كنز

1 كَنَزَ المَالَ, aor. ـِ (T, S, M, Mgh, Msb, K, &c.,) and, accord. to MF, كَنُزَ also, but the former is that which commonly obtains, (TA,) inf. n. كَنْزٌ, (Mgh, Msb,) He buried the property, or treasure, (S, K, TA,) in the earth: (TA:) he collected the property together, (Mgh, Msb,) and treasured it, hoarded it, laid it up, reposited it, stowed it, or stored it, in secret: (Msb:) and المَالَ ↓ اكتنز signifies the same as كَنَزَهُ. (TA.) b2: كَنَزَ الشَّىْءَ, (K,) aor. ـِ inf. n. كَنْزٌ, (TA,) He pressed the thing, meaning anything, (K,) with his hand or foot, (TA,) in a receptacle, or in the earth. (K.) b3: كَنَزَالتَّمْرَ, (S, A, Msb, K,) aor. ـِ (K,) inf. n. كَنْزٌ, (Msb, TA,) and, accord. to Az, كَنَازٌ and كِنَازٌ, [but see the former of these two words below,] (Msb,) He stowed, or packed, the dates, (TA,) فِى الوِعَآءِ in the receptacle, (A, Msb,) or فِى الجِلَالِ in the large receptacles of palm-leaves, [pl. of جُلَّة,] by throwing [the contents of] a bag (جِرَاب) into the bottom of the جُلَّة and pressing them with the feet until they became compacted, or commixed in a mass, and then bag after bag until the جلّة was pressed full, when it was sewed up with palm-leaf cord. (TA.) b4: كَنَزَ البُرَّ فِى الجِرَابِ [He stored up, or packed, the wheat in the bag]. (TA.) [See an ex. of the pass. part. n. voce دَرٌّ.] b5: كَنَزَ الجِرَابَ He filled the bag very full. (A.) And كَنَزَ السِّقَآءَ He filled the skin of milk or water. (TA.) and شَدَّ كَنْزَ القِرْبَةِ He filled the water-skin. (TA.) b6: كَنَزَ الرٌّمْحَ, (Sgh, TA,) inf. n. كَنْزٌ, (Sgh, K,) He stuck the spear into the ground. (Sgh, K, * TA.) 8 اكتنز It (a thing, S, Mgh, Msb,) became collected together, or compacted; and full. (S, Mgh, Msb, K.) b2: اكتنز التَّمْرُ [The dates became closely packed, or pressed together so as to be compact or commixed in a mass: see 1]. (TA; and K in art. وجأ; &c.) The like is also said of wheat. (TA.) b3: اكتنز اللَّحْمُ The flesh became compact, or hard. (From an explanation of the part. n. in the A; &c.) A2: اكتنز الجِرَابُ The bag became very full. (A.) And اكتنز السِّقَآءُ The skin of milk or water became full. (TA.) A3: اكتنز المَالَ: see 1.

كَنْزٌ Treasure; property buried (S, A, Mgh, Msb, K) in the earth: (TA:) an inf. n. used as a subst.: pl. كُنُوزٌ. (Mgh, Msb.) b2: Hence, (TA,) it is applied in a trad. to (tropical:) Any property whereof the portion that should be given in alms is not given. (S, TA.) b3: Property that is preserved in a receptacle. (TA.) b4: Anything abundant, collected together, that is desired with emulation. (Sh, TA.) b5: Gold: and silver. (K.) It is said in a trad., أُعْطِيتُ الكَنْزَيْنِ مِنَ الأَحْمَرِ وَالأَبْيَضِ I have been given gold and silver. (TA.) b6: (tropical:) [A treasure of knowledge or science]. Yousay, مَعَهُ كَنْزٌ مِنْ كُنُوزِ العِلْمِ (tropical:) [With him is a treasure of the treasures of knowledge or science]. (A, TA.) In the Kur, xviii. 81, it is said to be used in a similar manner, as signifying not gold nor silver, but (tropical:) Science and books. (TA.) and it is said in like manner in a trad., أَلَا أُعَلِّمُكَ كَنْزًا مِنْ كُنُوزِ الجَنَّةِ لَا حَوْلَ وَلَا قُوَّةَ إِلَّا بِاللّٰهِ (tropical:) [Ho! I will teach thee a treasure of the treasures of paradise: There is no power nor strength but in God]: meaning, that a reward is stored up [in paradise] for him who says this, and who describes himself thereby, like as a treasure is stored up. (TA.) b7: Aboo-'Alee El-Kálee says, that it is used in a verse of 'Alkamah, which he does not quote, as signifying (tropical:) Fat; as a subst.; and adds, that it is the only instance known to him of its being thus used. (TA.) A2: Also, That in which property is preserved, or guarded: (K, * TA:) and ↓ مَكْنِزٌ [or rather both] that in which property is buried, treasured, hoarded, laid up, reposited, or stored, in secret: pl. of the latter, مَكَانِزُ. (A, TA.) كَنِزٌ: see مُكْتَنِزٌ.

