حور
الــحَوْرُ: التّردّد إمّا بالذّات، وإمّا بالفكر، وقوله عزّ وجلّ: إِنَّهُ ظَنَّ أَنْ لَنْ يَــحُورَ
[الانشقاق/ 14] ، أي: لن يبعث، وذلك نحو قوله: زَعَمَ الَّذِينَ كَفَرُوا أَنْ لَنْ يُبْعَثُوا، قُلْ بَلى وَرَبِّي لَتُبْعَثُنَّ [التغابن/ 17] ، وحَارَ الماء في الغدير: تردّد فيه، وحَارَ في أمره: تحيّر، ومنه:
المِــحْوَر للعود الذي تجري عليه البكرة لتردّده، وبهذا النّظر قيل: سير السّواني أبدا لا ينقطع ، والسواني جمع سانية، وهي ما يستقى عليه من بعير أو ثور، ومَحَارَة الأذن لظاهره المنقعر، تشبيها بمحارة الماء لتردّد الهواء بالصّوت فيه كتردّد الماء في المحارة، والقوم في حَوْرٍ أي: في تردّد إلى نقصان، وقوله: «نعوذ بالله من الــحور بعد الكور» أي: من التّردّد في الأمر بعد المضيّ فيه، أو من نقصان وتردّد في الحال بعد الزّيادة فيها، وقيل: حار بعد ما كار. والمُحاوَرَةُ والحِوَار: المرادّة في الكلام، ومنه التَّحَاوُر، قال الله تعالى: وَاللَّهُ يَسْمَعُ تَحاوُرَكُما [المجادلة/ 1] ، وكلّمته فما رجع إليّ حَوَاراً، أو حَوِيراً أو مَــحُورَــةً ، أي: جوابا، وما يعيش بأحور، أي بعقل يــحور إليه، وقوله تعالى:
حُورٌ مَقْصُوراتٌ فِي الْخِيامِ
[الرحمن/ 72] ، وَــحُورٌ عِينٌ [الواقعة/ 22] ، جمع أَــحْوَرَ وحَوْرَــاء، والــحَوَر قيل: ظهور قليل من البياض في العين من بين السّواد، وأَــحْوَرَــتْ عينه، وذلك نهاية الحسن من العين، وقيل:
حَوَّرْــتُ الشّيء: بيّضته ودوّرته، ومنه: الخبز الحُوَّارَى، والحَوَارِيُّونَ أنصار عيسى صلّى الله عليه وسلم، قيل:
كانوا قصّارين ، وقيل: كانوا صيّادين، وقال بعض العلماء: إنّما سمّوا حواريّين لأنهم كانوا يطهّرون نفوس النّاس بإفادتهم الدّين والعلم المشار إليه بقوله تعالى: إِنَّما يُرِيدُ اللَّهُ لِيُذْهِبَ عَنْكُمُ الرِّجْسَ أَهْلَ الْبَيْتِ وَيُطَهِّرَكُمْ تَطْهِيراً [الأحزاب/ 33] ، قال: وإنّما قيل: كانوا قصّارين على التّمثيل والتشبيه، وتصوّر منه من لم يتخصّص بمعرفته الحقائق المهنة المتداولة بين العامّة، قال: وإنّما كانوا صيّادين لاصطيادهم نفوس النّاس من الحيرة، وقودهم إلى الحقّ، قال صلّى الله عليه وسلم: «الزّبير ابن عمّتي وحواريّ» وقوله صلّى الله عليه وسلم: «لكلّ نبيّ حَوَارِيٌّ وحواريّ الزّبير» فتشبيه بهم في النّصرة حيث قال: مَنْ أَنْصارِي إِلَى اللَّهِ قالَ الْحَوارِيُّونَ: نَحْنُ أَنْصارُ اللَّهِ [الصف/ 14] .

