautious or wary or vigilant or careful; as alsoحَاذُورَةٌ↓ (Ḳ) andحِذْرِيَانٌ↓: (A, Ḳ:) or this last signifies very fearful and cautious, &c.: (Ṣ:) pl. of the first حَذِرُونَ and حَذَارَى. (Ṣ, Ḳ.) Sb cites, as an ex. of حَذِرٌ used transitively,

* حَذِرٌ أُمُورًا لَا تُخَافُ وَآمِنٌ *
* مَا لَيْسَ مُنْجِيهِ مِنَ الأَقْدَارِ *

[Cautious, or very cautious, of things not to be feared, and trusting in that which will not save him from the decrees of destiny]: but this is extr.; for an epithet of the measure فَعِلٌ is not [regularly] trans., so as to govern an objective complement. (Ṣ, TA.) In the Ḳur xxvi. 56, some readحَاذِرُونَ↓; and some, حَذِرُونَ andحَذُرُونَ↓: حاذرون signifying in a state of preparation; (Zj, Ṣ;) or fully equipped with arms: (Sh:) and حذرون, in a state of fear; (Ṣ;) or in a state of preparation; (TA;) or in a state of preparation with the accoutrements of war; (Ibn-Mesʼood;) or cautious, or vigilant. (Zj.)


حِذْرِيَةٌ

حِذْرِيَةٌ A rugged piece of ground: (Ṣ, Ḳ:) or the top of a mountain, when it is hard and rugged, but level: (Aboo-Kheyreh:) and rough ground: (TA:) and a rugged [hill such as is termed] أَكَمَة; as alsoحِذْرِيَآءُ↓: (Ḳ:) pl. حَذَارَى and حَذَارٍ. (Ṣ.)

Root: حذر - Entry: حِذْرِيَةٌ Dissociation: B

Also The عِفْرِيَة [or feathers of the back of the neck] of a cock: (Ṣ, Ḳ:) pl. as above. (Ḳ)


حِذْرِيَآءُ

حِذْرِيَآءُ: see what next precedes.


حِذْرِيَانٌ

حِذْرِيَانٌ: see حَذِرٌ.


الحُذُرَّى

الحُذُرَّى, [like البُذُرَّى,] What is false, vain, or ineffectual; syn. البَاطِلُ. (Ḳ.)


حَذَارِ

حَذَارِ [an imperative verbal noun] meaning Beware; be cautious, wary, or on thy guard; or take care. (Ṣ, A, Ḳ.) The poet (Abu-n-Nejm, TA) says,

* حَذَارِ مِنْ أَرْمَاحِنَا حَذَارِ *

Beware of our spears: beware. (Ṣ, A.) And you say, سُمِعَتْ حَذَارِ فِى عَسْكَرِهِمْ [The cry “Bewarewas heard in their army]. (TA.) When the word is repeated, the second is sometimes with tenween: (Ḳ:) but this is only in poetry, when required by the metre, as in the following verse, cited by Lḥ:

* حَذَارِ حَذَارٍ مِنْ فَوَارِسِ دَارِمٍ *
* أَبَا خَالِدٍ مِنْ قَبْلِ أَنْ تَتَنَدَّمَا *

[Beware, beware of the horsemen of Dárim, O Aboo-Khálid, before that thou repent]. (TA.) You say also, حَذَارِكَ, [with the ك of allocution,] meaning Beware thou. (Lḥ, TA.) And when you caution a person [against another], حَذَرَكَ↓ زَيْدًا [Beware thou of Zeyd]; (Ḳ,* TA;) and حَذَارَيْكَ زَيْدًا, (Ḳ,) which latter means Beware thou, and beware thou again, of Zeyd: both then [also] being verbal nouns. (TA.)


حَذِيرٌ

حَذِيرٌ [A cautioner]. You say, أَنَا حَذِيرُكَ مِنْهُ i. e. مُحَذِّرُكَ [I am thy cautioner against him, or it]; (TA;) or أُحَذِّرُكَهُ [I caution thee against him, or it]: (Ḳ:) known to Aṣ as heard only from Lth. (TA.) [See also what next follows.]


حُذَارِيَاتٌ

حُذَارِيَاتٌ Persons who make others to fear: (Ḳ:) or rather, as others than F explain it, مُنْذِرُونَ [cautioners, or warners,, &c.]. (TA.)


حَاذِرٌ / حَاذِرُونَ

حَاذِرٌ and حَاذِرُونَ: see حَذِرٌ.


حَاذُورَةٌ

حَاذُورَةٌ: see حَذِرٌ.


أَحْذَرُ

أَحْذَرُ [More, and most, cautious, wary, vigilant, careful, or fearful]. You say, أَحْذَرُ مِنَ الغُرَابِ More fearful [or cautious,, &c.] than the raven: a prov. (Mgh.)


مَحْذُورٌ

مَحْذُورٌ A thing that is feared. (Mṣb.) One says, وَقَاكَ ٱللّٰهُ كُلَّ مَحْذُورٍ [May God preserve thee from everything that is feared]. (A.)


مَحْذُورَةٌ

مَحْذُورَةٌ A calamity that is feared, or regarded with caution: (Ḳ:) or a troop of horse making a hostile attack, or incursion, upon a people: or i. q. صَيْحَةٌ [app. as meaning a hostile attack, or incursion, when it comes upon a tribe suddenly, or unexpectedly; or it may here mean a punishment, or chastisement; or a crying-out, which is the primary signification]: (A:) and war. (Ḳ.)

Root: حذر - Entry: مَحْذُورَةٌ Signification: A2

See also حَذَرٌ, in two places.


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