كَنَازٌ and ↓ كِنَازٌ: see كَنَزَ التَّمْرَ. [Accord. to Az, they are inf. ns.; but some seem to regard them as simple substs.] You say, هٰذَا زَمَنُ الكَنَازِ, (S, Msb, K. *) and ↓ الكِنَازِ, (K,) This is the time of packing the dates. (K, * TA.) And El-Umawee says, أَتَيْتُهُمْ عِنْدَ الكَنَازِ, and ↓ الكِنَازِ, I came to them when they were packing the dates. (TA.) ISk says, that it has been heard only with fet-h; (S, Msb;) but some say, that it is like جَدَادٌ and جِدَادٌ, and صَرَامٌ and صِرَامٌ. (S.) b2: Also, sometimes, [The storing, or packing,] of wheat. (TA.) كِنَازٌ: see كَنَازٌ: A2: and see also مُكْتَنِزٌ, throughout.

كَنِيزٌ Dates packed in [the receptacles called]

قَوَاصِر [pl. of قَوْصَرَّةٌ] (K, TA) and جِلَال [pl. of جُلَّةٌ]. (TA,) for winter; (K, TA;) as also ↓ مَكْنُوزٌ. (TA.) See كَنَزَ التَّمْرَ. b2: See also مُكْتَنِزٌ.

كَنَّازٌ One who takes extraordinary pains in treasuring, or hoarding, gold and silver. (TA.) مَكْنِزٌ: see كَنْزٌ.

مَكْنُوزٌ: see كَنِيزٌ: b2: and مُكْتَنِزٌ.

مُكْتَنِزُ اللَّحْمِ, and ↓ كَنِيزُهُ, (A, TA,) and ↓ كَنِزَهُ, and ↓ مَكْنُوزُهُ, (TA,) Compact, or hard, in flesh: (A:) and [in like manner] ↓ كِنَازٌ compact and strong in flesh. (TA.) You say, نَاقَةٌ كِنَازٌ, (S, K,) or كِنَازُ اللَّحْمِ, (A,) and جَارِيَةٌِ كِنَازٌ, (K,) and هَنٌ كِنَازٌ, (TA,) A she-camel, (S, A, K,) and a girl, (K,) and a woman's pudendum, (TA,) compact, (مُكْتَنِزَة, S, or كَنِيزَة, or, as in the K, abundant, كَثِيرَة, TA,) in flesh, (S, K,) and hard, or firm: (K:) pl. كُنْزٌ and كِنَازٌ; the latter being like the sing.; (K;) but the two vowels [namely the two kesrehs] and the two alifs are regarded as different; for the word is not, as some assert, of the same class as جُنُبٌ, since it has a dual form, namely كِنَازَانِ. (TA.) b2: كِتَابٌ مُكْتَنِزٌ بِالفَوَائِدِ (tropical:) [A book, or writing, stored with useful things]. (A, TA.)

كرس

2 كرّسهُ, (TA,) inf. n. تَكْرِيسٌ, (K, TA,) He put it, or placed it, namely, anything, one part upon another. (TA.) b2: He put it together, one part to another. (TA.) b3: He founded it, namely, a building. (K, TA.) 4 اكرست الدَّارُ The house had in it compacted dung and urine of camels or of sheep or goats: S, A, * TA:) and in like manner you say of a place: (TA:) and اكرست الدّابَّةُ The beast of carriage had upon it, (K, TA,) i. e., upon its tail, (TA,) compacted dung and urine. (K, TA.) See كِرْسٌ.5 تكرّس It (anything) became put, or placed, one part upon another. (TA.) b2: It became compacted and cohering; (A, * TA;) as also ↓ تكارس. (TA.) b3: It (the foundation of a building) became hard and strong. (TA.) A2: He collected together fire-wood, &c. (Msb.) 6 تَكَاْرَسَ see 5.