حور
الــحَوْرُ: الرُّجُوْعُ إلى الشَّيْءِ وعنه. وحارَتِ الغُصَّةُ تَــحُوْرُ: انْحَدَرَتْ، وأحارَها صاحِبُها. وكُلُّ شَيْءٍ يَتَغَّيُر من حالٍ إلى حالٍ: فقد حارَ. وفي الحديث: " الــحَوْر بَعْدَ الكَوْرِ أي الزِّيادَة بعد النُّقْصانِ. والمُحَاوَرَةُ: مُرَاجَعَةُ الكَلامِ. حاوَرْتُ فلاناً، وأحَرْتُ إليه جَوَاباً، والمَــحُوْرُ: مَرْجُوْعُ الجَوابِ. وما أحَارَ بكلمةٍ. والحَوِيْرُ: المُحَاوَرَةُ، وكذلك الحِوَارُ والــحِوَرُ والمَــحُوْرَــةُ أيضاً.
ويقولُ الرَّجُلُ لِصاحِبِه: واللِه ما تَــحُوْرُ ولا تَحُوْلُ، أي لا تَزْدادُ خَيْراً. ومَحَاوِرُ الرَّجُلِ: مَصَائرُ أمْرِه، واحِدَتُها: مَــحْوَرَــةٌ. والمَــحُوْرَــةٌ - أيضاً - الرُّجُوْعُ. والــحُوْرُ: النُّقْصَانُ - بِضَمِّ الحاءِ؛ على مِثالِ النُّوْرِ -. وفي مَثَلٍ: " حُوْرٌ في مَحَارَةٍ " أي باطِلٌ في نَقْصٍ، وقد يُفْتَحُ الحاءُ ومَعْناه: رُجُوْعٌ في نُقْصَانٍ. والمَحَارَةُ: المَنْقَصَةُ. وإنَّه لَفي حُوْرٍ وبُوْرٍ: أي في ضَيْعَةٍ. والإحَارَةُ: رَجْعُ اليَدِ في السَّيْرِ. والــحَوْرُ: ما تَحْتَ الكَوْرِ من العِمامَةِ. وهي أيضاً: خَشَبَةٌ يُقال لها البَيْضَاءُ. وكذلك الأدِيْمُ المَصْبُوْغُ بِحُمْرَةٍ، يُقال: حَوَّرْــتُه تَحْوِيْراً، والجَميعُ: الأحْوَارُ.
والحِوَارُ والحُوَارُ: الفَصِيْلُ أوَّلَ ما يُنْتَجُ، والجَمِيعُ: الحِيْرَانُ. وأحارَتِ النّاقَةُ: صارَتْ ذاتَ حُوَارٍ، والعَرَبُ تُسَمِّي عَقْرَبَ الشِّتَاءِ: عُقَيْرِبَ الحِيْرَانِ، ولا يُنْتِجُوْنَ فيها، أي تُضِرُّ بالحُوَارِ.
والــحَوَرُ: الأَدْيْمُ المَصْبُوْغُ بِحُمْرَةٍ. والــحَوَرُ: شِدَّةُ بَيَاضِ بَيَاضِ العَيْنِ في شِدَّةِ سَوَادِ سَوَادِها، وامْرَأةٌ حَوْراءُ: بَيْضاءُ حَسَنَة.واحْوَرَّــتْ عَيْنُ. صارتْ حَوْراءَ. والجَميعُ: الــحُوْرُ والحِيْرُ. وامْرَأةٌ حَوَارِيَّةٌ: بَيْضاء. وعَيْنٌ حَوْراءُ: مُسْتَدِيْرَةٌ. والمِــحْوَرُ: الحَدِيْدَةُ التي يَدُوْرُ فيها لِسَانُ الإبْزِيْمِ. وهي أيضاً: الخَشَبَةُ التي تَدُوْرُ عليها البَكْرَةُ، والتي يُبْسَطُ بها العَجِيْنُ. والحُوّاري: أجْوَدُ الدَّقِيْقِ وأخْلَصُه. وحَوَّرْــتُ الدَّقِيْقَ: بَيَّضْتُه. وحُرْتُ الثَّوْبَ وحَوَّرْــتُه: بَيَّضْتُه بالغَسْل. والحَوَارِيُّوْنَ: ناصِرُوْ النبي صلى الله عليه وسلم، وناصِرُوْ عيسى بن مريم صلى الله عليه وسلم، وكُلُّ مُجَاهِدٍِ عند العَرَبِ: حَوَارِيٌّ.
وقال الأصمعيُّ: ما يَعِيْشُ بأحْوَرَ؛ أي بعَقْلٍ، وقيل بقَلْبٍ وَحَاشٍ. وماله حَوَرْــوَرٌ: أي شَيْءٌ. وحَوَّرْــتُ البَعيرَ: كَوَيْتُه، والمِــحْوَرَــةُ: المِكْوَاةُ. وحَوِّرْ عَيْنَ بَعِيرِكَ: أي حَجِّرْ حَوْلَها بِكَيٍّ. والكَيَّةُ تُسَمّى الــحَوْرَــاءَ.
وحَوَّرَ الحائطَ: بمَعْناه. والحارَةُ: كلُّ مُسْتَدَارٍ من فَضَاءٍ وغيرِه مَبْنِيّاً أوغيرَ مَبْنِيٍّ. وحُوِّرَــتْ خَوَاصِرُ الإبِلِ: وهو أنْ يُؤْخَذَ خِثْيُها فَيُضْرَبَ به على خَوَاصِرِها. والحائرُ: المَهْزُوْلُ. والوَدَكُ أيضاً. واحْوَرَّــتِ القِدْرُ: ابْيَضَّ لَحْمُها قبل النُّضْجِ.
والــحَوَرُ: ما تَحْفِلُ به النِّساءُ وُجُوْهَها عند الزِّيْنَةِ؛ يُتَّخَذُ من الرَّصَاصِ. والــحَوَرُ: شَجَرٌ، في قول الراعي:
كالجَوْزِ نُطِّقَ بالصَّفْصَافِ والــحَوَرِ
وفي المَثَلِ في شَوَاهِدِ الظّاهِرِ على الباطِنِ " أرَاكَ بَشَرٌ ما أحَارَ مِشْفَرةٌ " أحَارَ: رَدَّ إلى جَوْفِه، وهو كقولهم: " عَيْنُه فِرَارُه ".
وطَحَنْتُ الطّاِحَنَة فما أحَارَتْ شَيْئاً من الدَّقِيقِ: أي ما رَدَّتْ. والــحَوَرُ: أنْ تَسْوَدَّ عَيْنُ البَقَرَةِ والظَّبْيِ كُلُّها، وليس في بَني آدَمَ أحْوَرُ.

