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by Edward William Lane (1801-1876)

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1. ⇒ حرج

حَرِجَ, aor. ـَ {يَحْرَجُ}, inf. n. حَرَجٌ, It (a number of things) became collected together: and, necessarily, became close, strait, or narrow: (so accord. to an explanation of the inf. n. by Er-Rághib, in the TA:) said of anything, it was, or became, close, strait, or narrow. (KL.) One says of dust, حَرِجَ إِلَى حَائِطٍ, or سَنَدٍ, It rose, (Lth, Az, TA,) in a narrow place, (TA,) and became collected [against a wall, or an acclivity or the like]. (Lth, Az, TA.)

Root: حرج - Entry: 1. Signification: A2

حَرِجَ صَدْرُهُ, aor. and inf. n. as above, † His bosom became strait, or contracted; (Ṣ, A, Mgh, Mṣb, TA;) not expanded, or dilated, by reason of what was good. (TA.) And حَرِجَ alone, aor. and inf. n. as above, † He became disquieted, and contracted in bosom: and † he became in doubt; he doubted; because doubt disquiets the mind. (So accord. to explanations of the inf. n. by Er-Rághib, in the TA.)

Root: حرج - Entry: 1. Signification: A3

Also حَرِجَ, aor. and inf. n. as above, [† He became straitened, or in difficulty: and particularly, by the commission of a sin, or crime: (see حَرَجٌ, below:) and hence, simply,]he committed a sin, a crime, or an act of disobedience for which he deserved punishment. (Mṣb.)

Root: حرج - Entry: 1. Signification: A4

Also He looked, and was unable to move from his place by reason of fear and rage. (T, TA.) And حَرِجَتِ العَيْنُ, (Ṣ, A, Ḳ,) aor. ـَ {يَحْرَجُ}, (Ḳ,) inf. n. as above, (TA,)The eye became dazzled, (حَارَت, Ṣ, Ḳ, TA,) or sank in its socket, (غَارَت,) and its vision became straitened: (A, TA:) or it did not turn about, nor wink, by reason of intent gazing. (TA.)

Root: حرج - Entry: 1. Signification: A5

Also, (Ṣ, A, Ḳ,) aor. as above, (Ḳ,) and so the inf. n., (Ṣ, Ḳ,)It was, or became, forbidden, or prohibited, (Ṣ, A, Ḳ,) and attended with straitness, or difficulty. (A.) So in the saying, حَرِجَ عَلَىَّ ظُلْمُكَThe wronging of thee is forbidden, or prohibited, to me. (Ṣ, TA.) And حَرِجَ عَلَيْهِ السَّحُورُThe meal termed سحور became forbidden, or prohibited, to him, (A, TA,) namely, a man fasting, and attended with difficulty, (A,) by reason of the straitness of the time thereof. (TA.) And حَرِجَتِ الصَّلَاةُPrayer became forbidden, or prohibited, (A, and TA as from the Ḳ, [but not found by me in the copies of the Ḳ,]) عَلَيْهَا to her [by reason of legal impurity, as is shown in the A]. (A, TA.)

Root: حرج - Entry: 1. Signification: A6

حَرِجَ إِلَيْهِHe betook himself, or had recourse, to him, or it, for protection from a strait, or difficulty. (TA.) And حَرِجَ إِلَى كَذَا وَكَذَاHe betook himself to such and such things. (TA.)


2. ⇒ حرّج

حرّجهُ, (TA,) inf. n. تَحْرِيجٌ, (Ṣ, Ḳ,)He made it strait, or difficult; (Ṣ, Ḳ, TA;) and forbade it to be violated; namely, a right. (TA.)

Root: حرج - Entry: 2. Signification: A2

حرّج عَلَى حَيَّةٍHe said to a serpent, [by way of warning, lest it should be a Jinnee,] Thou wilt be in a strait if thou return to us; therefore blame us not if we reduce thee to a strait by pursuing and driving away and killing. (TA from a trad.)


