حفر

1 حَفَرَ, (S, A, K, &c.,) aor. ـِ (Msb, K,) inf. n. حَفْرٌ, (Mgh, Msb,) He dug, excavated, or hollowed out, the ground, or earth; (KL, PS, &c.;) he cleared out a thing, (K,) as one does the ground; (S, Msb, K;) and a well; (the Lexicons passim;) and a river; (A, Mgh;) with a مِحْفَار; (A;) or with an iron implement; (K;) and ↓ احتفر signifies the same. (S, A, K.) And حَفَرَ عَلَيْهِ, and حَفَرَهُ, and ↓ احتفرهُ, He dug for him, (namely, a lizard of the kind called ضَبّ, or a jerboa,) to fetch him forth. (A, TA.) b2: [He burrowed.] b3: (assumed tropical:) It (a torrent) furrowed a valley. (Msb.) [See also 5.] b4: (tropical:) Inivit feminam: (IAar, Msb, K:) the action being likened to that of a man digging a river. (IAar.) b5: .) b6: هٰذَا غَيْثٌ لَا يَحْفِرُهُ أَحَدٌ (tropical:) This is a rain of which no one knows the utmost extent. (K, * TA.) b7: حَفَرَ ثَرَي زَيْدٍ (tropical:) He searched into the affair, or case, of Zeyd, (A, K,) and became acquainted with it. (K.) b8: And حَفَرَ, (S, A, K,) aor. as above, (S,) and so the inf. n., (S, A,) (assumed tropical:) He, or it, emaciated, or rendered lean: (S, K:) it (a copious flow of milk, TA) emaciated a she-goat: (K, TA:) (tropical:) he (a young camel) rendered his mother flabby in flesh by much sucking. (A.) There is no pregnant animal that pregnancy does not emaciate, except the camel: (S, A:) she fattens in pregnancy. (S.) A2: حَفَرَ He (a child) shed his رَوَاضِع [or milk-teeth]. (K, TA.) [See also 4.] b2: حَفَرَتْ رَوَاضِعُ المُهْرِ, or حُفِرَتْ, (accord. to different copies of the A,) (tropical:) The milk-teeth of the colt became in a wabbling, or loose, state, previously to their falling out; because, when they have fallen out, their sockets become hollow. (A.) [See 4.]

b3: حَفَرَتِ الأَسْنَانُ, aor. ـِ (S, Mgh, Msb, K,) inf. n. حَفْرٌ; (S, Msb;) and حَفِرَت, aor. ـَ (S, Mgh, Msb, K,) inf. n. حَفَرٌ, in the dial. of BenooAsad, (S, Msb,) and this is the worse of these two forms, (S,) and حَفْرٌ; (El-Wá'ee;) and حُفِرَت; (K;) (tropical:) The teeth became affected with what is termed حَفْرٌ [q. v. infrà] or حَفَرٌ: (S, Msb, K:) or became unsound: (Mgh:) and حَفَرَ فُوهُ and حَفِرَ his teeth cankered. (A.) IDrst says, in the Expos. of the Fs, that حَفَرَ, aor. ـِ inf. n. حَفْرَ فُوهُ, is trans.; and that the cause of حَفْر of the teeth, [or the agent of the verb حَفَرَ,] is old age, or the continuance of a yellow incrustation, [or tartar,] or some kind of canker that effects them: but that the verb in the phrase حَفِرَتْ سِنُّهُ, aor. ـَ inf. n. حَفَرٌ, is intrans. (MF.) [The truth probably is, that the former verb is both trans. and intrans., and hence حُفِرَتِ الأَسْنَانُ; and that the latter is intrans. only.] b4: And حَفِرَ, aor. ـَ (assumed tropical:) It was, or became, in a bad, corrupt, or unsound, state. (Az.) 3 حافر, (A,) inf. n. مُحَافَرَةٌ, (TA,) He (a jerboa) went deep into his hole; (A;) so deep that he could not be dug out. (TA.) 4 احفر فُلَانًا بِئْرًا He assisted such a one to dig a well. (K.) A2: احفر الصَّبِىُّ, (K,) inf. n. إِحْفَارٌ, (TA,) (tropical:) The child shed his two upper and lower central incisors: (سَقَطَتْ لَهُ الثَّنِيَّتَانِ العُلْيَيَانِ وَالسُّفْلَيَانِ:) so in the K: and to these words we find added, in some copies of the K, لِلْإِثْنَآءَ وَالإِرْبَاعِ; and then, وَالمُهْرُسَقَطَتْ ثَنَايَاهُ وَرَبَاعِيَاتُهُ: but in some good and corrected copies, we read, after السفليان, thus, والمهر للاثناء والا رباع سقطت ثناياه ورباعياته: to which, in some lexicons, [as in the S, though the explanation which follows is there different,] after والارباع, is added وَالقُرُوحِ. (TA. [This is evidently the right reading; and therefore I follow it in an explanation in what is here immediately subjoined.]) b2: احفر المُهْرُ لِلْإِثْنَآءِ وَالْإِرْبَاعِ (tropical:) The colt shed his central incisors, or nippers, and each of the teeth immediately next to these: (K: see what next precedes:) or احفر المُهْرُ لِلْإِثْنَآءَ وَالْإِرْبَاعِ وَالْقُرُوحِ the colt shed his milk teeth (رَوَاضِع), [the central pair, the second pair, and the third pair, in each jaw,] and grew others: (S:) or احفر المهر, [inf. n. إِحْفَارٌ,] signifies, the colt had his milk-teeth in a wabbling, or loose, state, previously to their falling out; because, when they have fallen out, their sockets become hollow: (A:) or the colt had his lower and upper central pairs of nippers, of his milk-teeth, in a wabbling, or loose, state: this is during a period extending from thirty months, at the earliest, to three years: then the teeth fall out: then a lower and an upper central pair of nippers grow in the place of the milk-nippers which have fallen out, after three years; and the epithet مُبْدِيءٌ is applied to the colt; and the epithet ثَنِىٌّ is [also] then applied to him, and continues to be until [again it is said of him] يُحْفِرُ, meaning, he has his lower and upper pairs of nippers, of his milkteeth, in a wabbling, or loose, state: then these fall out, when he has completed four years: then the term إِبْدَآءٌ is [again] applied to him; [i. c., he is again termed مُبْدِيءٌ;] and he is, and ceases not to be, termed رَبَاعٍ, until [it is said of him]

يُحْفِرُ لِلْقٌرُوحِ [in the TA, تُحْفِر القُرُوح, which is an evident mistake,] meaning, he has his two corner nippers [in each jaw] in a wabbling, or loose, state: this is when he has completed five years: then the term إِبْدَآءٌ is applied to him as before described: then he is [also said to be]

قَارِحٌ. (TA from the “Kitáb el-Kheyl” of AO.) [See also 1.]5 تحفّر (tropical:) It (a torrent) made hollows in the ground. (A.) [See also 1.]8 إِحْتَفَرَ see 1, first and second sentences.10 اسحفر He asked, or desired, [another] to dig a well, or pit, and a rivulet, or canal. (KL.) b2: استحفر النَّهْرُ It was time for the river, or rivulet, or canal, to be dug [or cleared out]. (S.) حَفْرٌ: see حَفَرٌ, in two places; and حَفِيرٌ.

A2: Also (assumed tropical:) Emaciation, or leanness. (Kr.) [See 1.]

b2: Also, and ↓ حَفَرٌ, (Az, S, Msb, K,) the latter of the dial. of the Benoo-Asad, and the worse of the two forms, (S,) said by IKt to be a bad form, (TA,) and by ISk to be a vulgar mispronunciation, which is attributed to his not having heard the dial. of the Benoo-Asad, (Msb,) (tropical:) A scaling (سُلَاق) in the roots of the teeth: (Yaakoob, S, K:) or a rottenness, or an unsound state, of the roots of the teeth, (S, Msb,) by reason of a scaling of those parts: (Msb:) or what adheres to the teeth, externally and internally: (Az:) or an erosion of the roots of the teeth by a yellow incrustation between those parts and the gum, externally and internally, pressing upon the bone so that the latter scales away if it be not quickly removed: (Sh:) or a cankering of the teeth: (A:) or a yellowness upon the teeth: (IDrd, IKh, K:) or حَفْرٌ signifies a pimple, or small pustule, in the gum of a child. (El-Wá'ee.) [See 1: and see also حِبْرٌ.]

حَفَرٌ A well that is widened (K, TA) beyond. measure; (TA;) as also ↓ حَفْرٌ (K) and ↓ حَفِيرٌ and ↓ حَفيرَةٌ. (TA.) b2: See also حَفيرٌ. b3: The earth that is taken forth from a hollow, cavity, pit, or the like, that is dug in the ground; (S, K;) like هَدَمٌ: (S:) [see also حَفِيرَةٌ:] or what is dug, or excavated; like عَدَدٌ and خَبَطٌ and نَفَضٌ in the senses of مَعْدُودٌ and مَخْبُوطٌ and مَنْفُوضٌ: (Msb:) or a place that is dug, (Az, S, Msb,) like a moat or well; (Az, Msb;) as also ↓ حَفْرٌ: (TA:) pl. أَحْفَارٌ, (Msb, K,) and pl. pl. أَحَافِيرُ. (K.) b4: See, again, حَفِيرٌ. b5: and see حَفْرٌ.

حُفْرَةٌ What is dug, excavated, hollowed out, or cleared out, (Msb, K,) in the ground; (Msb;) [i. e. a hollow, cavity, pit, hole, trench, ditch, or furrow, dug, or excavated, in the ground: and any hollow, or cavity, in the ground, whether made by digging or (assumed tropical:) natural: a burrow:] as also ↓ حَفِيرَةٌ, (Mgh, Msb, K,) which is of the measure فَعِيلَةٌ in the sense of the measure مَفْعُولَةٌ: (Msb:) pl. of the former حُفَرٌ; (S, Msb;) and of the latter حَفَائِرُ. (Msb.) b2: See also حَفِيرٌ.