حور

1 حَارَ, aor. ـُ (S,) inf. n. حَوْرٌ and حُؤُورٌ (S, K) and حُورٌ, a contraction of the form next preceding, used in poetry, in case of necessity, (TA,) and مَحَارٌ (S, K) and مَحَارَةٌ (K) and حَوْرَــةٌ, (TA,) He, or it, returned, (S, L, K,) إِلَى شَىْءٍ

to a thing, and عَنْهُ from it. (L.) b2: [Hence,] حار عَلَيْهِ It (a false imputation) returned to him [who was its author; or recoiled upon him]. (TA, from a trad.) b3: And حَارَتِ الغُصَّةُ The thing sticking in the throat, and choking, descended; as though it returned from its place. (TA.) b4: [And حار, inf. n. حَوْرٌ and حُورٌ, He returned from a good state to a bad.] You say, حار بَعْدَ مَا كَانَ (TA on the authority of 'Ásim, and so in a copy of the S,) He returned from a good state after he had been in that state: (A 'Obeyd, S, * TA:) so says 'Asim: (TA:) or حار بعد ما كَارَ (TA, and so in copies of the S,) He became in a state of defectiveness after he had been in a state of redundance: (TA:) or it is from حار, inf. n. حَوْرٌ, He untwisted his turban: (Zj, TA:) and means (assumed tropical:) He became in a bad state of affairs after he had been in a good state. (TA. [See حَوْرٌ, below.]) b5: حَارَ وَبَارَ He became in a defective and bad state. (TA. [Here بار is an imitative sequent; (see حَائِرٌ;) as is also يَبُورُ in a phrase mentioned below.]) b6: حار, aor. as above, (Msb,) inf n.

حَوْرٌ (S, A, Msb, K) and حُورٌ (S, A, K) and مَحَارَةٌ (S) and مَحَارٌ, (M and TA in art. اول,) It decreased, or became defective or deficient. (S, * A, * Msb, K. * [See also حَوْرٌ, below.]) b7: Also, inf. n. حَوْرٌ (TA) and حُورٌ, (S, K,) He perished, or died. (S, * K, * TA.) b8: Also, aor. ـُ inf. n. حَوْرٌ, He, or it, became changed from one state, or condition, into another: and it became converted into another thing. (TA.) b9: مَا يَــحُورُ فُلَانٌ وَلَا يَبُورُ Such a one does not increase nor become augmented [in his substance] (Ibn-Háni, K *) is said when a person's being afflicted with smallness of increase is confirmed. (Ibn-Háni, TA.) A2: حار, (TK,) inf. n. حَوْرٌ, (K,) He was, or became, confounded, or perplexed, and unable to see his right course; syn. تَحَيَّرَ. (K, * TK.) [See also art. حير.]

A3: See also 2.