كِرْسٌ Compacted, or caked, or a cake of, dung and urine of camels and of sheep or goats, (S, * A, * K, * TA,) in a house, and upon the traces of men's abode: (TA:) and also, compacted clay or mud: (TA:) pl. أَكْرَاسٌ. (A, TA.) [Hence,] كِرْسُ الحَوْضِ The place in which the camels stand at the watering-trough or tank, and which in consequence becomes compacted [by the mixture of their dung and urine with the soil]. (TA.) b2: كِرْسُ بِنَآءٍ [The foundation, or lowest part of a building: see 2]. (TA.) A2: One of the أَكْرَاس [meaning series or strings of beads] of [the necklaces and similar ornaments called] قَلَائِد and وُشُح and the like: you say, قِلَادَةٌ ذَاتُ كِرْسَيْنِ [a necklace of two such series], and ذَاتُ أَكْرَاسٍ ثَلَاثَةٍ [of three such series], when you join one part to another [in several places, by larger beads: see قِلَادَةٌ مُكْرَسَةٌ, below]. (Lth, K. *) كَرِسٌ: see مُكْرِسٌ.

كُرْسِىٌّ and (sometimes, S, Msb) كِرْسِىٌّ (S, Msb, K) A throne; syn. سَرِيرٌ: (K:) a chair: (TK:) a seat not larger than is sufficient for one person: (Bd, ii. 256:) [and a stool:] pl. كَرَاسِىٌّ (S, Msb, K) and sometimes كَرَاسٍ, agreeably with a rule mentioned by ISk. (Msb.) It is the place [or seat] of the king, and of the learned man: and hence, as used in the Kur ii. 256, it is explained as signifying (tropical:) Dominion: (A:) and (tropical:) the power of God, whereby He holds the heavens and the earth: (TA:) and (tropical:) knowledge: (A, K:) which last explanation is ascribed to I'Ab: but the truth is, that I'Ab explained it as there signifying the [foot-stool of God; or] place of the feet: but as to the عَرْش [of God], this is immeasurable: (Az, TA:) or it signifies the sphere of the stars. (TA, art. عرش.) [Hence, also, you say,] هُوَ مِنْ أَهْلِ الكُرْسِىِّ (tropical:) He is of the people of science. (TK.) [And hence,] الكَرَاسِىُّ is also used [elliptically] to signify (tropical:) The learned men; accord. to Ktr. (A.) b2: Also, A prop, or support, for a wall. (TA.) b3: [ذَاتُ الكُرْسِىِّ The Constellation Cassiopeia: see خَضِيبٌ.]

كِرْيَاسٌ A privy on the top of the roof of a house, (S, A, * Msb, K,) with a conduit from the ground, (K,) or, as in some lexicons, to the ground: one that is below is not so called: (TA:) or the privy of an upper chamber: (MF:) of the measure فِعْيَالٌ, (Az, Msb, K,) from كِرْسٌ, meaning, “ compacted dung and urine of camels, or of sheep or goats: ” (Az, * A, * K, TA:) so called because of the filth that adheres to it, and becomes compacted: (Az, TA:) incorrectly said by some to be also written كِرْبَاسٌ, with the single-pointed letter [ب]: the pl. is كَرَايِيسُ. (TA.) كُرَّاسٌ: see what next follows.

