حقر

1 حَقُرَ, aor. ـُ inf. n. حَقَارَةٌ (S, A, Msb, K) and حَقْرٌ; (TA;) and حَقَرَ, aor. ـِ inf. n. حَقْرٌ and حُقْرِيَّةٌ; (K, TA;) He, or it, was, or became, contemptible, despicable, mean, paltry, abject, ignominious, base, or vile, (S, A, Msb, K,) and held of no weight or worth. (Msb.) And حَقُرَ فِى عَيْنِى, (TA,) or حُقِرَ, (so in a copy of the A,) and ↓ تحاقر, (K,) He, or it, was, or became, contemptible, despicable, mean, paltry, &c., in my eye. (K, * TA.) And إِلَيْهِ نَفْسُهُ ↓ تَحَاقَرَتْ He (lit. his spirit, or soul, or his own self,) became contemptible, &c., in his own estimation. (S, TA.) You say also, حَقْرًا لَهُ وَعَقْرًا [May he be contemptible, or despicable, and beget no children]: (A, TA:) a form of imprecation. (TA.) and حَقْرٌ نَقْرٌ [in which the latter word is an imitative sequent, or a corroborative: see حَقِيرٌ]. (TA.) And حَقِرْتَ وَنَقِرْتَ Thou hast become very contemptible, despicable, mean, paltry, &c.; syn. صِرْتَ حَقِيرًا نَقِيرًا. (K.) A2: حَقَرَهُ, (S, A, Msb, K,) aor. ـِ (Msb, K,) inf. n. حَقْرٌ; (K, TA;) and ↓ حقّرهُ, (A,) inf. n. تَحْقِيرٌ; (K;) and ↓ احتقراهُ, (S, A, Msb, K,) and ↓ استحقرهُ; (S, A, K;) He contemned, or despised, him, or it; held him, or it, to be contemptible, despicable, mean, paltry, abject, ignominious, base, or vile, (S, A, Msb, K, TA,) and of no weight or worth. (Msb.) [Hence,] مَنْ حُقِرَ حُرِمَ [He who is contemned, or despised, is prohibited, or debarred, from what is good]: a prov. (A.) 2 حقّرهُ, inf. n. تَحْقِيرٌ: see 1. b2: Also He, or it, made him to be contemned or despised, contemptible or despicable, mean, paltry, abject, ignominious, base, or vile. (TA.) b3: Also, (A, K,) inf. n. as above, (S, A, K,) said of a noun, (A,) and of speech, (K,) i. q. صَغَّرَهُ [He made it (namely, a noun,) diminutive in form: and he used the diminutive form in it; namely, speech].6 تَحَاْقَرَ see 1, in two places.8 إِحْتَقَرَ see 1.10 إِسْتَحْقَرَ see 1.

حَقْرٌ: see حَقَارَةٌ.

حُقْرَةٌ, a simple subst., Contempt. (Msb.) حُقْرِيَةٌ: see حَقَارَةٌ.

حَقِيرٌ Contemned or despised, contemptible or despicable, mean, paltry, abject, ignominious, base, or vile, (S, A, Msb,) and held of no weight or worth; (Msb;) as also ↓ حَيْقَرٌ and ↓ حَيْقُرٌ: (K, TA:) or these two signify weak: or of mean, or ignoble, origin. (K.) You say also حَقِيرٌ نَقِيرٌ, (A,) using the latter word as an imitative sequent, (S and K in art. نقر,) or as a corroborative. (TA.) حَقَارَةٌ (S, A, Msb, K) and ↓ حَقْرٌ and ↓ حُقْرِيَّةٌ, (K,) all of which are inf. ns., (TA,) and ↓ حُقَارَةٌ and ↓ حِقَارَةٌ (K) and ↓ مَحْقَرَةٌ, (S, K,) Contemptibleness, despicableness, meanness, paltriness, abjectness, ignominiousness, baseness, or vileness: (S, A, Msb, K:) [or the last rather signifies a cause of contemptibleness &c.; being similar to مَجْبَنَةٌ and مَبْخَلَةٌ &c.:] you say, ↓ هٰذَا الأَمْرُ مَحْقَرَةٌ بِكَ i. e. حَقَارَةٌ [or rather This thing is a cause of contemptibleness &c. to thee]. (S.) حُقَارَةٌ: see حَقَارَةٌ.

حِقَارَةٌ: see حَقَارَةٌ.

حَاقِرٌ act. part. n. of حَقَرَهُ, Contemning, despising, &c. (A.) You say, هُوَ حَاقِرٌ نَاقِرٌ [using the last word as an imitative sequent, or a corroborative: see حَقِيرٌ]. (A.) حَيْقَرٌ: see حَقِيرٌ.

حَيْقَرٌ: see حَقِيرٌ.

الحَاقُورَةٌ The Fourth Heaven. (K.) مَحْقَرَةٌ: see حَقَارَةٌ, in two places.

مُحَقَّرَاتٌ Small sins; syn. صَغَائِرُ: (S, K:) but this is an application proper to the law; for the [pagan] Arabs knew not صَغَائِرِ nor كَبَائِر: or, accord. to the writers on strange words, it signifies actions which a man contemns, or despises, or holds in light estimation, even if great sins. (MF.)