A4: حَوِرَ, aor. ـَ inf. n. حَوَرٌ; (K;) and حَوِرَــتْ, aor. and inf. n. as above; (Msb;) and ↓ احوّر, (K,) inf. n. اِــحْوِرَــارٌ; (TA;) and احوّرت; (S, K; *) He, (a man, K, TA,) and it, (an eye, S, Msb, K, * TA,) was, or became, characterized by the quality termed حَوَرٌ as explained below. (S, Msb, K, TA.) 2 حوّرهُ, inf. n. تَحْوِيرٌ, He made him, or it, to return. (Zj, K.) b2: He (God) denied him, or prohibited him from attaining, what he desired, or sought; disappointed him; frustrated his endeavour, or hope; (K, TA;) and caused him to return to a state of defectiveness. (TA.) A2: حوّر, inf. n. as above, He whitened clothes, or garments, (S, Msb,) and wheat, or food: (S:) and ↓ حار, (K,) aor. ـُ inf. n. حَوْرٌ, (TA,) he washed and whitened a garment, or piece of cloth; (K;) but حوّر is better known in this sense. (TA.) b2: حوّر عَيْنَ البَعِيرِ, (inf. n. as above, TA,) He burned a mark round the eye of the camel with a circular cauterizing-instrument, (S, K, *) on account of a disorder: because the place becomes white. (TA.) A3: [He prepared skins such as are called حَوَرٌ: a meaning indicated, but not expressed, in the TA. b2: And app. He lined a boot with such skin: see مُــحَوَّرٌ.]

A4: Also, (inf. n. as above, TA,) He prepared a lump of dough, and made it round, (S, K,) with a مِــحْوَر, (TA,) to put it into the hole containing hot ashes in which it was to be baked: (S, K:) he made it round with a مِــحْوَر. (A.) 3 حاورهُ, (A, Mgh, Msb,) and حاورهُ الكَلَامَ, (TA in art. رجع, &c.,) inf. n. مُحَاوَرَةٌ (S, Mgh, K) and حِوَارٌ, (A, Mgh,) He returned him answer for answer, or answers for answers; held a dialogue, colloquy, conference, disputation, or debate, with him; or bandied words with him; syn. جَاوَبَهُ, (S, and Jel in xviii. 35,) and رَاجَعَهُ الكَلَامَ, (A, Mgh, Msb,) or رَاجَعَهُ فِى الكَلَامِ, (Bd in xviii. 32,) or, of the inf. n., مُرَاجَعَةُ النُّطْقِ. (K.) And حاورهُ He vied, or competed, with him, or contended with him for superiority, in glorying, or boasting, or the like; syn. فَاخَرَهُ. (Jel. in xviii. 32.) 4 احار [He returned a thing]. You say, طَحَنَتْ فَمَا أَحَارَتْ شَيْئًا She ground, and did not return (مَا رَدَّتْ) anything of the flour [app. for the loan of the hand-mill: see حُورٌ, below]. (S, K.) b2: احار الغُصَّةَ He swallowed the thing sticking in his throat and choking him; [as though he returned it from its place: see 1: see also 4 in art. حير: and see an ex. voce إِحَارَةٌ.] (TA.) And فُلَانٌ سَرِيعُ الإِحَارَةِ Such a one is quick in swallowing: [said to be] from what next follows. (Meyd, TA.) b3: احار, (S, K, &c.,) inf. n. إِحَارَةٌ, (TA,) He returned an answer, or a reply. (Msb, TA.) You say, كَلَّمْتُهُ فَمَا أَحَارَ إِلَىَّ جَوَابًا I spoke to him, and he did not return to me an answer, or a reply. (S, A, * Msb, * K, *) And in like manner, مَا أَحَارَ بِكَلِمَةِ [He did not return a word in answer, or in reply]. (TA.) A2: احارت She (a camel) had a young one such as is called حُوَار. (K.) 6 تحاوروا, (Msb, K, &c.,) inf. n. تَحَاوُرٌ, (S, K,) They returned one another answer for answer, or answers for answers; held a dialogue, colloquy, conference, disputation, or debate, one with another; or bandied words, one with another; syn. تَجَاوَبُوا, (S, K,) and تَرَاجَعُوا, (Jel in lviii. & ا,) or تَرَاجَعُوا الكَلَامَ, (Msb, K,) or تَرَاجَعُوا فِى الكَلَامِ. (Bd in lviii. 1.) [And They vied, or competed, or contended for superiority, one with another, in glorying, or boasting, or the like: see 3.]9 احوّر, (S, K, &c.,) inf. n. اِــحْوِرَــارٌ, (K,) It (a thing, S, Msb, and the body, TA, and the part around the eye, A, and bread, S, or some other thing, TA) was, or became, white. (S, A, Msb, K.) b2: See also 1, last sentence.10 استحارهُ He desired him to speak [or to return an answer or a reply; he interrogated him]. (S, K.) And استحار الدَّارَ He desired the house to speak [to him; he interrogated the house; as a lover does in addressing the house in which the object of his love has dwelt]. (IAar.) حَوْرٌ inf. n. of حَارَ. (S, A, Msb, K.) [Hence,] نَعُوذُ بِاللّٰهِ مِنَ الــحَوْرِ بَعْدَ الكَوْنِ, (TA on the authority of 'Ásim, and so in a copy of the S,) a trad., (TA,) meaning We have recourse to God for preservation from decrease, or defectiveness, after increase, or redundance: (S:) or مِنَ الــحَوْرِ بَعْدَ الكَوْرِ, (TA, and so in copies of the S,) meaning as above: (S, TA:) or (assumed tropical:) from a bad state of affairs after a good state; from حَوْرٌ signifying the “ untwisting ” a turban: (TA:) or from returning and departing from the community [of the faithful] after having been therein; [from حَارَ “ he untwisted ” his turban, and] from كَارَ “ he twisted ” his turban upon his head. (Zj, TA. [See also كَوْرٌ.]) ↓ فِى مَحَارَةٍ ↓ حُورٌ, (S, K,) and حَوْرٌ, (K,) Deficiency upon deficiency, (S, K,) and return upon return, (TA,) is a prov., applied to him whose good fortune is retiring; (S, K;) or to him who is not in a good state; or to him who has been in a good state and has become in a bad state: (K:) or the saying is, ↓ فُلَانٌ حَوْرٌ فِى مَحَارَةٍ [Such a one is suffering deficiency upon deficiency: حَوْرٌ being used in the sense of حَائِرٌ, like بَوْرٌ in the sense of بَائِرٌ]: so heard by IAar; and said by him to be applied in the case of a thing not in a good state; or to him who has been in a good state and has become in a bad state. (TA.) One says also, البَاطِلُ فِى