حَفِيرٌ is of the measure فَعِيلٌ in the sense of the measure مَفْعُولٌ [meaning Dug, excavated, hollowed out, or cleared out, in the ground]. (TA.) [Hence,] رَكِيَّةٌ حَفِيرَةٌ A newly-dug well; as also ↓ حَفَرٌ. (TA.) b2: See also this last word. b3: Also, (IAar, S, A, K,) and ↓ حَفِيرَةٌ and ↓ حَفْرٌ, (A,) [or ↓ حَفَرٌ, q. v., and ↓ حُفْرَةٌ, as is shown by an explanation of its pl. (حُفَرٌ) in the Ham p. 562,] A grave. (IAar, S, A, K.) حَفِيرَةٌ: see حَفَرٌ: b2: and حُفْرَةٌ: b3: and حَفِيرٌ. b4: Also What is dug out of a mine. (Mgh.) حَفَّارٌ A grave-digger. (K.) حَافرٌ, [Digging: a digger. b2: And hence,] The حافر of a beast, (دَابَّة, S, K,) i. e., of a horse, or mule, or ass; (TA;) [namely, the hoof; a solid hoof;] as though it dug the ground by reason of the vehemence of its tread upon it; (Msb;) a subst., like كَاهِلٌ and غَارِبٌ: (TA:) pl. حَوَافِرُ. (S, A, K.) b3: [Hence, by a synecdoche,] خُفٌّ وَحَافِرٌ (tropical:) Camels and horses. (Mgh in art. خف.) b4: حَافِرٌ is also applied to (tropical:) The foot of a man, (S, TA,) when it is meant to be characterized as ugly. (TA.) b5: ↓ النَّقْدُ عِنْدَ الحَافِرَةِ, (S, A, K,) and الحَافِرِ, (A, K,) is a prov., (S,) meaning, (tropical:) The payment in ready money is on the occasion of the first sentence spoken (Yaakoob, T, * S, K) by the seller, when he says “ I have sold to thee ”

[such a thing]. (T.) The origin of the saying was this: horses were the most excellent (K) and precious (TA) of the things that they possessed; and they used not to sell them on credit: a man used to say the words above to another; meaning that its hoof should not remove until he received its price: (K:) and he who says عند الحافرة (since he makes الحافر to mean the beast, الدَّابَّة, itself, and since its use in this sense is frequent without the mention of ذَات [prefixed to it],) subjoins to it the sign [ة] of the fem. gender to show that ذَاتِ الحَافِرِ is meant by this name. (TA.) Or they used to say this on the occasion of racing and betting: and the meaning is, when the horse's hoof first falls upon the dug ground [at the goal]: (Abu-l-'Abbás, Az, K:) ↓ حَافِرَةٌ, (Abu-l-'Abbás,) or حَافِرٌ, (K,) signifying dug ground; (Abu-l- 'Abbás, K; *) ground that is dug by a horse's feet; (Har p. 653;) like as one says مَآءٌ دَافِقٌ, meaning مَدْفُوقٌ. (TA.) Lth says that the saying means, when thou buyest it, thou dost not quit thy place until thou payest ready money. (TA.) This was its origin: then it came to be so often said as to be used with reference to any priority. (K.) b6: [Thus,] ↓ حَافِرَةٌ signifies (tropical:) The original state or constitution of a thing; that wherein it was created: and the returning in a thing, so that the end thereof is brought back to its beginning. (K.) It is said in the Kur [lxxix. 10], أَئِنَّا

↓ لَمَرْدُودُونَ فِى الحَافِرَةِ, i. e., (tropical:) Shall we indeed be restored to our first state? (S:) i. e., to life? (Fr:) or to the present world, as we were: (IAar:) or to our first creation, after our death. (TA.) IAar cites the following verse: عَلَى صَلَعٍ وَشَيْبٍ أَحَافِرَةً

مَعَاذَ اللّٰهِ مِنْ سَفِهٍ وَعَارِ meaning (tropical:) Shall I return to my first state, wherein I was in my youth, when I indulged in amatory conversation, and silly and youthful conduct, after hoariness, and baldness of the fore part of my head? [I beg God to preserve me from lightwittedness and shameful conduct.] (S.) One says also, ↓ رَجَعَ إِلَى حَافِرَتِهِ, (A,) and حَافِرِهِ, (TA,) (tropical:) He became old and decrepit: (A, TA:) [as though he returned to his first state; or became in a state of second childishness.] And اِلْتَقَوْا فَاقْتَتَلُوا عِنْدَ

↓ الحَافِرَةِ (S, A, K) and الحَافِرِ (A) (tropical:) They met, and fought one another at the first of their meeting. (S, K.) And ↓ فَعَلَ كَذَا عِنْدَ الحَافِرَةِ and الحَافِرِ (tropical:) He did so at the first, without delay. (TA.) And ↓ رَجَعَ عَلَى حَافِرَتِهِ (tropical:) He returned by the way by which he had come: (T, S:) or by which he had come forth. (K.) حَافِرَةٌ: see حَافِرٌ, in nine places.

مِحْفَرٌ (K) and ↓ مِحْفَارٌ (A, K) and ↓ مِحْفَرَةٌ (K) A spade; syn. مِسْحَاةٌ: (K:) an implement for digging (A, K, TA) of the same kind as a مسحاة: (TA:) pl. of the first [and last] مَحَافِرُ. (Ham p. 665.) مِحْفَرَةٌ: see what next precedes.

طُرُقٌ مُحَفَّرَةٌ [app. Roads much furrowed by the feet of beasts or men: see حَجِيجٌ]. (L and K in art. حج.) مِحْفَارٌ: see مِحْفَرٌ.

مَحْفُورٌ [i. q. حَفِيرٌ as meaning Dug: see the latter.] b2: فَمُ فُلَانٍ مَحْفُورٌ [and أَسْنَانُهُ مَحْفُورَةٌ] (tropical:) The teeth of such a one are affected with what is termed حَفْرٌ or حَفَرٌ. (S, TA.) And صَبِىٌّ مَحْفُورٌ (assumed tropical:) A child having a pimple, or small pustule, in the gum. (El-Wá'ee.) فُلَانٌ أَرْوَغُ مِنْ يَرْبُوعٍ مُحَافِرٍ Such a one is more elusive than a jerboa that goes so deep into his hole that he cannot be dug out. (A, TA.)

حجز

1 حَجَزَةُ, aor. ـُ (S, K) and حَجِزَ, (K,) inf. n. حَجْزٌ (S, K) and حِجَازَةٌ and ↓ حِجِّيزَى, (K,) [or the last is rather a quasi-inf. n. of تَحَاجَزُوا, and, accord. to some, it is of an intensive form,] He, or it, prevented, hindered, impeded, withheld, restrained, or debarred, him, or it; syn. مَنَعَهُ, (S, K,) and كَفَّهُ. (K.) It is said in a trad., وَلِأَهْلِ القَتِيلِ أَنْ يَحْجُزُوا الأَدْنَى فَالأَدْنَى And it is for the family of the slain person to prevent the nearest [in relationship] and then the nearest [after him] from retaliating the slaughter. (TA.) And one says, كَانَتْ بَيْنَ القَوْمِ رِمِّيَّا ثُمَّ صَارَتْ إِلَى

↓ حِجِّيزَى There was a shooting of arrows or the like [or a great shooting &c.] between the people; then they withheld themselves [or withheld themselves much] from each other: (S, L:) which is a prov. (TA.) It is also said in another prov., مَا يُحْجَزُ فُلَانٌ فِى العِلْمِ (tropical:) Such a one's case [with respect to knowledge or science] cannot be concealed. (A, TA.) b2: حَجَزَ بَيْنَهُمَا, (A, Msb, K,) aor. ـُ (Msb, K) and حَجِزَ, (K,) inf. n. حَجْزٌ, (Msb,) He, or it, intervened as, or made, or formed, a separation, a partition, a fence, a barrier, or an obstacle, or obstruction, between them two; he separated, or parted, them; (Msb, K;) i. e., two things; (Msb;) or two persons or things facing, or opposite to, each other. (Az, A, TA.) 2 سَطْحٌ لَمْ يُحَجَّزْ بِجِدَارٍ [A flat roof that has not been fenced round with a wall to prevent persons falling from it]. (K in art. جلح.) 3 حَاجَزُوا عَدُوَّهُمْ, (A,) inf. n. مُحَاجَزَةٌ, (S, K,) They reciprocally prevented their enemy from fighting with them, or reciprocally abstained from fighting with them, and made peace with them; syn. كَافُّوهُمْ, (A,) and syn. of the inf. n. مُمَانَعَةٌ, (S, K, TA,) and مُسَالَمَةٌ. (TA.) It is said in a prov., إِنْ أَرَدْتَ المُحَاجَزَهْ فَقَبْلَ المُنَاجَزَهْ [If thou desire the reciprocal prevention of fighting, and the making of peace, let it be before fighting]: (S, TA:) or المُحَاجَزَهْ قَبْلَ المُنَاجَزَهْ [The reciprocal prevention of fighting, and the making of peace, should be before fighting]. (A.) [See also art. نجز.]4 أَحْجَزَ see 8.6 تَحَاجَزَا They prevented one another, or mutually abstained, from fighting, [and made peace, one with another; (see also 3;)] syn. تَمَانَعَا: (S * K, TA:) said of two troops. (S.) b2: تحاجز القَوْمُ The people separated themselves, one from another; they left, forsook, or relinquished, one another; as also ↓ انحجزوا and ↓ احتجزوا. (TA.) A2: Also تحاجز القَوْمُ The people took, or took hold of, one another by the حُجَز [pl. of حُجْزَةٌ]; took hold of one another's حُجَز: (TA:) [or sought aid, or refuge and protection, one of another: see حَجْزَةٌ.]7 انحجز quasi-pass. of حَجَزَهُ in the first of the senses explained above; (TA;) He, or it, was, or became, prevented, hindered, impeded, withheld, restrained, or debarred; he withheld, or restrained, himself; he refrained, forbore, or abstained. (S, K, TA.) b2: انحجز عَنْهُ He left, forsook, or relinquished, it. (TA.) b3: See also 6.

A2: See also 8.8 احتجز بِهِ He, or it, was, or became, defended, or he defended himself, by it; syn. امْتَنَعَ. (TA.) [See also another explanation in what follows.] b2: احتجزا They two were, or became, separated, or parted, each from the other. (TA.) See also 6.

A2: احتجزهُ He carried it in his حُجْزَة: (A, K: *) like as اِحْتَضَنَهُ signifies “he carried it in his حِضْن” (A.) b2: احتجز بِإِزَارِهِ He tied his ازار upon [or around] his waist; (S, Mgh, Msb, K;) he made the two ends thereof to meet, and tied it upon his waist; (A, TA;) he wrapped it round his waist. (TA.) b3: Hence, احتجز بِالحِرَارِ وَالجِبَالِ It was encompassed by the stony tracts called حرار [pl. of حَرَّةٌ], and by the mountains. (Mgh.) A3: احتجز He, (a man, TA,) or it, (a party of people, S,) came to the province called El-Hijáz; (S, K;) as also ↓ انحجز; (ISk, S, K;) and ↓ احجز, (K,) inf. n. إِحْجَازٌ. (TA.) حَجْزٌ One who abstains from what is unlawful and indecorous. (TA.) [See also حُجْزَةٌ.]

حِجْزٌ: see حُجْزَةٌ, in two places.