كُرَّاسَةٌ [A quire, or parcel, of paper, generally consisting of five sheets, forming ten leaves, of a book; also vulgarly called كَرَّاسَةٌ and كَرَّاسٌ;] one of what are termed ↓ كُرَّاسٌ and كَرَارِيسُ; [كُرَّاسٌ being a coll. gen. n. and كَرَارِيسُ a pl.;] (S, A, K;) a portion of a صَحِيفَة [i. e. book or volume]: (A, K:) so called because compacted: (TA:) or from تَكَرَّسَ signifying “ he collected together ” fire-wood, &c. (Msb.) You say, فِى هٰذِهِ الكُرَّاسَةِ عَشْرُ وَرَقَاتٍ [In this quire of a book are ten leaves]. (A.) And هٰذَا الكِتَابُ عِدَّةُ كَرَارِيسَ [This book is composed of a number of quires]. (A.) And قَرَأْتُ كُرَّاسَةً مِنْ كِتَابِ سِيبَوَيْهِ [I read a quire of the Book of Seebaweyh]. (A.) And التَّاجِرُ مَجْدُهُ فِى كِيسِهِ وَالعَالِمُ مَجْدُهُ فِى كَرَارِيسِهِ [The merchant's glory is in his purse, and the learned man's glory is in his quires of books]. (A.) مُكْرَسٌ: see مُكْرِسٌ. b2: قِلَادَةٌ مُكْرَسَةٌ and ↓ مُكَرَّسَةٌ A necklace in which the pearls or other beads are strung upon two strings, and these are joined together by divisions of large beads: so in the TS and K, excepting that in the latter, فِى خَيْطٍ is erroneously put for فِى خَيْطَيْنِ. (TA.) [See كِرْسٌ, last signification.] And [in like manner], ↓ نَظْمٌ مُكَرَّسٌ and مُتَكَرِّسٌ A string of beads one above another. (TA.) رَسْمٌ مُكْرِسٌ (S) (in the L and TA مُكْرَسٌ, but the former, being agreeable with the verb, (see 4,) is probably the right reading,] Traces of men's abode in which is a compacted mixture of dung and urine of camels or of sheep or goats. (S, L, * TA. * [And accord. to the second and third of these authorities, ↓ كَرِسٌ seems to signify the same.]) مُكَرَّسٌ: see مُكْرَسٌ: the former, in two places.

مُتَكَرِّسٌ: see مُكْرَسٌ: the former, in two places.

كشط

1 كَشَطَ, (S, Msb, K,) aor. ـِ (Msb, MS,) inf. n. كَشْطٌ, (Msb, K,) He removed, put off, took off, or stripped off, (S, Msb, K,) a thing (Msb, K) from (عَنْ) a thing which it covered; (K;) as, for instance, the housing, or covering, (S, K,) from a horse, (K,) or from the back of a horse; (S;) and the cover from a thing; (S;) and the skin from a slaughtered camel: (TA:) and قَشَطَ is a dial. var. thereof; (Yaakoob, S;) the former being of the dial. of Kureysh, (Yaakoob, accord. to the TA,) or of Keys, (M in art. قشط,) and the latter of the dial. of Temeem and Asad; the ك not being a substitute for the ق: (Yaakoob, TA:) and ↓ استكشط signifies the same. (Ham., p. 693.) It is said in the Kur, [lxxxi. 11,] وَإِذَا السَّمَآءُ كُشِطَتْ And when the heaven shall be removed from its place, like as a roof is removed from its place; (Zj, K;) and in like manner قُشِطَتٌ, (Zj, S, *) accord. to the reading of 'Abd-Allah [Ibn-Mes'ood]: (S:) or shall be pulled off and folded together. (Fr.) And you say also, كَشَطَ الحَرْفَ He removed the letter from its place. (TA.) And كُشِطَ رَوْعُهُ, (TA,) inf. n. كِشَاطٌ, (K, * TA,) (tropical:) His fright, or fear, became removed; (K, * TA;) and so ↓ انكشط روعه: (TA:) or the latter signifies (tropical:) his fright, or fear, went away. (S, K, TA.) And كَشَطَ الدَّابَّهَ and قَشَطَهَا [He removed the housing, or covering, from the beast of carriage]. (TA in art. قشط.) And كَشَطْتُ البَعِيرَ, (S, Msb,) aor. as above, (Msb,) and so the inf. n., (S, Msb,) I skinned the camel: (S, Msb:) you should not say سَلَخْتُ; for the Arabs, in speaking of a camel, say only كَشَطْتُهُ and جَلَّدْتُهُ. (S.) 5 تكشّط السَّحَابُ فِى السَّمَآءِ The clouds became dissundered and dispersed in the sky. (TA.) 7 انكشط التُّرَابُ [The dust became removed, or cleared away, by the wind]. (T, TA in art. جول.) See also 1.10 إِسْتَكْشَطَ see 1.

كُشْطٌ i. q. قُسْطٌ. (AA in TA art. قسط.) كِشَاطٌ: see كُشِطَ.