4. ⇒ احرج

احرجهُ He made him to betake himself to a narrow, or confined, place; and so أَحْجَرَهُ and أَحْرَدَهُ. (TA.) And He made him (a dog or a beast of prey) to betake himself to a narrow, or confined, place, and then attacked him. (TA.) [Hence,] احرجهُ إِلَيْهِHe constrained him to betake himself, or have recourse, to him, or it. (Ṣ, A, Ḳ.) And احرجهُ إِلَى كَذَا وَكَذَاHe made him to betake himself to such and such things: (TA:) or he, or it, caused him to want such and such things. (AA, TA in art. دمغ.)

Root: حرج - Entry: 4. Signification: A2

He caused him to fall into a strait, or difficulty: (A, TA:) he straitened him; reduced him to a strait, or difficulty. (TA.)

Root: حرج - Entry: 4. Signification: A3

He made him, or caused him, to fall into a sin, a crime, or an act of disobedience for which he deserved punishment. (Ṣ, Ḳ, TA.)

Root: حرج - Entry: 4. Signification: A4

أَحْرَجْتُ الصَّلَاةَI made, or pronounced, prayer to be forbidden, or prohibited. (Ḳ.)

Root: حرج - Entry: 4. Dissociation: B

احرج كَلْبَهُ, (A,) or احرجهُ مِنْ صَيْدِهِ, (Aṣ, TA,) He gave to his dog a portion of his prey. (A.)


5. ⇒ تحرّج

تحرّجهُHe made it strait, or difficult, to himself. (TA.)

Root: حرج - Entry: 5. Dissociation: B

And تجرّجHe put away, or cast away, from himself, sin, or crime; (TA;) he shunned, avoided, or kept aloof from, sin, or crime; (Mgh;) he did a deed whereby he shunned, avoided, or kept aloof from, sin, or crime; (Mṣb TA;) syn. تَأَثَّمَ. (Ṣ, A, Mgh.) And تحرج مِنْهُHe shunned, avoided, or kept aloof from, it, as a sin, or crime. (A,* Mgh.) [See تَحَنَّثَ.]


حُرْجٌ

حُرْجٌ: see حَرَجٌ, in two places.


حِرْجٌ

حِرْجٌ: see حَرَجٌ.

Root: حرج - Entry: حِرْجٌ Dissociation: B

Also The dog's portion of the prey, or game; (Ṣ, A, Ḳ;) such as the head and the shanks and the belly: (TA:) what is thrown to the dog, of the prey, or game, that he has taken: (Az, TA:) or a piece of flesh: pl. أَحْرَاجٌ. (TA.)

Root: حرج - Entry: حِرْجٌ Dissociation: C

And A cowry; syn. وَدَعَةٌ: (Ṣ, A, Ḳ:) pl. أَحْرَاجٌ (Ṣ, A) and أَحْرِجَةٌ (T, TA) and حِرَاجٌ; (TA;) the second, [as also the first,] a pl. of pauc.: (T, TA:) or cowries (وَدَعٌ) which are hung upon the necks of dogs. (Aṣ, TA.)

Root: حرج - Entry: حِرْجٌ Signification: C2

And A dog's collar [of cowries]: (TA:) or a collar [of cowries] for any animal. (T, TA.)


حَرَجٌ

حَرَجٌ [inf. n. of 1, q. v.:]Straitness; a strait, or difficulty. (A,* TA.)

Root: حرج - Entry: حَرَجٌ Signification: A2

A sin, a crime, or an act of disobedience for which one deserves punishment; syn. إِثْمٌ; (Ṣ, Mṣb,* Ḳ;) as alsoحِرْجٌ↓: (Yoo, Ṣ, Ḳ:) or the straitness [which is the consequence] of sin or crime. (A, Mgh.)

Root: حرج - Entry: حَرَجٌ Signification: A3

[Hence,] لَا حَرَجَ i. q. لَا بَأسَ [There is, or will be, no harm in thy doing this or that]; and لَا إِثْمَ [there is, or will be, no sin, or crime]. (IAth, TA.)