حَجْزَةٌ A severe year, that confines men to their tents or houses, so that they slaughter their generous camels to eat them. (L in art. نبت, on a verse of Zuheyr.) حُجْزَةُ الإِزَارِ The place [or part] of the ازار where it is tied [round the waist]; (S, Msb, K, TA;) the place where the end of the ازار is folded, or doubled, in wrapping it round: (Lth, TA:) and [in like manner] حُجْزَةُ السَّرَاوِيلِ [the tuck, or doubled upper border, of the trousers, through which passes the waist-band, i. e., the band or string that binds them round the waist;] the part of the trousers in which is the تِكَّة [or waist-band]; (S;) the place of the تِكَّة: (K:) pl. حُجَزٌ (Msb, TA) and حُجُزَاتٌ and حُجَزَاتٌ: (TA:) and hence حُجْزَةٌ is applied to the garment called إِزَار itself; as also ↓ حِجْزٌ; of which latter the pl. is حُجُزٌ, with two dammehs, [app. contracted into حُجْزٌ,] and pl. pl. حُجُوزٌ: Z says that ↓ حِجْزٌ and حُجْزٌ signify the same. (TA.) b2: Hence, شِدَّةٌ الحُجْزَةِ (tropical:) Patience, (K, TA,) and hardiness. (TA.) One says, هَوَ شَديدُ الحُجْزَةِ (tropical:) He is patient in difficulty. (TA.) And it is said in a trad. of 'Alee, when he was asked respecting the BenooUmeiyeh, هُمْ أَشَدُّنَا حُجَزًا, or حَجْزَةً, accord. to different relations, (tropical:) They are the most patient of us in difficulty. (TA.) b3: You say also رَجُلٌ طّيِّبُ الحُجْزَةِ, (A, TA,) and كَرِيمُ الحُجْزَةِ, and كَرِيمُ الحُجْزِ, [app. a contraction of الحُجُزِ,] (TA,) (tropical:) He is one who abstains from what is unlawful and indecorous [especially with respect to women]; like طَيِّبُ الإِزَارِ. (TA.) b4: And هُوَ نَاتِىءُ الحُجْزَةِ (tropical:) He is full in the flanks: the being so is a fault. (K, TA.) b5: You also say, أَخَذَ بِحُجْزَتِهِ,, meaning (tropical:) He sought aid of him: (A, TA:) or he had recourse to him for refuge and protection. (TA.) And أَخَذَ بِحُجْزَةِ اللّٰهِ, i. e., بِسَبَبٍ مِنْهُ [meaning, (assumed tropical:) He laid hold of a means of obtaining access, or nearness, to God]: said of Mohammad, in a trad. (TA.) And هٰذَا كَلَامٌ آخِذٌ بَعْضُهُ بِحُجَزِ بَعْضٍ (tropical:) This is language disposed in regular order, consecutively. (A, TA.) It is said in a trad., إِنَّ الرَّحِمَ أَخَذَتْ بِحُجْزَةِ الرَّحمٰنِ [Verily الرَّحِمُ is connected with الرَّحْمٰن]: said to mean, that the name of الرحم is derived from الرحمن; so that it is as though it attached itself thereto, and laid hold of the middle thereof. (IAth, TA.) حِجْزَةٌ A mode, manner, or form, of tying the إِزَار. (TA.) حِجَازٌ: see حَاجِزٌ.

حَجَازَيْكَ Separate thou, or part thou, the people; (S, A, K; and T in art. دول, on the authority of IAar;) time after time: (K:) app. meaning, without intermission: (TA:) or it may mean withhold thyself. (IAar, T in art. دول.) حِجِّيزَى: see 1, in two places.

حَاجِزٌ A thing intervening, as a separation, a partition, a fence, a barrier, or an obstacle, or obstruction, between two other things, (TA,) or between two things facing, or opposite to, each other; (Az, A, TA;) as also ↓ حِجَازٌ. (Az, A, TA.) Hence the province called El-Hijáz is thus named, because it forms a separation between Nejd and the Ghowr, or Ghór; (S, Mgh, TA;) or between Nejd and the Saráh; (Msb, K;) or between the Ghowr, or Ghór, and Syria (Mgh, Msb, TA) and the Bádiyeh; (Mgh, TA;) or between Nejd and Tihámeh; (K;) or because the Hirár [or certain stony tracts] separate it from the high part of Nejd; (Az, TA;) or because it is encompassed by the Hirár and the mountains, (Mgh, Msb, *) or by the five Hirár, namely, the Harrah of Benoo-Suleym and that of Wákim and that of Leylà and that of Showrán and that of En-Nár. (As, K.) b2: Also sing. of حَجَزَةٌ, (K,) which latter signifies Wrongers, or wrongdoers, who prevent one from obtaining his right: (S:) or persons who defend men, one from another, and decide between them justly. (Az, TA.) In the K, the signification of “wrongers, or wrongdoers,” is combined with the contrary explanation given by Az. (TA.) It is said in a trad. of Keyleh, أَيْعُجِزُ ابْنُ هٰذِهِ أَنْ يَنْتَصِفَ مِنْ وَرَآءِ الحَجَزَةِ [Is the son of this woman unable to obtain his right in the absence of the wrongdoers who prevent his doing so?]: (S:) or [according to one relation] أَيُلَامُ ابْنُ ذِهْ أَنْ يَفصِلَ الخُطَّةَ مِنْ وَرَآءِ الحَجَزَة [Is the son of this woman to be blamed for deciding the affair in the absence of those who defend men, one from another, and decide between them justly?]: by “the son of this woman” she means her own son: she says, if he suffer a wrong, and allege for himself that which repels from him the wrong, [without having recourse to the judge,] he is not to be blamed. (TA.) [See also خُطَّةٌ.]

مَحْجُوزٌ Hit, or hurt, in the place [or part of the body] where the إِزَار is tied. (K.) مُحْتَجَزٌ The place [or part of the body] where the إِزِار is tied. (K.) مُحْتَجِزٌ Having his waist bound [with the إِزَار]: and with ة, a woman having her مِئْزَر bound upon [that part of her person which is termed] the عَوْرَة. (TA.)

حوز

1 حَازَهُ, (S, A, Msb,) aor. ـُ (Msb,) inf. n. حَوْزٌ and حِيَازَةٌ; (S, A, Msb, K;) as also حَازَهُ, [aor. ـِ inf. n. حَيْزٌ; (Msb;) He drew, collected, or gathered, it together; (S, A, Msb, K;) and so ↓ احتازهُ, (TA,) inf. n. اِحْتِيَازٌ; (K;) and ↓ حوّزهُ, inf. n. تَحْوِيزٌ: (TA:) he drew, collected, or gathered, it together (namely, property or wealth &c., TA) to himself; (S, A, Msb;) as also ↓ احتازهُ, (S,) and لِنَفْسِهِ ↓ احتازهُ, (A, TA,) and حَازَهُ إِلَيْهِ, and اليه ↓ احتازهُ. (TA.) You say, عَلَيْكَ بِحِيَازَةِ المَالِ Take thou to the collecting of wealth. (A, TA.) b2: حَازَهُ, aor. ـُ (TA,) inf. n. حَوْزٌ, (K, TA,) He had, held, or possessed, it; had it, or held it, in his possession; had, took, got, obtained, or acquired, possession, or occupation, of it; (AA, K, * TA; [المَلِكُ, given as an explanation of the inf. n. in the CK, is a mistake for المِلْكُ;]) he took, or received, it; he had it, or took it, to, or for, himself. (AA, TA.) [See حَوْزَةٌ, below. Hence, It comprehended, comprised, or embraced, it.] b3: حَازَ الأَرْضَ, inf. n. حَوْزٌ, He took for himself the land, and marked out its boundaries, and had an exclusive right to it. (TA: but only the inf. n. is there mentioned.) b4: حَازَ, aor. ـُ also signifies [He or] it overcame, conquered, or mastered, [a thing,] as in an instance in art. حز, voce حَزَّازٌ: (Sh, K:) [as also حَاذَ.] b5: Also, (A, TA,) inf. n. حَوْزٌ, (K,) (tropical:) He compressed a woman: (A, * K, * TA:) [as though he mastered her.] b6: حَازَ الحِمَارُ أُتُنَهُ The he-ass gained the mastery over his she-asses, and collected them together; as also حَاذَهَا. (L in art. حوذ.) b7: حَازَ الإِبِلَ, aor. ـُ (S, A, Msb,) inf. n. حَوْزٌ, (S, K,) He drove the camels gently; (S, Msb, K;) as also حَازَهَا, aor. ـِ (S, Msb,) inf. n. حَيْزٌ; (S, TA;) and ↓ حوّزها. (TA.) Also He drove the camels vehemently; (K;) and so حازها, aor. ـِ (TA in art. حيز,) inf. n. حَيْزٌ: (K in art. حيز:) thus bearing two contr. significations: (K:) [as also حَاذَهَا:] you say [also] ↓ أَحِزْهَا, [unless this be a mistranscription for حُزْهَا,] meaning, Drive thou them vehemently. (TA.) Also He drove the camels to water; (A;) and so ↓ حوّزها; (S, A;) [and حَاذَهَا:] or ↓ حوّزها, (As, S, K,) inf. n. تَحْوِيزٌ, (K,) signifies he drove them during the first night to water, (As, S, K,) it being distant from the pasture: (As, S:) because in that night they are driven gently. (TA.) [See also حَوْزٌ, below.] b8: حَازَ الشَّىْءَ He removed the thing from its place; put it away; placed it at a distance. (Sh, TA.2 حوّزهُ: see 1, first sentence: b2: and حوّز: الإِبِلَ: see 1, in three places.4 أَحِزِ الإِبِلَ: see 1.5 تحوّز He, or it, writhed, or twisted, about, (K, TA,) and turned over and over; (TA;) as also ↓ تحيّز: (K:) or was restless, or unquiet, not remaining still, upon the ground. (Lth, TA.) You say, تحوّزت الحَيَّةُ, and ↓ تحيزّت, The serpent writhed, or twisted, about. (Both in the S; and the latter in the K in art. حيز.) And مَا لَكَ تَتَحَوَّزُ تَحَوُّزَ الحَيَّةِ, and تَحَيُّزَ الحَيَّةِ ↓ تَتَحَيَّزُ, Wherefore dost thou writhe about like the writhing about of the serpent? the latter verb, accord. to Sb, is of the measure تَفَيْعَلَ, from حُزْتُ الشَّىْءَ. (S.) b2: He removed, withdrew, or retired to a distance, (A'Obeyd, S, K,) and drew back, (S,) عَنْهُ [or مِنْهُ] from him or it; (TA;) as also ↓ تحيّز; (A'Obeyd, S;) and ↓ انحاز. (A.) Yousay, دَخَلَ عَلَيْهِ فَمَا تَحَوَّزَ لَهُ عَنْ فِرَاشِهِ He went in to him and he did not move for him from his bed, or mattress. (TK.) And El-Katámee says, (S, TA,) describing an old woman of whom he sought hospitality, and who eluded him, (TA,) مِنِّى خَشْيَةً أَنْ أَضِيفَهَا ↓ تَحَيَّزُ الأَفْعَى مَخَافَةَ ضَارِبِ ↓ كَمَا انْحَازَتِ She (this old woman) retires and draws back from me for fear of my alighting at her abode as a guest [like as the viper turns away in fear of a beater]: or, as some relate the verse, تَحَوَّزُ. (S.) b3: He tarried, or loitered: he was slow in rising; as also تحوّس: he desired to rise, and it was tedious to him to do so; as also ↓ تحيّز. (TA.) AA says, تَحَوَّزَ تَحَوُّزَ الحَيَّةِ, [as though meaning, He was slow in rising like as the rising of the serpent is slow: for he adds,] and it is slow in rising when it desires to rise. (S.) 6 تحاوز الفَرِيقَانِ The two parties, or divisions, turned away, each from the other, (S, K,) in war or battle. (S.) 7 إِنْحَوَزَانحاز القَوْمُ The company of men left their appointed station, (S, K, TA,) and place of fighting, (TA,) and turned away to another place. (S, * K, * TA.) You say also, انحاز عَنْهُ He turned away from him: (S, K:) and انحاز إِلَيْهِ he turned to, or towards, him; and he joined himself to him. (Har pp. 122 and 326.) You say of friends, انحازو عَنِ العَدُوِّ, and حَاصُوا; [They turned away from the enemy;] and of enemies, اِنْهَزَمُوا, and وَلَّوْ مُدْبِرِينَ. (S, TA.) Or انحاز signifies He separated himself from others that he might be with those who were fighting. (Aboo-Is-hák, TA.) And انحاز الرَّحُلُ إِلَى القَوْمِ signifies the same as إِلَيْهِمْ ↓ تحيّز [The man turned, removed, withdrew, or retired, or he joined himself, to the company of men]. (Msb.) See 5, in two places. b2: انحاز عَلَى الشَّىْءِ [for عن, in the TA, I have substituted على, as the former is apparently a mistranscription] He drew himself together, and fell to the thing; expl. by ضَمَّ بَعْضَهُ عَلَى بَعْضٍ

وَأَكَبَّ عَلَيْهِ. (TA.) 8 احتازهُ: see حَازَهُ, in four places, first sentence. Q. Q. 2 تَحَيَّزَ, [originally تَحَيْوزَ,] of the measure تَفَيْعَلَ, (Sb, S, TA,) [from حَيِّزٌ, originally حَيْوِزٌ,] He turned aside to a حَيِّز [or place, &c.]. (Mgh.) You say also تحيّز المَالُ [The property, or the camels or the like,] became drawn, collected, or gathered, together; or drew, collected, or gathered, themselves together; to a حَيِّز. (Msb.) b2: See also 5, throughout; and see 7.