حَوْرٍ What is false, or vain, is waning and retreating. (TA.) And وَبُورٍ ↓ إِنَّهُ فِى حُورٍ, (K,) or حُورٍ بُورٍ, (K in art. حير,) Verily he is engaged in that which is not a skilful nor a good work or performance: (فِى غَيْرِ صَنْعَةٍ وَلَا إِجَادَةٍ: so in the L: in the K, for احادة is put إِتَاوَةٍ [which is evidently a mistake]: TA:) or he is in a bad state, and a state of perdition: (TA in art. حير:) or in error. (K. [See also بُورٌ: and see بَائِرٌ, in art. بور; where it is implied that بور is here an imitative sequent of حور.]) And ذَهَبَ فُلَانٌ فِى

وَالبَوَارُ ↓ الحَوَارِ Such a one went away in a defective and bad state. (L, TA.) b2: See also حَوِيرٌ.

A2: What is beneath the [part called] كَوْرٌ of a turban. (K.) A3: The bottom of a well or the like. (K.) b2: Hence, (TA,) هُوَ بَعِيدُ الــحَوْرِ (assumed tropical:) He is intelligent; (K;) deep in penetration. (TA.) حُورٌ: see حَوْرٌ, in two places.

A2: Also [app. A return of flour for the loan of a hand-mill; like عُقْبَةٌ (a subst. from أَعْقَبَ) signifying some broth which is returned with a borrowed cooking-pot:] a subst. from احارت in the phrase طَحَنَتْ فَمَا

أَحَارَتْ شَيْئًا [q. v. suprà]. (S, K.) حَوَرٌ Intense whiteness of the white of the eye and intense blackness of the black thereof, (S, Msb, K,) with intense whiteness, or fairness, of the rest of the person: (K:) or intense whiteness of the white of the eye and intense blackness of the black thereof, with roundness of the black, and thinness of the eyelids, and whiteness, or fairness, of the parts around them: (K:) or blackness of the whole [of what appears] of the eye, as in the eyes of gazelles (AA, S, Msb, K) and of bulls and cows: (AA, S:) and this is not found in human beings, but is attributed to them by way of comparison: (AA, S, Msb, K:) As says, I know not what is الــحَوَرُ in the eye. (S.) b2: Also [simply] Whiteness. (A.) A2: Red skins, with which [baskets of the kind called] سِلَال are covered: (S, K:) [a coll. gen. n.:] n. un. with ة: (S:) pl. حُورَــانٌ: (K, TA: in the CK حَوَرانٌ:) or (so in the TA, but in the K “ and ”) a hide dyed red: (K, TA:) or red skins, not [such as are termed] قَرَظِيَّة: pl. أَحْوَارٌ: (AHn:) or skins tanned without قَرَظ: or thin white skins, of which [receptacles of the kind called] أَسْفَاط are made: or prepared sheep-skins. (TA.) [In the present day, pronounced حَوْر, applied to Sheep-skin leather.]