A2: The stripped skin of a slaughtered camel. (Lth, K.) Sometimes the latter is covered over with it; and one says, إِرْفَعْ عَنْهَا كِشَاطَهَا لِأَنْظُرَ إِلَى لَحْمِهَا [Take thou off from it its stripped skin, that I may look at its flesh.] (Lth, K. *) كَشَّاطٌ: see what next follows.

كَاشِطٌ A slaughterer [or skinner] of camels; as also ↓ كَشَّاطٌ. (TA.) b2: Also, [its pls.] كَشَطَةٌ (Lth, K,) and كَاشِطُونَ (M, TA) The owners of a skinned camel. (Lth, M, K.) جَزُورٌ مَكْشُوطَةٌ [A skinned slaughtered camel]. (K.) كشف كشم كشو كص See Supplement

كشف

1 كَشَفَهُ and كَشَفَ عَنْهُ He uncovered it; unveiled it; laid it open; displayed it; exposed it to view; discovered it; detected it; revealed it; disclosed it. b2: كَشَفَ عَنْهُ He investigated, explored, or scrutinized, it; searched, examined, or inquired, into it. b3: كَشَفَهُ He removed it; namely, a cover, or covering, or the like: and he uncovered it, laid it open, &c.; as also كَشَفَ عَنْهُ. b4: كَشَفَ شَيْأً عَنْ شَىْءٍ He removed, put off, took off, or stripped off, a thing from over, or from before, a thing which it covered or concealed. (K.) b5: كَشَفَ He removed, cleared away, or dispelled, grief, or sorrow: see فَرَجَ (of which it is an explanation in the Msb and K). b6: See 7.3 كَاشَفَهُ

, inf. n. مُكَاشَفَةٌ, [He acted openly with him, or towards him;] syn. of the inf. n. مُجَاهَرَةٌ. (Har, p. 470.) He, or it, appeared to him; as also كَاشَفَ عَلَيْهِ; syn. ظهر له. (TA.) b2: كُوشِفَ بِمَا أَخْفَيْتُ He became acquainted with, knew, or got knowledge of, what I concealed: syn. إِطَّلَعَ عَلَيْهِ. (Har. p. 686.) b3: مُكَاشَفَةٌ The showing open enmity, or hostility, with any one. (KL.) [I. e. كَاشَفَهُ alone, or] كاشفه بِالعَدَاوَةِ signifies He showed open enmity, or hostility, with him; (S, MA, K;) and so كاشفه العَدَاوَةَ. (MA.) See صَفْحَةٌ. b4: [Also Discovery, or revelation: pl. مُكَاشَفَاتٌ: see Hájjee Khaleefeh, s. v.] b5: كَاشَفَهُ الحَرْبَ [He made war with him openly]. (Msb, art. نبذ.) 5 تَكَشَّفَ He uncovered, or exposed, himself in sitting. (TA, voce أَعْفَتُ.) 6 تَكَاشَفُوا They revealed their faults, or secrets, one to another: see تَدَافَنُوا.7 اِنْكَشَفَ عَنْهُ [He, or it, withdrew, or became withdrawn, or removed or became removed, from him, or it, or from over it] b2: اِنْكَشَفَتْ said of a she-camel: see مُفَنَّنٌ. b3: اِنْكَشَفُوا [They were routed, defeated, or put to flight; like ↓ كَشِفُوا: the former is quasi-pass. of كَشَفَ, “ he routed, ”

&c.]. (K, voce جال in art. جول.) See also تِفْرِجَةٌ, in art. فرج.

كَشَّافٌ

: see Ham, p. 49, 1. 2.

مَكْشُوفٌ Uncovered, &c.; overt.

مُكَاشِفٌ [A discoverer, or revealer: thus I have rendered it voce عَيْنٌ.]

كلف

1 كَلِفَ بِهِ He became attached, addicted, given, or devoted, to it; or he attached, addicted, gave, or devoted, himself to it; (S, Msb, K, TA;) he loved it: (Msb, TA:) [he was fond of it:] he loved him, [or it,] vehemently. (TA.) b2: كَلَفٌ, inf. n. of كَلِفَ: [violent or intense love:] see حُبٌّ; and see a verse cited in the first paragraph of that art. 2 كَلَّفَ نَفْسَهُ شَيْئًا He tasked himself with a thing, as also ↓ تَكَلَّفَ شَيئًا. b2: كَلَّفَهُ أَمْرًا He tasked him to do a thing; imposed upon him the task of doing a thing. b3: So تَكْلِيفٌ The imposition of a task or duty. b4: A task; compulsory work; a duty imposed. b5: كَلَّفَهُ الأَمْرَ He imposed upon him the thing, or affair; syn. حَمَّلَهُ إِيَّاهُ. (Msb.) b6: كَلَّفَ نَفْسَهُ He put himself to trouble or inconvenience; like