حَوْزٌ inf. n. of 1 [q. v.]. b2: فِى حَوْزِهِ: see حَوْزَةٌ.

A2: A place of which a man takes possession, (TA,) and around which a dam (مُسَنَّاةٌ) is made: (K, TA:) pl. أَحْوَازٌ. (TA.) b2: حَوْزُ الدَّارِ: see حَيِّزٌ.

A3: لَيْلَةُ الحَوْزِ The first night during which camels repair towards the water (As, S, K) when it is distant from the pasture: (As, S:) because they are driven gently that night: but when their faces are turned towards the water and they are left to pasture that night, the night is called لَيْلَةُ الطَّلَقِ. (TA.) One says to a man, when he holds back respecting an affair, دَعْنِى مِنْ حَوْزِكَ وَطَلَقِكَ (assumed tropical:) [Let me alone and cease from this and that discursion of thine]. (TA.) And one says also, طَوَّلَ عَلَيْنَا فُلَانٌ بِالْحَوْزِ وَالطَّلَقِ قَبْلَ القَرَبِ (assumed tropical:) [Such a one was prolix, or tedious, to us with this and that discursion before coming to the point]. (TA.) b2: حَوْزٌ is also used as an epithet; though properly an inf. n.: you say, سَوْقٌ حَوْزٌ [A gentle driving: or a vehement driving]. (TA.) حَوْزَةٌ i. q. حَيِّزٌ, as pointed out in two places below. (S, Msb, &c.) b2: [Hence,] (assumed tropical:) A thing that is in one's possession or occupation; a thing that is one's property: so in the saying of a certain woman, وَأَحْمِى حَوْزَةَ الغَائِبِ (assumed tropical:) And I guard from encroachment the property of the absent: meaning her فَرْج, which was the property of her husband by the marriage-contract: whence it appears that, if this saying be the only ground upon which Az has asserted that one of the significations of حَوْزَةٌ is the فَرْج of a woman, [as is also said in the K,] his assertion requires consideration; for a woman's فرج is her own when she has no husband; and when she is married, it is her husband's property. (L, TA.) You say also, صَارَفِى حَوْزَتِهِ, and ↓ فِى حَوْزِهِ, [and ↓ فى حَيِّزِهِ,] It became in his possession, or occupation. (L, TA.) And فُلَانٌ مَانِعٌ حَوْزَتَهُ (assumed tropical:) Such a one defends, or guards, from encroachment, or invasion, or attack, what is in his حَيِّز [or place; meaning, in his possession or occupation]. (TA.) In like manner, a poet says, حَمَى حَوْزَاتِهِ فَتُرِكْنَ قَفْرًا He guarded from encroachment his tracts of pasture-land [so that they were left deserted]. (Fr, TA.) And it is said in a trad., فَحَمَى حَوْزَةً

الإِسْلَامِ (tropical:) And he defended, or protected, or guarded, from encroachment, or invasion, or attack, the limits, [meaning, what the limits comprised, i. e., the territory,] and the tracts, or regions, of El-Islám [meaning, of the Muslims]. (TA.) حَوْزَةُ المُلْكِ signifies [in like manner]

بَيْضَتُهُ [i. e. (assumed tropical:) The seat of regal power: or the heart, or principal part, of the kingdom]. (S, K.) b3: (assumed tropical:) Nature; or natural disposition, temper, or other quality or property; (K, TA;) whether good or evil. (TA.) حَيِّزٌ, (S, Mgh, Msb,) of the measure فَيْعِلٌ, (Mgh, Msb,) from الحَوْزُ, (S, * Mgh,) as signifying “ the drawing, collecting, or gathering, together,” (Mgh,) originally حَيْوِزٌ, (TA,) and also contracted into حَيْزٌ, (S, Msb, TA,) like هَيِّنٌ and هَيْنٌ, and لَيِّنٌ and لَيْنٌ; (S, TA;) [The continent, or container, or receptacle, of anything; like بَيْضَةٌ; as also ↓ حَوْزَةٌ, q. v.:] any place in which a thing is: (Mgh:) in scholastic theology, the imaginary portion of space occupied by a thing having extent, as a body; or by a thing not having extent, as an indivisible atom: in philosophy, the inner surface of a container, which is contiguous [in every part] to the outer surface of the thing contained: and [hence,] الحَيِّزُ الطَبِيعِىُّ [the proper natural place of a thing;] that in which the nature of a thing requires it to be. (KT.) b2: A quarter, tract, region, or place, considered relatively, or as part of a whole; or a part, or portion, of a place; syn. نَاحِيَةٌ; (S, Mgh, Msb;) as also ↓ حَوْزَةٌ: (S, Msb, K:) so the authors on practical law mean by حَيِّزٌ; such, for instance, as a room, or an apartment, of a house: (Mgh:) pl. أَحْيَازٌ, (S, Msb, TA,) which is extr., (TA,) being from the contracted form [حَيْزٌ]: (Msb:) by rule it should be أَحْوَازٌ, (Az, Msb, TA,) like أَمْوَاتٌ, pl. of مَيِّتٌ [and مَيْتٌ]: (Az, TA:) or by rule [if from the uncontracted form حَيِّزٌ] it should be حَيَائِزُ, with hemz, accord. to Sb; or حَيَاوِزُ, with و, accord. to Abu-l-Hasan. (TA.) حَيِّزُ الدَّارِ, (S, Msb, TA,) as also الدّارِ ↓ حَوْزُ, (TA,) signifies What is annexed to the house, (S, TA,) or appertains thereto, (Msb,) of the مَرَافِق (S, Msb, TA) and مَنَافِع (TA) and نَوَاحٍ; (Msb;) [i. e., of the conveniences thereof, such as the privy and the kitchen and the like, and other parts or apartments;] such are termed collectively أَحْيَازُ الدَّارِ; (Msb;) and each part or apartment (نَاحِيَة), by itself, is termed حَيِّزٌ. (TA.) b3: [Hence the saying,] أَنَا فِى حَيِّزِهِ وَكَنَفِهِ (tropical:) [I am in his quarter and protection]. (A, TA.) b4: [And hence also the saying,] فِى حَيِّزِ التَّوَاتِرُ (tropical:) In the manner, and place, of [that kind of transmission which is termed] التواتر [which is “ transmission by such a number of persons as cannot be supposed to have agreed to a falsehood: ” as explained in the Mz, 3rd نوع]. (Mgh.) b5: And صَارَ فِى حَيِّزِهِ: see حَوْزَةٌ. b6: [And عَلَى حَيِّزِهِ By himself or itself.]

الإِثْمُ حَوَّازُ القُلُوبِ: see حَزَّازُ, in art. حز.

أَوْ مُتَحَيِّزًا إِلَى فِئَةٍ, in the Kur [viii. 16], signifies Or turning aside to a different company of the Muslims: (Mgh, Msb: *) or the meaning is, or separating themselves from others to betake themselves to [a different company of] those engaged in fighting. (Aboo-Is-hák, TA.) The original form of مُتَحَيِّزٌ is مُتَحَيْوِزٌ. (TA.) قِطْعَةٌ مِنَ الأَرْضِ مُسْتَحِيزَةٌ [A portion of the earth, or of land, comprehended within certain limits]. (M and K in art. بلد.)

حيس

1 حَاسَ, aor. ـِ inf. n. حَيْسٌ, He mixed [a thing or things]. (S, A, K; but in this sense, only the inf. n. is mentioned.) b2: He made, or prepared, what is called حَيْس: (S, Msb, K:) and ↓ حيّس, inf. n. تَحْيِيسٌ, he mixed and prepared what is so called. (TA.) 2 حَيَّسَ see above.

حَيْسٌ, originally an inf. n., (Msb,) Dates mixed with clarified butter and [the preparation of dried curd called] أَقِط, (S, A, Mgh, K,) and kneaded (A, K) vehemently, (A,) or rubbed and pressed with the hand until they mingle together, (Mgh,) whereupon their stones come forth; (K;) and sometimes سَوِيق [or meal of parched barley or wheat] is put into it; (A, K;) and a little crumbled bread instead of the اقط: (TA:) or dates, of the kind called بَرْنِىّ, and اقط, bruised together, and kneaded vehemently with clarified butter until the stones come forth from it one by one, and then made like ثَرِيد: it is the same as وَطْبَةٌ, except that حيس sometimes has سويق put in it, but وطبة has not: (L:) or dates of which the stones have been taken out, bruised with اقط, and then kneaded, and rubbed and pressed with the hand until the whole becomes like ثريد; and sometimes سويق is put with it: (Msb:) accord. to Ibn-Waddáh El-Andalusee, dates of which the stones have been taken out, mixed with سويق; but this is not known, (MF, TA,) because of the deficiency of the ingredients: (TA:) Hr is related to have described it as a ثَرِيدَة composed of أَخْلَاط [or various mixtures]. (TA.) A rájiz says, اَلتَّمْرُ وَالسَّمْنُ مَعًاثّمَّ الأَقِطْ اَلْحَيْسُ إِلَّا أَنَّهُ لَمْ يَخْتَلِطْ [Dates and clarified butter together, then اقط, are حيس, except that it is not yet mixed]: (S, MF, TA:) from which it might be understood, that these components, when mixed, are not حيس: but this is the contrary of what is meant: (MF:) the meaning seems to be, that these three things, when brought, are virtually حيس, as being the materials thereof, though not mixed. (TA.)

حبش

1 حَبَشَ لَهُ, (K,) aor. ـُ (TK,) inf. n. حَبْشٌ and حُبَاشَةٌ; (K, TK;) or حَبَشَ لَهُ حُبَاشَةً; (S;) [whence it appears probable that the author of the K is in error in regarding حُبَاشَةٌ as an inf. n.;] He collected for him something; as also ↓ حَبَّشَ, inf. n. تَحْبِيشٌ: (S, K:) and ↓ تحبّشهُ and ↓ احتبشهُ likewise signify he collected it. (TA.) You say also, قَوْمَهُ ↓ حَبَّشَ, inf. n. تَحْبِيشٌ, He collected his people. (S.) And حَبَشَ لِعِيَالِهِ, inf. n. حَبْشٌ, He gained, or earned, and collected, for his family, or household; like هَبَشَ; as also ↓ احتبش. (TA.) 2 حَبَّشَ see 1, in two places.4 احبشت بِوَلَدِهَا She brought forth her child like an Abyssinian (حَبَشِىّ) in colour. (S.) 5 تحبّشوا They collected themselves together, (S, * A, TA,) عَلَيْهِ against him; as also تهبّشوا. (TA.) A2: تحبّشهُ: see 1.8 إِحْتَبَشَ see 1, in two places.