A3: A certain kind of tree: the people of Syria apply the name of حَوْرٌ to the plane-tree (دُلْب); but it is حَوَرٌ, with two fet-hahs: in the account of simples in the Kánoon [of Ibn-Seenà], it is said to be a certain tree of which the gum is called كهرباء: (Mgh:) [by the modern Egyptians (pronounced حَوْر) applied to the white poplar:] a certain kind of wood, called البَيْضَآءُ, (K,) because of its whiteness. (TA.) A4: الــحَوَرُ The third star, [e,] that next the body, of the three in the tail of Ursa Major. (Mir-át ez-Zemán, &c. [In the K it is incorrectly said to be the third star of بَنَاتُ نَعْشٍ الصُّغْرَى. See القَائِدُ, in art. قود.]) حَارَةٌ [A quarter of a city or town; generally consisting of several narrow streets, or lanes, of houses, and having but one general entrance, with a gate, which is closed at night; or, which is the case in some instances, having a by-street passing through it, with a gate at each end:] a place of abode of a people, whereof the houses are contiguous: (Msb:) any place of abode of a people whereof the houses are near [together]: (K in art. حير:) a spacious encompassed tract or place; syn. مُسْتَدَارٌ مِنْ فَضَآءٍ: (A:) pl. حَارَاتٌ. (A, Msb.) حِيرَةٌ: see حَوِيرٌ.

حَوْرَــآءُ fem. of أَــحْوَرُ [q. v.]. b2: Also A round, or circular, burn, made with a hot iron; (K;) [around the eye of a camel; (see 2;)] so called because its place becomes white. (TA.) حَوَرْــوَرَةٌ: see حَوَارِيَّةٌ, under حَوَارِىٌّ.

حَوَارٌ: see حَوِيرٌ: A2: and see حَوْرٌ.

حُوَارٌ, (S, K, &c.,) and sometimes with kesr [↓ حِوَارٌ], (K,) but this latter is a bad form, (Yaakoob,) A young camel when just born: (T, K:) or until weaned; (S, K;) i. e. from the time of its birth until big and weaned; (TA;) when it is called فَصِيلٌ: (S:) fem. with ة: (IAar:) pl. (of pauc., S) أَــحْوِرَــةٌ and (of mult., S) حِيرَانٌ and حُورَــانٌ. (S, K.) [Its flesh is insipid: see a verse cited as an ex. of the word مَسِيخٌ.]

b2: [Hence,] عَقْرَبُ الحِيرَانِ The scorpion of winter; because it injures the حُوَار, (K, TA,) i. e. the young camel. (TA.) حِوَارٌ: see حَوِيرٌ: A2: and see also حُوَارٌ.

حَوِيرٌ (S, K,) and ↓ حَوِيرَةٌ, (S, and so in some copies of the K,) or ↓ حُوَيْرَةٌ, (so in other copies of the K and in the TA,) and ↓ حَوَارٌ (S, K) and ↓ حِوَارٌ (K) and ↓ مَــحُورَــةٌ (S, K, TA, in the CK مَــحْوُرَــةٌ) and ↓ مَــحْوَرَــةٌ and ↓ مُحَاوَرَةٌ [originally an inf. n. of 3] and ↓ حِيرَةٌ (K) and ↓ حَوْرٌ, (TA,) An answer; a reply. (S, K.) You say, مَا رَجَعَ إِلَىَّ حَوِيرًا, &c., He did not return to me an answer, or a reply. (S.) [See a verse of Tarafeh cited voce مُجْمِدٌ.]

حَوِيرَةٌ, or حُوَيْرَةٌ: see what next precedes.