↓ تَكَلَّفَ alone. b7: كَلَّفَهُ كَذَا He imposed upon him the task of doing, or procuring, or bringing, such a thing. b8: كَلَّفَهُ أَمْرًا He imposed upon him a thing, or an affair, in spite of difficulty, trouble, or inconvenience: (Msb:) he ordered him to do a thing that was difficult, troublesome, or inconvenient, to him: (S, K:) he made, required, or constrained, him to do a thing; exacted of him the doing a thing; meaning, a thing that was difficult, troublesome, or inconvenient to him: (Kull, 123; and the Lexicons, passim.) See جَتَّمَهُ. b9: تَكْلِيفٌ An imposition; a requisition: con straint, &c.5 تَكَلَّفَ أَمْرًا He [undertook a thing, or an affair, as imposed upon him: or] took, or imposed, upon himself, or undertook, a thing, or an affair, [as a task, or] in spite of difficulty, trouble, or inconvenience; (Msb;) syn. تَجَتَّمَهُ: (S, K:) he constrained, or tasked, or exerted, himself, or took pains, or made an effort, to do a thing; meaning, a thing that was difficult, troublesome, or inconvenient, to him: or he affected, as a self-imposed task, the doing of a thing. (The Lexicons, passim: see تغزّل: and see كَلَّفَهُ أَمْرًا.) b2: تكلّف صِفَةً He affected, or endeavoured to acquire, a quality. So in the explanations of verbs of the measure تَفَعَّلَ; as نَحَلَّمَ. (Sharh El-'Izzee, by Saad-ed-Keen.) b3: Also, He affected, or pretended to have, a quality, not having it. So in the explanations of verbs of the measure تَفَاعَلَ, as تَجَاهَلَ: (idem:) [and sometimes in verbs of the measure تَفَعَّلَ also, as تَكَسَّرَ &c.]. And تَكَلَّفَ alone, He exercised self-constraint, or put himself to trouble or inconvenience. b4: تَكَلَّفَ He affected what was not natural to him. b5: تَكَلَّفَ He used forced efforts to do a thing, and to appear to have a quality. He affected, or endeavoured to do or acquire, &c.; he constrained himself to do, &c.; he applied himself, as to a task, to do a thing.

تكلّف الشَّجَاعَةَ He made himself, or constrained himself to be, courageous; affected, or endeavoured to acquire, or characterize himself by, courage. b6: تكلّف الشَّجَاعَةَ also, He acted, or behaved, with forced courage; endeavoured to be courageous. b7: تكلّف فِى عَرَبِيَّتِهِ He used a forced, or affected, manner in his Arabic speech. b8: تَكَلُّفٌ A straining of a point in lexicology. b9: تَعَقَّلَ signifies He affected or endeavoured to acquire, intelligence; explained by تكلّف العَقْلَ: and تَعَاقَلَ, he pretended to be intelligent, not being really so. (S, art. عقل.) تَكَلُّفٌ in a verb of the measure تَفَعَّلَ is as above explained, signifying a desire for the existence of an attribute in one's self: in a verb of the measure تَفَاعَلَ it is different, and means the pretending to be or to do something which in reality one is not or does not; as in the instance of تَجَاهَلَ, he pretended to be ignorant, not being so in reality. (Sharh El-'Izzee, by Saad-ed-Deen.) تَكَلَّفَ كَذَا He did so purposely. b10: تَكَلَّفَ He tasked himself. b11: تَكَلَّفَ القَىْءَ He vomited intentionally. (TA, art. قىء.) كَلَفٌ [A discolouration of the face, by] a thing that comes upon the face resembling sesame; [by freckles, accord. to present usage:] and a dingy redness that comes upon the face. (S, K.) كُلْفَةٌ A difficulty, or difficult affair, or a duty, or an obligation, that one imposes upon himself; (S, K;) or a thing imposed upon one as difficult, troublesome, or inconvenient. (Msb.) See حَبٌّ. b2: [Constraint,] trouble, pain, or inconvenience. (MA.)