الحُبْشُ: see the next paragraph.

الحَبَشُ, (S, A, Msb, K,) a coll. gen. n., (Msb,) and ↓ الحُبْشُ, (A, MF,) or this is a pl., and the former is also said to be an anomalous pl., (TA,) and ↓ الحَبَشَةُ, (S, A, Msb, K,) also said to be an anomalous pl., (TA,) and wrong with respect to rule, (T, M,) having no sing. of the measure فَاعِلٌ, (M,) for they did not use حَابِشٌ as a sing. thereof, like فَاسِقٌ as sing. of فَسَقَةٌ, (T,) but الحَبَشَةُ became used as a dial. var., (T, Msb,) commonly obtaining, for الحَبَشُ, (Msb,) and is allowable in poetry in cases of necessity, (T,) and ↓ الأَحْبُشُ, (IDrd, K,) also used as syn. with الحَبَشُ, (IDrd,) or it is pl. of الحُبْشُ, with damm, not a sing. as it seems to be from the mention of it in the K, (MF,) and ↓ الأُحْبُوشُ, (A, TA,) and الحُبْشَانُ, (A,) which is a pl. (IDrd, S, K) of الحَبَشُ, (IDrd,) like as حُمْلَانٌ is pl. of حَمَلٌ, (S,) and الحُبُوشُ, (A,) [also a pl.,] and ↓ الحَبِيشُ, which is also a pl., (TA,) [or rather a quasipl. n.,] and الأَحَابِشُ, which is likewise a pl., (K,) app. of أَحْبُشٌ, (TA,) and الأَحَابِيشُ, (A,) [which is pl. of أُحْبُوشٌ,] A certain race of the blacks; (S, A, Msb, K, &c.;) [namely, the Abyssinians; who, however, are not properly called “ blacks: ”] one of whom is called حَبَشِىٌّ. (A, Mgh, Msb.) The dim. of حَبَشٌ is حُبَيْشٌ. (Msb.) الحَبَشَةُ: see الحَبَشُ. b2: It also signifies The country of the حُبْشَان [or Abyssinians]: (K:) a proper name applied thereto. (TA.) حُبْشِىٌّ: fem. with ة. For the latter, see حَبَشِىٌّ.

ّحَبَشِىُّ a rel. n. from الحَبَشَةُ; (TA;) [signifying Of, or belonging to, or relating to, Abyssinia or the Abyssinians.] b2: [An Abyssinian;] one of the race called الحَبَش. (A, Mgh, Msb.) b3: حَبَشِيَّةٌ (K) and ↓ حُبْشِيَّةٌ (A, K) A black, (A,) or an intensely black, (K,) she-camel. (A, K.) b4: الحَبَشِىُّ مِنَ النَّمْلِ The black ant. (M in art. دلم.) الحَبِيشُ: see الحَبَشُ.

حُبَيْشٌ dim. of حَبَشٌ, q. v. (Msb.) b2: Also A certain well-known bird; [the Numidia; which comprises the species commonly called the Guineahen, and pintado: so applied in the present day:] the word is thus, [without the article ال, apparently as a proper name, and] in the dim. form, like كُمَيْتٌ and كُعَيْتٌ: (S, TA:) it is strangely omitted in the K. (TA.) حُبَاشَةٌ What is collected, (S, * and TA in art. هبش,) of men, and of property; as also هُبَاشَةٌ: (TA ubi suprà:) pl. حُبَاشَاتٌ. (S, and TA ubi suprà.) b2: A company, or body, of men, not of one tribe; (S, K;) like هُبَاشَةٌ; (TA;) as also ↓ أُحْبُوشٌ and أَحَابِيشُ; (S;) or as also ↓ أُحْبُوشَةٌ, (K, TA,) of which the pl. is أَحَابِيشُ; (TA:) the pl. of حباشة in this sense is as above. (TA.) الأَحْبُشُ: see الحَبَشُ.

الأُحْبُوشُ: see الحَبَشُ. b2: أُحْبُوشٌ: see حُبَاشَةٌ: accord. to some, it signifies Any company, or body, of men; because, when they are collected together, they are [in their general hue] black. (TA.) أُحْبُوشَةٌ: see حُبَاشَةٌ.

حفش

حَفْشٌ: see what follows.

حِفْشٌ A receptacle for spindles: (S, K:) a سَفَط [or receptacle woven of palm-leaves, in which are stowed perfumes and similar things, of the apparatus of women]; (K; [in the CK, السًّقَطُ is erroneously put for السَّفَطُ;]) a سَفَط in which perfumes are kept: (TA:) a دُرْج, (K,) i. e. a small receptacle of the kind called سَفَط, in which a woman keeps her perfumes and apparatus, or implements; (TA in art. درج;) a woman's دُرْج: (Mgh:) pl. as below. (TA.) b2: (tropical:) A small بَيْت [or tent]; (A'Obeyd, S, Mgh;) as being likened to a woman's دُرْج: (Mgh:) or a very small بَيْت [or tent], (K, TA,) having a low roof; so called because of its narrowness; and accord. to some, ↓ حَفْشٌ, and ↓ حَفَشٌ: (TA:) or a very small بيت of [goats'] hair, (K, TA,) of the بُيُوت [or tents] of the Arabs of the desert: so says Kh: pl. as below. (TA.) It is said in a trad., دَخَلَتْ حِفْشًا, meaning (assumed tropical:) She entered a small بيت [or tent]. (Mgh.) And in another trad., هَلَّا قَعَدَ فِى حِفْشِ

أُمِّهِ, (S,) or هلَا جَلَسَ الخ, (Mgh,) i. e. (assumed tropical:) [Wherefore did he not sit] in the small بيت of his mother? (S, Mgh:) or, accord. to some, the meaning is, عِنْدَ حِفْشِ أُمِّهِ [i. e., by the receptacle for the spindles, &c., of his mother]: (S:) or, as some say, by the فَرْج of his mother; for (TA) b3: It also signifies (assumed tropical:) The فَرْج [pudendum muliebre]. (K.) b4: And Any vessels that are held in little account, (Lth, K, TA,) that are used as receptacles in the house, or tent, for perfumes and the like, (Lth, TA,) such as glass flasks, or bottles, &c.: (Lth, K, TA:) and an old and worn-out thing, (K, TA,) that is of no use: (TA:) and a large, old and worn-out, sack (K, TA) of [goats'] hair: (TA:) pl. (in all the senses of the word, TA) أَحْفَاشٌ (K, TA) and حَفَاشٌ: (TA:) or أَحْفَاشُ البَيْتِ means the furniture and utensils of the house or tent; and the paltry articles thereof, or such as are held in little account. (Aboo-Sinán, K.) b5: And أَحْفَاشُ الأَرْضِ means The [lizards called] ضِبَاب, and the hedgehogs, (K, TA,) and the jerboas, (TA,) of the earth: (K, TA:) not the same as أَحْنَاش: so says Aboo-Ziyád. (TA.) حَفَشٌ: see above.

حمص

حِمَّصٌ and حِمٍّصٌ; (S, Msb, K;) the former preferred by Th, (S, TA,) and by the Koofees, (Msb, TA,) and the only word of that form except قِنَّفٌ and قلَّفٌ and قِنِّبٌ and خِنَّبٌ; (Fr, TA;) the latter alone allowed by Mbr, (S,) and this alone mentioned by Sb, (TA,) and preferred by the Basrees, (Msb, TA,) and said by Mbr to be the only word of this form except حِلِّزٌ, meaning “ short,” and جِلِّقٌ, the name of a place in Syria, (S, TA,) but IAar did not know this latter form of the word; (Az, TA;) [The cicer arietinum; or chick-peas;] a certain grain, (S, Msb, K,) well known, (Msb, K,) of the description termed القَطَانِ: (AHn:) n. un. حِمَّصَةٌ and حِمِّصَةٌ: (TA:) it is white, and red, and black, and of a sort called كِرْسِنِىٌّ [or كَرْسَنِىٌّ?]; and is also wild, and cultivated in gardens: the wild sort is the hotter, and the more contracted; the nutriment of the garden-sort is the better; and the black is the most powerful in its operations: (the Minháj, TA:) it is flatulent, lenitive, diuretic, having the property of increasing the seminal fluid and the carnal appetite and the blood: (K:) Hippocrates says that it has in it two substances, which quit it by cooking; one of them salt, or saline, which is lenitive; and the other sweet, which is diuretic; and it clears away spots in the skin, and beautifies the complexion, and is beneficial for hot tumours, and its oil is serviceable for the ringworm, or tetter; and its meal, for the fluid of foul ulcers; and the infusion thereof, for toothache, and for swelling of the lip; and it clears the voice: (TA:) it also strengthens the body and the penis; (K;) wherefore it is given as fodder to the stallions of horses and the like, and of camels; (TA;) on the condition of its being eaten not before [other] food nor after it, but in the midst thereof; (K;) or, correctly, as in the Minháj, it should be eaten between two meals. (TA.)

حمض

1 حَمُضَ, aor. ـُ and حَمَضَ, (S, A, Msb, K,) aor. ـُ (S,) or ـَ (K,) or both; (TA;) and حَمِضَ, aor. ـَ (K;) inf. n. [of the first] حُمُوضَةٌ (S, Msb, K) and [of the second or third] حَمْضٌ, (as in some copies of the S and of the K,) or حَمَضٌ; (as in other copies of the S and of the K;) said of a thing, (S, A, Msb,) or the third is said particularly of milk, (K,) It was, or became, حَامِض [i. e. acid, sour, sharp or biting to the taste, pungent, or in taste like vinegar or like sour milk: see حُمُوضةٌ below]; (S, Msb, K;) as also ↓ حمّض, inf. n. تَحْمِيضٌ. (TA.) You say, جَآءَنَا بِإِدْلَةٍ مَا تُطاقُ حَمْضًا, or حَمضًا, (accord. to different copies of the S,) He brought us some thick and very sour milk, not to be endured by reason of sourness. (S.) A2: [Hence, or from حَمْضٌ, q. v. infrà,] حَمَضَتِ الإِبِلُ, (As, S, A, K,) aor. ـُ (As, S TA,) inf. n. حُمُوضٌ (As, S, K) and حَمْضٌ; (K;) and ↓ احمضت; (A, TS, K;) The camels pastured upon حَمْض [q. v.]; (As, S, A;) or ate it. (K.) b2: [And hence, because camels become weary of eating حَمْض,] حَمَضْتُ عَنْهُ (assumed tropical:) I disliked him, or it. (Sgh, K.) b3: And [because camels are eager for حَمْض after eating long of خُلَّة,] حَمَضْتُ بِهِ (assumed tropical:) I eagerly desired him, or it. (Sgh, K.) 2 حمّض, inf. n. تَحْمِيضٌ: see 1, first signification.