حَوَارِىٌّ One who whitens clothes, or garments, by washing and beating them. (S, M, Msb, K.) Hence its pl. حَوَارِيُّونَ is applied to The companions [i. e. apostles and disciples] of Jesus, because their trade was to do this. (S, M, Msb.) [Or it is so applied from its bearing some one or another of the following significations.] b2: One who is freed and cleared from every vice, fault, or defect: [or] one who has been tried, or proved, time after time, and found to be free from vices, faults, or defects; from حَارَ “ he returned. ” (Zj, TA.) b3: A thing that is pure, or unsullied: anything of a pure, or an unsullied, colour: and hence, b4: One who advises, or counsels, or acts, sincerely, honestly, or faithfully: (Sh:) or a friend; or true, or sincere, friend: (TA:) or an assistant: (S, Msb, K:) or a strenuous assistant: (TA:) or an assistant of prophets: (K:) or a particular and select friend and assistant of a prophet: and hence the pl. is applied to the companions of Mohammad also. (Zj.) b5: A relation. (K.) b6: And حَوَارِيَّةٌ A white, or fair, woman; (A;) as also ↓ حَوَرْــوَرَةٌ; (T, K;) and so ↓ حَوْرَــآءُ, without implying حَوَرٌ of the eye: (TA:) pl. of the first حَوَارِيَّاتٌ: (A:) or this pl. signifies women of the cities or towns; (K;) so called by the Arabs of the desert because of their whiteness, or fairness, and cleanness: (TA:) or women clear in complexion and skin; because of their whiteness, or fairness: (TA:) or women inhabitants of regions, districts, or tracts, of cities, towns, or villages, and of cultivated land: (Ksh and Bd in iii. 45:) or [simply] women; because of their whiteness, or fairness. (S.) حُوَّارَى White, applied to flour: (A, * K:) such is the best and purest of flour: (K, TA:) and in like manner applied to bread: (A:) or whitened, applied to flour; (S;) and, in this latter sense, to any food. (S, K.) [See also سَمِيدٌ: and see مُــحَوَّرٌ.]

رَجُلٌ حَائِرٌ بَائِرٌ A man in a defective and bad state: (S, TA:) or perishing, or dying. (S.) [See the same phrase in art. حير: see also حَوْرٌ: and see بَائِرٌ, in art. بور; where it is said that بائر is here an imitative sequent of حائر.]

A2: See also مَحَارَةٌ.

أَــحْوَرُ, (K,) applied to a man, (TA,) Having eyes characterized by the quality termed حَوَرٌ as explained above: (K:) and so حَوْرَــآءُ, [the fem.,] applied to a woman: (S, Msb, K: *) pl. حُورٌ. (S, K.) And حُورُ العِينِ, applied to women, Having eyes like those of gazelles and of cows. (AA, S.) Az says that a woman is not termed حَوْرَــآء unless Combining حَوَر of the eyes with whiteness, or fairness, of complexion. (TA.) See also حَوَارِيَّةٌ, under حَوَارِىٌّ. b2: طَرْفٌ أَــحْوَرُ An eye of pure white and black. (A.) b3: الأَــحْوَرُ A certain star: (S, K:) or (K) Jupiter. (S, K.) A2: Also (tropical:) Intellect: (ISk, S, K:) or pure, or clear, intellect; like an eye so termed, of pure white and black. (A.) So in the saying, مَا يَعِيشُ بُأَــحْوَرَ (tropical:) [He does not live by intellect: or by pure, or clear, intellect]. (ISk, S, A.) أَــحْوَرِــىٌّ A man (TA) white, or fair, (S, K,) of the people of the towns or villages. (TA.) [See also حَوَارِىٌّ; of which the fem. is applied in like manner to a woman.]

مَحَارٌ: see مَحَارَةٌ, in two places.

مِــحْوَرٌ The pin of wood, or, as is sometimes the case, of iron, on which the sheave of a pulley turns; (S;) the iron [pin] that unites the bent piece of iron which is on each side of the sheave of a pulley, and in which it [the مــحور] is inserted, and the sheave itself: and a piece of wood which unites (تَجْمَعُ) the sheave of a large pulley [app. with what is on each side of the latter; for it seems to mean here, also, the pivot]: (K:) some say that it is so called because it turns round, returning to the point from which it departed: others, that it is so called because, by its revolving, it is polished so that it becomes white: (Zj:) pl. مَحَاوِرُ. (A.) One says, قَلِقَتْ مَحَاوِرُهُ, meaning (tropical:) His circumstances, (A,) or affair, or case, (K,) became unsettled: (A, K:) from the state of the pin of the sheave of a pulley when it becomes smooth, and the hole becomes large, so that it wabbles. (A.) b2: Also A thing (K) of iron (TA) upon which turns the tongue of a buckle at the end of a waist-belt. (K.) b3: and An iron instrument for cauterizing [app. of a circular form: see 2]. (K.) b4: And The wooden implement (S, K) of the baker, or maker of bread, (S,) with which he expands the dough, (K,) and prepares it, and makes it round, to put it into the hot ashes in which it is baked: (TA:) so called because of its turning round upon the dough, as being likened to the مــحور of the sheave of a pulley, and because of its roundness. (T.) مَحَارَةٌ: see حَوْرٌ, in two places.