Root: حرج - Entry: حَرَجٌ Dissociation: B

See also حَرِجٌ, in six places.

Root: حرج - Entry: حَرَجٌ Signification: B2

Also, applied to a she-camel, ‡ Lean, lank, light of flesh, slender, or lank in the belly; (Ṣ, Ḳ;) as alsoحُرْجُوجٌ↓, (Ṣ, A,) accord. to AZ, (Ṣ,) andحَرُوجٌ↓: (A:) orحُرْجُوجٌ↓ signifies, so applied, lean,, &c., as above, and sharp-spirited: (Ḳ:) or this last, (Ḳ,) and حَرَجٌ andحَرُوجٌ↓, (TA,) fat, (Ḳ, TA,) largebodied, (TA,) and long [lit. long upon the face of the ground, as distinguished from tall]: or strong: (Ḳ, TA:) and حَرَجٌ signifies also, (Ḳ,) or, as some say, and so do حُرْجُوجٌ↓ andحُرْجُجٌ↓ andجُرْحٌ↓, (Ṣ,) so applied, long [lit. long upon the face of the ground]: (Ṣ:) and some allow حِرْجِيجٌ↓ in the sense ofحُرْجُوجٌ↓; (TA;) which last is originallyحُرْجُجٌ↓, which is originallyجُرْحٌ↓: (Ṣ:) the pl. ofحُرْجُوجٌ↓ (Ṣ) and of حِرْجِيجٌ↓ (L) is حَرَاجِيحٌ. (Ṣ, L.)

Root: حرج - Entry: حَرَجٌ Dissociation: C

See also حَرَجَةٌ, in three places.

Root: حرج - Entry: حَرَجٌ Dissociation: D

Also A thing composed of pieces of wood, (Aṣ, Ṣ, Ḳ,) bound together, (Aṣ, Ṣ,) in which dead bodies are carried; (Aṣ, Ṣ, Ḳ;) sometimes put over the bier of a woman: (Ṣ:) accord. to the T, the حرج of a bier is a شِجَار, [i. e. the frame-work of a هَوْدَج,] which is constructed of wood, and put over the bier of a corpse: accord. to ISd, the حرج is a vehicle for women and men, which has no head. (TA.) See also نَعْشٌ, in two places.


حَرِجٌ

حَرِجٌ andحَرَجٌ↓ A strait, narrow, confined, or close, place: (TA:) or strait, narrow, confined, or close, in the utmost degree: (Zj, T:) or a strait, narrow, confined, or close, place, abounding with trees, (Ṣ, Ḳ,) and impenetrable to the pasturing animals: (Ṣ:) andحَرِيجٌ↓, also, applied to a place, signifies the same as حَرِجٌ. (TA.)

Root: حرج - Entry: حَرِجٌ Signification: A2

صَدْرٌ حَرِجٌ (Ṣ, Mṣb, TA) andحَرَجٌ↓, (Ṣ, A, TA,) like وَحِدٌ and وَحَدٌ, and فَرِدٌ and فَرَدٌ, and دَنِفٌ and دَنَفٌ, (Ṣ,) A bosom strait, or contracted; (A, Mṣb, TA;) not expanded, or dilated, by reason of what is good. (TA.) يَجْعَلْ صَدْرَهُ ضَيِّقًا حَرِجًا orحَرَجًا↓, accord. to different readings, [in the Ḳur vi. 125,] (Ṣ,) is explained by I’Ab as meaning He will make his bosom strait.impenetrable to wisdom. (TA.)

Root: حرج - Entry: حَرِجٌ Signification: A3

Also حَرِجٌ andحَرَجٌ↓ A man having a strait, or contracted, bosom, which does not expand, or dilate, by reason of what is good: the former has a dual and a pl.; but the latter has only the sing. form, because it is [properly, or originally,] an inf. n.: Zj says that the former is a part. n., and that by the latter is meant ذُو حَرَجٍ. (TA.)