A2: [It seems to be also syn. with تحمّض, q. v.: for, b2: ] said of a man, it signifies أَتَى

المَرْأَةَ فِى دُبُرِهَا, as though he shifted from the better of the two places to the worse thereof, by reason of preposterous desire: (TA:) as also ↓ احمض: opposed to أَخَلَّ [q. v.]. (TA in art. خل.) b3: تَحْمِيضٌ also signifies (assumed tropical:) تَفْخِيذٌ (S, TA) in جِمَاع. (TA.) b4: Also (assumed tropical:) The giving, or doing, little of a thing. (S, K.) You say, حَمَّضَ لَنَا فُلَانٌ فِى القِرَى (assumed tropical:) Such a one gave, or did, little to us in entertaining. (S.) A3: حَمَّضْتُ الإِبِلَ: see 4. b2: حمّضهُ عَنْهُ: see 4.4 احمضت الأَرْضُ The land became abundant in حَمْض [q. v.]. (S.) b2: احمض القَوْمُ The people, or company of men, lighted on, or found, حَمْض. (TA.) b3: احمضت الإِبِلُ i. q. حَمَضَت, q. v. (A, TS, K.) b4: [And hence,] احمض القَوْمُ (tropical:) The people, or company of men, launched into, or entered upon, cheering discourse. (A, TA.) I'Ab used to say to his companions, أَحْمِضُوا (tropical:) [Launch ye forth, or enter upon, cheering discourse]; (A, TA;) whereupon they would begin to recite poetry, and to relate the memorable conflicts of the Arabs; (A;) because they then entered into traditions and stories of the Arabs, being weary of the interpretation of the Kur-án, [like camels betaking themselves to the pasture termed حَيْض when weary of that termed خُلَّة.] (TA.) [and in like manner,] إِحْمَاضٌ also means (assumed tropical:) The changing from seriousness to jesting or joking. (Har p. 10.) b5: See also 2. [And see 5.]

A2: احمضتُ الإِبِلَ; (S, K;) or ↓ حَمَّضْتُهَا, inf. n. تَحْمِيضٌ; (ISk;) I pastured the camels upon حَمْض. (ISk, S K.) b2: [And hence, as camels are pastured upon حَمْض after they have pastured for a time upon خُلَّة,] احمضهُ عَنْهُ, and ↓ حمّضهُ, (tropical:) He shifted him from it [to another thing]. (TA.) 5 تحمّض [app. signifies, in its primary acceptation, He (a camel) betook himself to the pasture termed حَمْض after eating for a time of that termed خُلَّة. (See also 1 and 4 and 2.) b2: and hence,] (tropical:) He shifted from one thing to another thing. (TA.) b3: [Hence also,] one says to a man when he comes threatening, أَنْتَ مُخْتَلَّ فَتَحَمَّضْ (tropical:) [Thou art disordered in temper, therefore sooth thyself]: (S, A:) from خُلَّةٌ and حَمْضٌ. (S.) [See also خُلِّىٌّ, in art. خل.]

حَمْضٌ [a coll. gen. n.] A kind of plant in which is saltness, (A, Msb,) which camels eat as though it were fruit, and after which they drink: (A:) other plants are termed خُلَّة: (Msb:) or what is salt and bitter, of plants; (S, K;) such as the رِمْث and the أَثْل and the طَرْفَآء and the like: (S:) what is sweet is called خُلَّة: (S, K:) or any kind of plant that is salt, or sour, rising upon [several] stems, and having no [single] أَصْل [or stock]: (M [as cited in the L, but I doubt whether the passage be correctly transcribed]:) or any salt, or sour, kind of trees; having a juicy and quivering leaf, which, when squeezed, bursts forth with water; and having a pungent, or strong, odour; that cleanses the garment and the hand when they are washed with it; such as the نَجِيل and the خذْرَاف and the إِخْرِيط and the رِمْث and the قِضَة and the قُلَّام and the هَرْم and the حُرْض and the رُغل and the طَرْفَآء and the like: (Lh:) or any plant that does not dry up in the رَبِيع [or spring], but endures the hot season, having in it saltness; when camels eat it, they drink upon it; and when they do not find it, they become thin and weak: (Lth, T:) the Arabs say that the خُلَّة is the bread of camels, and the حَمْض is their fruit, (S, A, Msb, K, *) or, as some say, their flesh-meat; (S;) or their خَبِيص: (TA in art. خل:) and they say that flesh-meat is the حَمْض of men: (TA:) the n. un. is with ة: (Mgh:) and the pl. is حُمُوضٌ. (S, K.) [In Isaiah xxx. 24, the word rendered “ clean ”

in our authorized version is thought by some to mean “ salt ” or “ sour. ”] b2: Hence the saying, جَاؤُوا مُخِلِّينَ فَلَاقَوْا حَمْضَا (tropical:) They came eagerly desiring evil, or mischief, and found him who cured them of that which affected them: which is like the saying of Ru-beh, وَنُورِدُ المُسْتَوْرِدِينَ حَمْضَا (tropical:) And him who cometh to us seeking to do evil, or mischief, we cure of his disease: for camels, when they are satiated with خُلَّة, eagerly desire حَمْض [to cure them of the effect of the former]. (TA. [See also خُلِّىٌّ, in art. خل.]) b3: Hence, also, by way of comparison, حَمْض is applied to (tropical:) Evil, and war: and خُلَّة, to ease, or repose; freedom from trouble or inconvenience, and toil or fatigue; or tranquillity; and ampleness of circumstances: (T and TA in art. خل:) and the former, to death: and the latter, to life. (Ham p. 315.) b4: فُؤَادٌ حَمْضٌ and نَفْسٌ حَمْضةٌ mean (assumed tropical:) A mind that takes fright at a thing, and shrinks from it, at first hearing it. (TA.) حَمْضَةٌ (assumed tropical:) Eager desire for a thing. (S, K.) It is said in a trad., الأُذُنُ مَجَّاجَةٌ وَلِلنَّفْسِ حَمْضةٌ; (S, TA;) and in another, لِلْأُذُنِ مَجَّةٌ وللنفس حمضة; (TA;) [both meaning the same;] (assumed tropical:) The ear is wont to reject what it hears, not retaining it, when one is exhorted to do a thing, or forbidden to do it, while the mind has eager desire to hear: (IAth:) or the ear retains not all that that it hears, while having eager desire for what it deems elegant, of extraordinary matters of discourse and speech. (Az.) This usage of the word is taken from the eager desire of camels for حَمْض when they have become weary of خُلَّة. (S.) بَعِيرٌ حَمْضِىٌّ, and إِبِلٌ حَمْضِيَّةٌ and حَمَضِيَّةٌ: see حَامِضٌ: b2: and أَرْضٌ حَمْضِيَّةٌ: see حَمِيضةٌ.

حُمُوضةٌ [Acidity; sourness; the quality of being sharp or biting to the taste; pungency;] the taste of that which is termed حَامِض. (S, K.) [See 1.] الحُمُوضةُ is also explained as signifying That which bites the tongue; as the taste of vinegar, and of milk such as is termed حَازِر: which is extr., [if it be meant thereby that the word is thus used as an epithet to qualify a subst., or as an epithet in which the quality of a subst. is predominant, but I rather think that it is a loose way of explaining it as an inf. n. used as a simple subst.,] for [the measure] فُعُولَةٌ does not belong [save] to inf. ns. (TA: [in which the word إِلَّا is evidently omitted by an oversight in transcription, and therefore has been supplied by me in rendering the passage.]) أَرْضٌ حَمِيضَةٌ Land abounding with حَمْض; (ISh, K;) as also ↓ ارض مُحْمِضَةٌ; (S;) and ↓ ارض حَمْضِيَّةٌ: (TA:) pl. of the first, أَرَضُونَ حُمُضٌ, (as in some copies of the K,) or حُمْضٌ: (as in other copies of the same, and in the TA:) and حُمُوضٌ [which seems to be another pl. of the first of these epithets] is explained as signifying land possessing حَمْض. (TA.) حُمَّاضٌ [Sorrel; or particularly the rose-flowered sorrel; more commonly called in the present day حُمَّيْض;] a certain plant having a red flower; (S;) a herb, or leguminous plant, of the kind termed ذُكُور, having a produce, or fruit, red like blood; (Ham p. 823;) a certain herb (K, TA) growing in the mountains, of herbs of the [season called] رَبِيع, (TA,) the leaves of which are like those of the هِنْدِبَآء, (K, TA,) large and broad; (TA;) it is acid, (K, TA,) intensely so; its flower is red, and its leaves are green: (TA: [in which is here added ويتناوس فى ثمره مثل حبّ الرمّان, app. for وَيَتَنَوَّسُ الخ; meaning that it waves much to and fro when blown by the wind, and describing its fruit as containing what resemble the grains of the pomegranate:]) it is pleasant to the taste; (K, TA;) and is eaten by men, but in small quantity: AHn and Aboo-Ziyád say, it grows very tall, and has a wide leaf, and a red flower, which, when it is near to drying up, becomes white: and Aboo-Ziyád says, in our mountain-country it is abundant; and is of two species; one of these two is acid, [but] pleasant to the taste; (TA;) and one species thereof is bitter; (K, TA;) in the lower parts of each, when they are full grown, is a redness; and the seeds and leaves of the acid species are used medicinally: Az says, it is a wild herb, or leguminous plant, that grows in the days of the [season called] رَبِيع, in the channels of water, and has a red flower, and is of the herbs, or leguminous plants, which are termed ذُكُور: IB says, the places of its growth are the small channels of water, and the places to which valleys take their courses; and in it is acidity: sometimes, also, the people of settled habitations make it to grow in their gardens, and water it and sustain it so that it does not dry up in the time when the wild herbs, or leguminous plants, dry up: it is also said in the Minháj that it is both wild and growing in gardens; that the wild is called سلق, [but this name is commonly applied to bete,] and in all of this there is not acidity: the garden-kind resembles the هندباء, and in this is acidity, and an excessive viscous moisture: the best is the acid, gardenkind: here ends the quotation from the Minháj: (TA:) each species, (K, TA,) the bitter and the pleasant, or the garden-kind and the wild, (TA,) is good for thirst, and for inflammation arising from yellow bile; and strengthens the bowels; and allays heaving of the stomach, and hot palpitation, and tooth-ache; and is good for the black [or livid] jaundice; (K, * TA;) and, when cooked, and applied externally, for the leprosy; and for the ringworm (قُوَبَآء); and for glandular swellings in the neck, so much so that it is said to do good to him who has these even when hung upon the neck: with vinegar, also, it is good for the mange, or scab; and it is astringent; and puts a stop to malacia [so I render شَهْوَةالطِّين, lit. “ the longing for clay ”]: its seeds are cold in the first degree, and have an astringent property, particularly when fried: (TA:) they say that if these be hung, in a purse, upon a woman's left upper arm, she will not become pregnant as long as they remain upon her: (K, * TA:) they are also good for the sting of scorpions; and if some of the seeds be swallowed before the scorpion's stinging, its stinging will not hurt. (TA.) A2: Also What is in the interior of the [kind of citron called] أُتْرُجّ: (A, K:) n. un. with ة: (A:) it is cold and dry in the third degree; used as a liniment, it removes freckles and the like, and clears the complexion; and it suppresses (يَقْمَعُ) the yellow bile; and gives appetite for food; and is good for hot palpitation; and made into a beverage, it sweetens the odour of the mouth; and is good for looseness arising from yellow bile; and is suitable for those who are fevered. (TA.) [In the present day, in Egypt, this name is applied to A species of citron, itself, with a conical apex, and very acid pulp.]