A2: Also A place that returns [like a circle]: or in which a return is made [to the point of commencement]. (K.) b2: A mother-of-pearl shell; an oyster-shell: (S, IAth, Msb, K:) or the like thereof, of bone: (S, K:) pl. مَحَاوِرُ and [coll. gen. n.] ↓ مَحَارٌ. (L.) b3: And hence, A thing in which water is collected; as also ↓ حَائِرٌ. (IAth.) b4: [Hence also,] An oyster [itself]; expl. by دَابَّةٌ فِى الصَّدَفَيْنِ. (L in art. محر.) b5: The cavity of the ear; (K;) i. e. the external, deep, and wide, cavity, around the ear-hole; or the صَدَفَة [or concha] of the ear. (TA.) b6: The part of the shoulder-blade called its مَرْجِع [q. v.]: (S, K:) or the small round hollow that is in that part of the shoulder-blade in which the head of the humerus turns. (TA.) b7: The small round cavity of the hip: and the dual signifies the two round heads [?] of the hips, in which the heads of the thighs turn. (TA.) b8: The palate; syn. حَنَكٌ: and without ة, i. e. ↓ مَحَارٌ, the same, of a man: and, this latter, the place, in a beast, where the farrier performs the operation termed تَحْنِيكٌ: (TA:) or the former signifies the upper part of the mouth of a horse, internally: (IAar, TA:) or the inner part of the palate: (Abu-l-' Omeythil, TA:) or, [which seems to be the same,] the portion of the upper part of the mouth which is behind the فِرَاشَة [or فِرَاش]: and the passage of the breath to the innermost parts of the nose: (TA:) or مَحَارَةُ الحَنَكِ signifies the part [of the palate] which is a little above the place where the farrier performs the operation termed تحنيك. (S.) b9: The part between the frog and the extremity of the fore part of a solid hoof. (Abu-l-' Omeythil, K.) What is beneath the إِطَار [q. v., app. here meaning the اطار of the hoof of a horse or the like]. (TA.) And The مَنْسِم [i. e. toe, or nail, &c.,] of a camel. (TA.) A3: A thing resembling [the kind of vehicle called] a هَوْدَج; (K;) pronounced by the vulgar [مَحَارَّة,] with teshdeed: pl. مَحَارْاتٌ (TA) [and مَحَائِرُ, which is often applied in the present day to the dorsers, or panniers, or oblong chests, which are borne, one on either side, by a camel, and, with a small tent over them, compose a هودج]: the [ornamented هودج called the]

مَحْمِل [vulgarly pronounced مَحْمَل] of the pilgrims [which is borne by a camel, but without a rider, and is regarded as the royal banner of the caravan; such as is described and figured in my work on the Modern Egyptians]. (Msb.) A4: I. q. خَطٌّ [A line, &c.]. (K.) b2: And i. q. نَاحِيَةٌ [A side, region, quarter, tract, &c.]. (K.) مَــحُورَــةٌ and مَــحْوَرَــةٌ: see حَوِيرٌ.

مُــحْوَرُّ القِدْرِ The whiteness of the froth, or of the scum, of the cooking-pot. (S.) b2: جَفْنَةٌ مُــحْوَرَّــةٌ, [in the copies of the K, erroneously, مُــحَوَّرَــةٌ,] A bowl whitened by [containing] camel's hump, (S, L, K,) or its fat. (A.) مُــحَوَّرٌ Dough of which the surface has been moistened with water, so that it is shining. (TA.) [See also 2.] b2: أَعْيُنٌ مُــحَوَّرَــاتٌ, in a verse of El-'Ajjáj, Eyes of a clear white [in the white parts] and intensely black in the black parts. (S.) A2: A boot lined with skin of the kind called حَوَرٌ. (K.) مُــحَوِّرٌ A possessor of [flour, or bread, such as is termed] حُوَّارَى. (TA.) مُحَاوَرَةٌ: see حَوِيرٌ.