Classical Arabic - English Dictionary

حَدَجَهُ, (Ṣ, A, Ḳ,*) aor. ـِ {يَحْدِجُ}, inf. n. حَدْجٌ (Ṣ, Ḳ) and حِدَاجٌ, (TA,) He bound the حِدْج upon him, i. e., upon the camel; (Ṣ, A, Ḳ;) as alsoاحدجهُ↓: (Ḳ:) or he bound upon him the حِدَاجَة, i. e., the [saddle called] قَتَب and its apparatus; (Az, TA;) which apparatus consists of the بِدَادَانِ with the two girths called the بِطَان and the حَقَب, without which a camel is not [said to be] مَحْدُوج. (Sh, TA.) [See حِدْجٌ.] Accord. to J, حَدَجَ also signifies He bound loads, or burdens, and divided them into camel-loads: (TA:) but this is a meaning that was unknown to the Arabs. (Az, TA.) J cites as an ex. the words of El-Aạshà,

* أَلِلْبَيْنِ تُحْدَجُ أَحْمَالُهَا *

[Is it for separation that her loads are bound, &c.?]: but he adds that, accord. to one reading, the poet said أَجْمَالُهَا: and this [SM says] is the right reading. (TA.)

[Hence, حَدَجَ is used to signify ‡ He betook himself to warring for the sake of the religion.] ʼOmar is related to have said, حِجَّةٌ هٰهُنَا ثُمَّ ٱحْدِجْ هٰهُنَا حَتَّى تَفْنَى, meaning Perform one pilgrimage, then ‡ betake thyself to warring for the sake of the religion until thou become old and weak, or die; احدج literally signifying bind the حِدَاجَة upon the camel. (Az, TA.)

[Hence also,] حَدَجَهُ, (TA,) inf. n. حَدْجٌ, (Ḳ,) ‡ He imposed upon him in a sale. (Ḳ, TA.) You say, حَدَجْتُهُ بِبَيْعٍ سَوْءٍ (A, TA) ‡ I imposed upon him with a bad sale, and بِمَتَاعٍ سَوْءٍ with bad merchandise. (TA.) The person imposed upon is likened to a camel upon which a حِدَاجَة is bound. (Az, TA.)

And حَدَجْتُهُ بِمَهْرٍ ثَقيلٍ ‡ I imposed upon him a heavy dowry, by deceit and fraud. (A, TA.)

Also, aor. ـِ {يَحْدِجُ}, inf. n. حَدْجٌ, He cast حَدَج [or unripe and hard colocynths, or small colocynths, or small and green colocynths or melons,] at him. (A, TA.)

Hence, (A, TA,) حَدَجَهُ بِسَهْمٍ, (Ṣ, A,) inf. n. حَدْجٌ, (Ḳ,) ‡ He shot at him with an arrow. (Ṣ, A, Ḳ.) And حَدَجَهُ بِعَصًا, inf. n. حَدْجٌ, ‡ He beat him, or struck him, with a staff, or stick. (Ibn-El-Faraj, Ḳ,* TA.)

[Hence also,] حَدَجَهُ بِالتُّهَمَةِ, inf. n. حَدْجٌ, ‡ He cast suspicion upon him. (Ḳ,* TA,* TḲ.) And حَدَجَهُ بِذَنْبِ غَيْرِهِ (Ṣ, A) ‡ He accused him of the crime, or offence, of another, (Ṣ, TA,) and put it upon him. (TA.) And حَدَجَهُ بِبَصَرِهِ, (Ṣ, A,) aor. ـِ {يَحْدِجُ}, inf. n. حَدْجٌ (Ṣ, TA) and حُدُوجٌ; andحدّجهُ↓, inf. n. تَحْدِيجٌ; (TA;) ‡ He cast his eyes at him; (Ṣ, TA;) as also حَدَجَ إِلَيْهِ بَصَرَهُ: or he looked intently, and sharply, at him: or he looked at him with a look which he [the latter] suspected and disliked: (TA:) but حَدْجٌ in looking may be unattended by alarm, or fear: (Az, TA:) تَحْدِيجٌ↓ is like تَحْدِيقٌ, (Ṣ,) syn. therewith: (Ḳ:) and also signifies the looking intently, after alarm, or fear. (TA.)

Also حَدَجَ, aor. ـِ {يَحْدِجُ}, inf. n. حُدُوجٌ, † He (a horse) looked at the figure of a man, or the like, seen from a distance, or heard a sound, and raised his ears, and directed his eyes, towards it. (TA.)

حدّجهُ, inf. n. تَحْدِيجٌ: see 1, in two places.

see 1, first sentence.

أَحْدَجَتْ شَجَرَةُ الحَنْظَلِ The colocynth-plant bore, or produced, fruit such as is termed حَدَجٌ. (Ṣ.)

حِدْجٌ A certain thing upon which the women of the Arabs of the desert ride; not a رَحْل nor a هَوْدَج: (Lth, TA:) a certain vehicle, or thing to ride upon, for women, (Az, Ṣ, A, Ḳ,) like the مِحَفَّة, (Az, Ṣ, Ḳ,) and like the هَوْدَج; (Az, TA;) as alsoحِدَاجَةٌ↓: (Ṣ, A, Ḳ:) pl. of the former حُدُوجٌ and أَحْدَاجٌ (Ṣ, A, Ḳ) and حُدُجٌ; (AAF, TA;) and pl. of the latter حَدَائِجُ: (Yaạḳoob, Ṣ, A:) Az, however, says that ISk makes no difference between the حِدْج and the حِدَاجَة↓, though there is a difference between them accord. to the Arabs, as will be seen from what follows: Sh says that حِدْجٌ is a name given to a هُوْدَج bound upon a قَتَب [or small kind of camel's saddle] when it is bound upon the camel at once with all its apparatus: he also says that حِدَاجَةٌ↓ is a name given to the apparatus composed of the أَبِدَّة, [pl. of بِدَادٌ, q. v.,] which are also called مَخَالِى القَتَبِ, [and which are appertenances of the قتب,] when they are filled, and drawn together, and bound, and tied to the قتب: [and he shows, in his explanation of the verb حَدَجَ, that this apparatus comprises the قَتَب and بِدَادَانِ with the two girths called the بِطَان and the حَقَب: this is what is meant in the Ḳ by the saying that الحِدَاجَةُ↓ also signifies الأَدَاةُ:] Aboo-Sá'id El-Kilábee says that حداجة↓ signifies the apparatus (اداة) of the قتب: and Az says that it signifies the قتب with its apparatus. (TA.)

Also A load, or burden. (Ṣ, Ḳ.)

And [its pl.] حُدُوجٌ, Camels with their رِحَال [or saddles]. (TA.)

[حَدَجٌ a coll. gen. n.] The colocynth, or colocynths, when unripe and hard: (TA:) or when become hard; (Ṣ, TA;) before becoming yellow: (TA:) or small colocynths: (A:) or the colocynth or colocynths, and the melon or melons, (M, Ḳ,) while small and green, before becoming yellow, (M,) or while continuing succulent, or fresh, or green: (Ḳ:) or [more correctly] the melon or melons; and the colocynth, or colocynths, while continuing succulent, or fresh, or green: (T:) n. un. with ة {حَدَجَةٌ}. (Ṣ.)