حُمَّيْضَى A certain plant: not from حُمُوضَة. (TA.) حُمَّاضِيَّةٌ A confection composed of حُمَّاض of the أُتْرُجّ. (TA.) حَامِضٌ [Acid; sour; sharp or biting to the taste; pungent; having a taste like that of vinegar or like that of sour milk; see حُمُوضةٌ;] (S, Msb, K;) applied to milk (TA) and other things; (Msb;) and ↓ مُحَمِّضٌ signifies the same, applied to a grape. (TA.) b2: [Hence,] رَجُلٌ حَامِضُ الفُؤَادِ (tropical:) A man whose heart, or mind, is altered and bad, (O, K,) فِى الغَضَبِ in anger. (O.) And فُلَانٌ حَامِضُ الرِّئَتَيْنِ (assumed tropical:) Such a one is in a loathing state of mind; syn. مُرُّ النَّفْسِ. (S.) A2: إِبِلٌ حَامِضَةٌ Camels pasturing upon حَمْض; (S.) or eating it; (K;) or pastur ing upon حَمْض after pasturing upon خُلَّة: (ISk:) pl. حَوَامِضُ: (S, K:) and ↓ إِبِلٌ حَمْضِيَّةٌ Camels staying among حَمْض; (As, S, K;) as also ↓ حَمَضِيَّةٌ, contr. to rule: (TA:) and بَعِيرٌ

↓ حَمْضِىٌّ a camel eating حَمْض. (TA.) مَحْمَضٌ and مُحْمَضٌ, (S, K,) the latter on the authority of A'Obeyd, (S,) A place in which camels pasture upon حَمْض. (S, K. *) أَرْضٌ مُحْمِضَةٌ: see حَمِيضَةٌ.

مُحَمِّضٌ: see حَامِضٌ.

لَبَنٌ مُسْتَحْمِضٌ Milk slow in thickening. (Ibn-'Abbád, K.)

حرف

1 حَرَفَ الشَّىْءَ عَنْ وَجْهِهِ, (AO, S, Msb, K,) aor. ـُ (Msb,) or ـِ (K,) inf. n. حَرْفٌ, (S, Msb,) He turned the thing from its proper way, or manner: (K:) or altered it therefrom: (Msb:) and ↓ حرّفهُ, inf. n. تَحْرِيفٌ, has this latter meaning: (K, * TA:) or has an intensive signification of this kind. (Msb.) الكَلِمِ عَنْ ↓ تَحْرِيفُ مَوَاضِعِهِ signifies The altering words from their proper meanings: (S, * TA:) and agreeably with this explanation, the verb is used in the Kur iv. 48, &c.: (TA:) or تحريف signifies the perverting of language: (Msb:) or the altering a word in form; as in writing بُرْدٌ for بَرْدٌ; or vice versâ: (KT:) [and the mistranscribing a word in any manner: commonly used in this sense in the lexicons &c.: or the altering a word by substituting one letter, or more, for another, or others. See also صَحَّفَ.]

A2: See also 7.

A3: حَرَفَ لِعِيَالِهِ, (Msb, K,) aor. ـِ (As, S, K,) or ـُ (Msb,) He earned or gained [subsistence], or laboured to do so, for his family, or household, (As, S, Msb, K,) from this and that quarter; (As, S;) as also ↓ احترف: (Mgh, * Msb, TA:) and بِيَدَيْهِ ↓ احترف [he earned, or gained, with his hands]: and لِعِيَالِهِ ↓ تحرّف he applied himself to earn or gain [subsistence] for his family, or household, by means of any, or every, art or craft: (TA:) and ↓ احرف he laboured, or sought gain or sustenance, for his household, or family; expl. by كَدَّ عَلَى عِيَالِهِ. (IAar, K.) A4: حَرَفَ عَيْنُهُ, inf. n. حَرْفَةٌ, (K,) not an inf. n. of un., (TA,) He applied collyrium to his eye (K, TA) with the [style called] مِيل. (TA.) A5: حُرِفَ فِى مَالِهِ, inf. n. حَرْفَةٌ, He suffered the loss of somewhat of his property. (Lh, K.) 2 حَرَّفَ see 1, in two places. b2: [Hence,] طَاعُونٌ يُحَرِّفُ القُلُوبَ [A pestilence] causing the hearts [of those witnessing its effects] to turn away, and be aloof: (K:) occurring in a trad.: or, accord. to one relation, يُحَوِّفُ القلوب, (TA,) i. e., turning the hearts from confidence, and inclining them to removal and flight. (K and TA in art. حوف.) b3: تَحْرِيفُ القَلَمِ The nibbing the writing-reed obliquely; (S, * K, * TA;) making the right tooth of the nib higher [i. e. longer] than the left. (TA.) You say also, حَرَّفَ القَطَّةَ [He made the nibbing oblique]. (TA.) and حرّف السِّكِّينَ فِى حَالِ القَطِّ [He turned the knife obliquely in nibbing]. (TA.) b4: See also 7. b5: تَحْرِيفٌ also signifies The putting in motion, or into a state of commotion; syn. تَحْرِيكٌ. (TA.) b6: قَالَ بِيَدِهِ فَحَرَّفَهَا كَأَنَّهُ يُرِيدُ القَتْلَ, in a trad., means [He made a sign with his hand,] and imitated with it the cutting of a sword with its edge. (TA.) 3 حُورِفَ He was debarred from the means of subsistence; because he of whom this is said is aloof (بِحَرْفٍ) from the means of subsistence. (Mgh.) And حُورِفَ كَسْبُ فُلَانٍ Such a one was made to experience difficulty (S, TA) in his buying and selling, and was straitened (TA) in his means of subsistence; as though his means of subsistence were turned away from him: (S, TA:) or he had his gain, or earnings, turned away from him. (Msb.) It is said in a trad. of Ibn-Mes'ood, مَوْتُ المُؤْمِنِ عَرَقُ الجَبِينِ تَبْقَى عَلَيْهِ البَقِيَّةِمِنَ الذُّنُوبِ فَيُحَارِفُ بِهَا عِنْدَ المَوْتِ, i. e. [The death of the believer is accompanied with sweating of the side of the forehead: some sins remain chargeable against him, and] he is made to experience difficulty by them [in dying], in order that his sins may be diminished. (S.) A2: مُحَارَفَةٌ has also a meaning like مُفَاخَرَةٌ: Sá'ideh says, فَقَدْ عَلِمُوا فِى الغَزْوِ كَيْفَ نُحَارِفُ [And they certainly know, in warfare, how we vie for superiority in glory: or] accord. to Skr, it means how we deal with them; as when one says to a man, What is thy حِرْفَة (i. e. thine occupation) and thy lineage? (TA:) [or the meaning may be how we requite; for]

A3: حارفهُ بِسُوْءٍ signifies He requited him for evil (K, TA) that he had done. (TA.) And it is said in a trad., إِنَّ العَبْدِ لَيُحَارَفُ عَنْ عَمَلِهِ الخَيْرَ أَوْ الشَّرَّ, i. e. [Verily the servant] shall be requited [for his deed; the good I mean, or the evil]. (IAar, TA.) And ↓ احرف also signifies He requited for good or evil. (IAar, K.) A4: مُحَارَفَةٌ signifies also The measuring a wound with the مِحْرَاف, i. e. the probe. (K, * TA.) 4 احرف: see 1. b2: Also, (inf. n. إِحْرَافٌ, Msb,) His مال [or cattle] increased, and became in a good state or condition. (Az, S, Msb, K.) One says, جَآءَ بِالحَقِ وَالإِحْرَافِ, meaning He came with, or brought, much cattle. (Az, S. [See حِلْقٌ.]) A2: He emaciated, or rendered lean, a she-camel: so says As: others say احرث. (S.) [See حَرْفٌ: and see حَرِيثَةٌ.]

A3: See also 3, last sentence but one.5 تَحَرَّفَ see 7: b2: and see also 1.7 انحرف [It became turned, or altered, from its proper way, or manner; quasi-pass. of 1 in the first of the senses explained above: and] he turned aside; (Az, S, Mgh, Msb, K;) as also ↓ تحرّف; (Az, S, Mgh, K;) and ↓ احرورف; (Az, S, K;) and ↓ حَرَفَ, inf. n. حَرْفٌ; (TA;) عَنْهُ from it. (Az, S, Msb, TA.) [Hence,] one says, انحرف مِزَاجَهُ [His temperament, or constitution, became disordered]; as also ↓ حَرَّفَ, [app. a mistranscription for حُرِّفَ,] inf. n. تَحْرِيفٌ. (TA.) [And انحرف عَلَيْهِ He turned against him, with enmity, or anger.] And انحرف إِلَيْهِ He turned to, or towards, him, or it. (TA.) 8 إِحْتَرَفَ see 1, in two places.12 إِحْرَوْرَفَ see 7.

حَرْفٌ The extremity, verge, border, margin, brink, brow, side, or edge, (S, Mgh, * K, TA,) of anything; (S, K;) as, for instance, the side of a river or rivulet, and of a ship or boat, (TA,) and of the notch of an arrow; (Msb;) and the edge of a sword: (L, TA:) pl. [of mult. حُرُوفٌ, and of pauc.] أَحْرُفٌ. (TA.) Hence, (S,) [A point, a ridge, a brow, and a ledge, of a mountain:] the pointed, sharp, or edged, summit of a mountain: (S, Msb, K:) a projecting portion in the side of a mountain, in form like a small دُكَّان [i. e. bench] or the like: and a portion in the summit of a mountain, having a thin edge, or ridge, rising above the upper part of the back: (Sh, TA:) pl. (of the word thus used in relation to a mountain, TA) حِرَفٌ; (Fr, S, Msb, K;) accord. to Fr, (Msb,) the only instance of the kind except طِلَلٌ as pl. of طَلٌّ. (Msb, K.) [Hence, also,] A nib, of a writing-reed, obliquely cut: so in the phrase قَلَمٌ لَا حَرْفَ لَهُ, in the S and K in art. جزم, a writingreed not having a nib obliquely cut. (TA in that art. [See 2 in the present art.]) And حَرْفَا الرَّأْسِ The two lateral halves of the head. (TA.) [Hence, also, the phrase] فُلَانٌ عَلَى حَرْفٍ مِنْ

أَمْرِهِ [and بِحَرْفٍ مِنْهُ (see 3, first sentence,)] Such a one is [standing] aloof with respect to his affair, (عَلَى نَاحِيَةٍ مِنْهُ, ISd, TA,) [in suspense,] waiting, and looking to the result, if he see, in regarding it from one side, what he likes; (TA;) turning from it if he see what does not please him. (ISd, TA.) The saying, in the Kur xxii. 11, وَمِنَ النَّاسِ مَنْ يَعْبُدُ اللّٰهَ عَلَى حَرْفٍ means And of men is he who serves God standing aloof with respect to religion, in a fluctuating state, like him who is in the outskirts of the army, who, if sure of victory and spoil, stands firm, and otherwise flees: (Ksh, Bd: *) or the meaning is, who serves God in doubt, or suspense, (Zj, K, Jel,) being unsteady like him who alights and abides upon the حَرْف [i. e. point, or ridge, or brow,] of a mountain: (Jel:) or in a state of disquietude respecting his case; (Ibn-'Arafeh, K;) i. e. not entering into the religion firmly, or steadily: (K:) or who serves God in one mode of circumstances; i. e. when in ample circumstances, and not when straitened in circumstances; (Az, S, K;) as though good fortune and plenty were one side, and an evil state were another side: (Az, TA:) [hence,] حَرْفٌ sometimes signifies a mode, or manner, and a way. (Msb.) b2: A letter of the alphabet: pl. حُرُوفٌ: (S, Msb, K:) the letters being thus called because they are the extremities of the word [and of the syllable]. (Kull.) The saying of the lawyers, تُبْطَلُ الصَّلَاةَ بِحَرْفٍ مُفْهِمٍ [Prayer is made null by a significant letter] means only by an imperative of a verb of which the first and last radical letters are infirm; such as فِ from وَفَى, and قِ from وَقَى, and the like. (Msb.) b3: As a grammatical term, (assumed tropical:) [A particle; i. e.] what is used to express a meaning, and is not a noun nor a verb: every other definition of it is bad: (K:) pl. حُرُوفٌ. (Msb, &c.) b4: And (tropical:) A word [absolutely: often used in this sense in lexicons &c.]. (Kull.) b5: A dialect, an idiom, or a mode of expression, peculiar to certain of the Arabs: pl. [of pauc.]