Root: حرج - Entry: حَرِجٌ Signification: A4

And the former, † One who fears, or dreads, to venture upon an affair. (TA.)

Root: حرج - Entry: حَرِجٌ Signification: A5

And † That seldom, or never, withdraws from fight: (Ḳ:) that will not be put to flight; as though it were difficult for him to find an excuse for being put to flight. (TA.)

Root: حرج - Entry: حَرِجٌ Signification: A6

And Committing a sin, a crime, or an act of disobedience for which he deserves punishment; (Mṣb;) and soحَارِجٌ↓, which is thought by ISd to be after the manner of a rel. n., because it has no corresponding verb [of which it may be regarded as the part. n.; the regular part. n. being حَرِجٌ, as حَرِجَ is intrans.]. (TA.)

Root: حرج - Entry: حَرِجٌ Signification: A7

Also † Abstaining from sin, or crime; and soحَرَجٌ↓ andمُتَحَرِّجٌ↓. (TA.) [Thus bearing two contr. significations. See 5.]

Root: حرج - Entry: حَرِجٌ Signification: A8

Also, andحَرَجٌ↓, ‡ Forbidden, or prohibited: so in the phrase, ظُلْمُكَ عَلَىَّ حَرِجٌ and حَرَجٌ[The wronging of thee is forbidden, or prohibited, to me]. (A.)


حَرَجَةٌ

حَرَجَةٌA wood, or collection of trees; (Ṣ, Ḳ, TA;) so called because of their closeness: or dense and tangled trees: (TA:) or a thicket, or collection of dense and tangled trees, of the kind called سَلَم, into which no one can penetrate; (AHeyth, Az, TA;) or of the سَمُر and طَلْح and عَوْسَج and سَلَم and سِدْر; or of the سِدْر and olive and other trees: or a place in a wood where trees are dense and tangled, extending as far as a stone's throw: and also a tree which the pasturing animals cannot reach: (TA:) pl. حَرَجٌ↓ (Ṣ, Ḳ) [or rather this is a coll. gen. n., of which حَرَجَةٌ is the n. un.,] and حَرَجَاتٌ (Ṣ, A) and حِرَاجٌ (Ṣ) and [of pauc.] أَحْرَاجٌ: (A, TA:) orحَرَجٌ↓ signifies a place in which is a collection of trees, and where they are close together. (A.)

Root: حرج - Entry: حَرَجَةٌ Signification: A2

Also ‡ A collection of camels: (Ṣ, Ḳ, TA:) a hundred camels: (ISd, TA:) pl. [or rather coll. gen. n.] حَرَجٌ↓. (Ḳ.)


حُرْجُجٌ

حُرْجُجٌ: see حَرَجٌ, in two places.


حُرْجُوجٌ

حُرْجُوجٌ: see حَرَجٌ, in five places.


حِرْجِيجٌ

حِرْجِيجٌ: see حَرَجٌ, in two places.


حِرَاجٌ

حِرَاجٌ الظَّلْمَآءِ, (Ḳ,) or مِنَ الظَّلَامِ, (A, TA,) and مِنَ الظَّلْمَآءِ, (TA,)Dense darkness. (A,* Ḳ, TA.)


حَرُوجٌ

حَرُوجٌ: see حَرَجٌ, in two places.


حَرِيجٌ

حَرِيجٌ: see حَرِجٌ.


حَارِجٌ

حَارِجٌ: see حَرِجٌ.


مُحَرَّجٌ

مُحَرَّجٌ A dog having a collar of cowries; (Ṣ, Ḳ;) from حِرْجٌ: (Ṣ:) having cowries upon his neck. (Aṣ, TA.)


المُحَرَّجَاتِ

حَلَفَ فُلَانٌ بِالمُحَرَّجَاتِSuch a one swore by the three divorces [which render the wife absolutely forbidden to the husband]: (A:) or by the oaths that rendered his scope strait, or narrow. (Ḥar p. 178.)


مُتَحَرِّجٌ

مُتَحَرِّجٌ: see حَرِجٌ.


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