أَحْرُفٌ: so in the saying (of Mohammad, TA) نَزَلَ القُرْآنُ عَلَى سَبْعَةِ أَحْرُفٍ The Kur-án has been revealed according to seven dialects, of the dialects of the Arabs: (A'Obeyd, Az, IAth, K:) or this means, according to seven modes, or manners, (Mgh, Msb,) of reading: whence فُلَانٌ يَقْرَأُ بِحَرْفِ ابْنِ مَسْعُودٍ Such a one reads in the manner of reading of Ibn-Mes'ood. (Mgh.) A2: Applied to a she-camel, (assumed tropical:) Lean, or light of flesh; or lean, and lank in the belly; (S, K;) and firm, strong, or hardy; likened to the حَرْف of a mountain; (S;) or to the حرف of a sword, (Z, O, TA,) in respect of her leanness, or thinness, and her sharpness and effectiveness in pace; (Z, TA;) or to a letter of the alphabet, meaning the letter ا, in respect of her leanness: (TA:) or excellent, or high-bred, or strong and light and swift, sharp and effective in pace, rendered lean by journeyings; likened to the حرف of a sword: (L:) or emaciated: (S, K:) so As used to say: (S:) but this is inconsistent with Dhu-r-Rummeh's description of a she-camel by the epithets جُمَالِيَّةٌ حَرْفٌ سِنَادٌ: (TA:) [see حَرِيثَةٌ:] or [in the CK “ and ”] great; big; of great size; (K, TA;) likened to the حرف of a mountain: (TA:) it is applied only to a she-camel: one may not say جَمَلٌ حَرْفٌ. (IAar, TA.) حُرْفٌ and ↓ حِرْفَةٌ (S, K) and ↓ حُرْفَةٌ (Mgh, K) and ↓ حِرَافٌ (TA) Ill-fatedness; privation of prosperity; or the being denied prosperity; syn. حِرْمَانٌ [as inf. n. of حُرِمَ]: (K, TA:) lack of good fortune, so that one has no increase of his cattle or other property: (S:) debarment from the means of subsistence. (Mgh.) Hence the saying of 'Omar, أَحَدِهِمْ أَشَدُّ عَلَىَّ مِنْ عَيْلَتِهِ ↓ لِحِرْفَةُ, (S, K,) or, accord. to one reading, ↓ لَحُرْفَةُ, (TA,) [Verily the ill-fatedness of any one of them is more distressing to me than his poverty:] i. e., the supplying the wants of the poor man is easier to me than the making the bad to thrive: or the meaning is, the want of the means of gaining subsistence by any one of them, and grief on that account, is more distressing to me than his poverty: so in the Nh. (TA.) A2: الحُرْفُ A certain grain, resembling الخَرْدَل [or mustard]; (Az, Msb, TA;) called by the vulgar, (AHn, TA,) or in the dial. of El-'Irák, (TA in art. رشد,) حَبُّ الرَّشَادِ, (AHn, S, K,) or الرَّشَادُ: (Msb:) n. un. with ة, (TA,) applied to a single grain thereof. (Msb.) [See art. رشد.] Hence حِرِّيفٌ [q. v.]. (S, Msb.) حُرْفَةٌ: see حُرْفٌ, in two places.

حِرْفَةٌ A craft, or handicraft, (S, K, TA,) by which one gains his subsistence; a mode, or manner, of gain; any habitual work or occupation of a man; because he turns (يَنْحَرِفُ, K, i. e. يَمِيلُ, TA) to it; (K, TA;) a subst. from اِحْتَرَفَ: (Mgh, Msb:) pl. حِرَفٌ. (TA.) A2: See also حُرْفٌ, in two places.

حُرْفِىٌّ A seller of الحُرْف, i. e. حَبّ الرَّشَاد. (K.) حِرَافٌ: see حُرْفٌ.

حَرِيفٌ A fellow-worker, syn. مُعَامِلٌ, (S, Mgh, Msb, K,) in one's craft or ordinary occupation: (K:) and an associate: (KL:) pl. حُرَفَآءُ. (Msb.) b2: It is mostly used by foreigners as meaning A companion in drinking: and by most of the Turks, as implying vituperation; [like our term “ fel-low; ”] so that when any one of them addresses another by this epithet, he is angry. (TA.) حَرَافَةٌ The quality, or property, of burning, or biting, the tongue; acritude. (S, Msb, TA.) حِرِّيفٌ, from الحُرْفُ, Burning, or biting, to the tongue: (S, Msb, TA:) it is applied in this sense to an onion, and to other things: one should not say حَرِّيفٌ. (S, TA.) مَحْرِفٌ A place to which to turn away, or back, from a thing. (AO, S, K.) So in the saying, مَالِى عَنْ هٰذَا الأَمْرِ مَحْرِفٌ [I have no place to which to turn away, or back, from this thing]. (AO, S, K. *) b2: Also, and ↓ مُحْتَرَفٌ, A place in which a man earns or gains [subsistence], or labours to do so, and employs himself as he pleases, or follows his various pursuits. (K.) مُحْرِفٌ A man whose property increases, and becomes in a good state or condition; or whose cattle increase &c. (S, Msb.) مِحْرَفٌ: see مِحْرَافٌ.

مِحْرَفَةٌ: see مِحْرَافٌ.

مُحَرَّفٌ [pass. part. n. of 2, q. v. b2: ] One whose property has gone. (TA.) b3: A writing-reed nibbed obliquely; having the right tooth of the nib higher [i. e. longer] than the left. (TA.) مُحَرِّفُ القُلُوبِ, applied to God, The Turner, or Incliner, of hearts: or the Mover of hearts: (TA:) or the Remover of hearts. (Fr, TA voce مُحَرِّك, q. v.) مِحْرَافٌ (S, L, K) and ↓ مِحْرَفٌ, (L, TA,) or ↓ مِحْرَفَةٌ, (Akh, TA,) A probe with which the depth of a wound is measured: (S, L, K:) pl. of the first مَحَارِيفُ; and [of the second, or,] accord. to Akh, of the last, مَحَارِفُ. (TA.) مُحَارَفٌ Prevented, or withheld, from obtaining good; withheld from good fortune, or from sustenance; denied, or refused, good, or prosperity; lacking good fortune; having no increase of his cattle or other property; (S, Mgh, * K; *) contr. of مُبَارَكٌ: (S:) or having his gain, or earnings, turned away from him: (Msb:) or who obtains not good from a quarter to which he betakes himself: or scanted in his means of subsistence: or who works not, or labours not, to earn, or gain: or who earns, or gains, with his hands, but not enough for the support of himself and his household or family: (TA:) مُخَارَفٌ and مُجَارَفٌ are dial. vars. thereof. (TA in art. خرف.) مُحْتَرَفٌ: see مَحْرِفٌ.

مُحْتَرِفٌ A handicraftsman; a worker with his hands. (S, TA.) مُتَحَرِّفًا لِقِتَالٍ, in the Kur [viii. 16], means Turning away for the purpose of returning to fight: the doing which is one of the stratagems of war. (Mgh, Msb. *)

حشف

1 حَشَفَ, said of a she-camel's dug, Its milk became drawn up or withdrawn or withheld, or it went away, from it. (IDrd, L, TA. [See also 4 and 10.]) 2 حشّف عَيْنَهُ, inf. n. تَحْشِيفٌ, He (a man, TA) contracted his eyelids, and looked through the interstices of their lashes. (IDrd, K.) 4 احشف, said of a she-camel's udder, It became contracted, and like an old worn-out water-skin or milk-skin. (TA. [See also 1 and 10.]) b2: احشفت النَّخْلَةُ The palm-tree bore dates such as are termed حَشَف. (S, Mgh, Msb.) 5 تحشّف He wore old and worn-out clothing, (O, L, KL, TA,) such as is termed حَشِيف: (O, L, TA:) in the copies of the K, erroneously, ↓ استحشف. (TA.) 10 استحشف, said of an udder, (JM, K,) It became contracted: (JM:) or became dried up and contracted. (K. [See also 1 and 4.]) and استحشفت الأُذُنُ The ear became dried up (Mgh, Msb, K) and contracted. (K.) And استحشف الأَنْفُ The cartilage of the nose became dried up from want of natural motion. (Msb.) b2: See also 5.

حَشْفٌ Dry bread. (K.) حَشَفٌ The worst kind of dates; (S, Mgh, Msb, K;) that dry up without ripening, so that they have no flesh: (Msb:) or dates without firmness, having no stones; (K;) like شِيص: (TA:) or dry, or tough, bad dates; (K;) for when they dry up, they become hard and bad, without taste and without sweetness: (TA:) or of which the lower portion has become bad and rotten, while in its place: (IAar, TA in art. خشو:) n. un. with ة. (Msb.) [Hence,] أَحَشَفًا وَ سُوْءَ كِيلَةٍ, a prov., (S, Meyd, O,) meaning Dost thou combine the worst of dates and bad measure? applied to him who combines two bad qualities. (Meyd, O.) b2: A worn-out udder; (S, K;) as also ↓ حَشِفٌ: (K:) or an udder of which the milk has dried up, so that it has become contracted. (EM p. 67.) b3: A thing that is lean, and dry, or withered. (KL.) حَشِفٌ: see حَشَفٌ. — تَمْرٌ حَشِفٌ Dates having many such as are termed حَشَف. (TA.) حَشَفَةٌ The head [or glans] of the penis: (TA:) or the part of the penis, (S, K,) [i. e.] the part of the head of the penis, (Mgh,) that is above [i. e. beyond] the place of circumcision: (S, Mgh, K:) [accord. to the latter explanation, somewhat more than the glans:] the mulct for the cutting off of which is the whole price of blood. (TA.) حَشِيفٌ Old, and worn-out: applied to clothing or a garment. (S, K, TA.) نَخْلَةٌ مِحْشَافٌ [A palm-tree that bears dates such as are termed حَشَف]. (S and L voce مِعْرَارٌ.) مُتَحَشِّفٌ A man clad in old and worn-out clothing [such as is termed حَشِيف]: (S, TA:) a man in evil condition; slovenly in his person; threadbare, shabby, or mean, in the state of his apparel: or dried up, and shrivelled: or having his garment tucked up. (TA.)