حجر

حَجَرَ

To prevent, restrain, withhold, or forbid; specifically, to place someone under legal interdiction from freely disposing of property.

The general verb takes the object of prevention; the legal construction حَجَرَ عَلَيْهِ concerns restriction of a person's control over property.

• Lane · entry 13566

حَجَّرَ

To mark off or make an enclosure around land.

Used for establishing a boundary or demarcation around a tract.

• Lane · entry 13567

حَجَّرَ

To cauterize or brand a circular mark around an animal's eye.

The action is performed with a circular cauterizing instrument and is attested especially of camels or other beasts.

• Lane · entry 13567

حَجَّرَ

Of the moon, to become surrounded by a thin ring or halo.

A conventional description of a visible circular formation around the moon.

• Lane · entry 13567

تَحَجَّرَ

To make narrow, restricted, or unlawful what was ample; to appropriate something exclusively to oneself.

The construction may describe making God's ample provision narrow to oneself or making something unavailable to others.

• Lane · entry 13568

تَحَجَّرَ

Of a wound, to close and consolidate as it heals.

A specialized intransitive use describing the wound's contraction and healing.

• Lane · entry 13568

اِحْتَجَرَ

To make an enclosure for oneself, especially an enclosure for camels.

The enclosure is a حُجْرَة or bounded space made for the speaker's own use.

• Lane · entry 13569

اِحْتَجَرَ

To mark off land in order to confine it and prevent others from encroaching.

The verb denotes claiming and protecting a delimited tract by a land-mark.

• Lane · entry 13569

اِحْتَجَرَ بِهِ

To seek protection or shelter through someone or something.

The object of بِهِ is treated as a means of defence or refuge, including seeking God's protection from the devil.

• Lane · entry 13569

اِحْتَجَرَ

To put or hold an object in one's bosom or lap.

Attested in the construction اِحْتَجَرَ اللَّوْحَ, placing a tablet in the حِجْر.

• Lane · entry 13569

اِسْتَحْجَرَ

To become stone, hard, or stone-like; of clay, to harden into baked brick.

Used of material undergoing hardening or becoming like stone.

• Lane · entry 13570

اِسْتَحْجَرَ

To become emboldened or encouraged, or to embolden oneself against someone.

A rare figurative use, attested with عَلَيْهِ for the person against whom courage is taken.

• Lane · entry 13570

حَنْجَرَ

To slaughter someone by cutting the throat.

The verb is connected with the حَنْجَرَة, the throat or windpipe.

• Lane · entry 13571

حَجْر

The bosom, lap, or area between the arms and beneath the armpit; by extension, a person's protection and care.

The same branch occurs in expressions for being in someone's protection or growing up under someone's care.

• Lane · entry 13572

حَجْر

An extended, rounded or gibbous tract of sand.

A geographical description of a sandy formation.

• Lane · entry 13572

حِجْر

A walled garden or enclosed garden whose use is reserved from the public.

The meaning emphasizes exclusion or prohibition of public access.

• Lane · entry 13574

حِجْر

The enclosed space or surrounding structure known as the Ḥaṭīm beside the Kaaba.

The term is applied either to the space enclosed by the curved wall or, in some usage, to the wall itself.

• Lane · entry 13574

حِجْر

The anterior pudendum of a man or woman.

An anatomical usage with variant forms recorded in the lexical tradition.

• Lane · entry 13574

حِجْر

A mare, especially a female horse kept for breeding.

The specialized breeding sense is associated with preserving the mare's womb for select stallions; the plural is used more commonly than the singular in that specialization.

• Lane · entry 13574

حِجْر

Kinship or relationship that creates a marriage prohibition; nearness in kindred.

The meaning treats kinship as a protected bond that bars a prohibited marriage.

• Lane · entry 13574

حَجَر

Sand, by metonymic extension from stone or stony ground.

A figurative or regional use, distinct from the literal stone sense.

• Lane · entry 13575

أَهْلُ الحَجَر

The people of the desert who live in stony or sandy country.

A fixed expression contrasting the inhabitants of stony terrain with أهل المدر, people of settled earthen dwellings.

• Lane · entry 13575

الحَجَر

The Black Stone of the Kaaba.

In the fixed designation الحَجَرُ الأَسْوَدُ, and sometimes simply الحَجَرُ, the noun denotes the sacred stone.

• Lane · entry 13575

حَجَر

In idiomatic expressions, an unequalled person, a remarkably shrewd or formidable opponent, or a person matched with his like.

These are figurative expressions built on the firmness or force associated with a stone; they are not literal stone meanings.

• Lane · entry 13575

الحَجَر

In the expression لِلْعَاهِرِ الحَجَرُ, disappointment or prohibition for the fornicator or adulterer.

The expression is an idiom; an allusion to stoning is reported as one interpretation but is not required for the general meaning.

• Lane · entry 13575

الحَجَر

Gold and silver, collectively called the two stones.

A specialized lexical use in which الحَجَرَانِ denotes the two precious metals together.

• Lane · entry 13575

حَجِر

Stony or abounding in stones.

Used adjectivally of land or terrain, as in أرض حَجِرَة.

• Lane · entry 13576

حُجُر

The flesh surrounding the fingernail or toenail.

A specialized anatomical plural noun.

• Lane · entry 13577

حَجْرَة

A severe year that confines people to their tents or homes and forces them to slaughter valuable camels for food.

A specialized designation for a year of hardship and confinement.

• Lane · entry 13578

حَجْرَة

A side, adjacent tract, or flank; hence to sit or travel aside.

Used of the sides of a road or army, an adjacent quarter, and figuratively of withdrawing to one side.

• Lane · entry 13578

حُجْرَة

An enclosure or pen for camels.

This is an animal enclosure sense, distinct from the chamber sense used in the Quranic plural حُجُرَات.

• Lane · entry 13579

حُجْرِيّ

Rightful or due; a thing or quality regarded as sacred or inviolable.

An adjectival derivative expressing a protected or specially entitled status.

• Lane · entry 13581

حَاجِر

A water-retaining depression, basin, or enclosing brink; also a wall that retains water.

It may denote low ground with raised borders, a fertile water-retaining place, or a built wall between houses that holds water.

• Lane · entry 13583

حَاجُور

A refuge or means of protection and defence.

Used for something one grasps as protection against another.

• Lane · entry 13584

حَنْجَرَة

The throat, windpipe, larynx, or the passage for breath and food.

The term covers the throat region and its variously specified anatomical parts, including the laryngeal passage.

• Lane · entry 13586

حُنْجُور

A small receptacle, including a small glass flask or bottle for perfumes or scented powder.

A specialized container sense, distinct from the anatomical حَنْجَرَة.

• Lane · entry 13587

مَحْجِر

A tract surrounding a town or village, especially a reserved pasture or territory into which others may not enter.

The term can denote a ruler's privately reserved grazing tract or a bounded area protected from encroachment.

• Lane · entry 13589

مَحْجِر

A walled garden or a low, pasture-rich place with water.

The meaning includes an enclosed orchard or a depressed, well-watered grazing place.

• Lane · entry 13590

مَحْجِر العَيْن

The region around or beneath the eye, including the part visible beyond a veil; by extension, the eye socket or eye itself.

The term may refer to the lower or upper eyelid region, the surrounding bone, or the visible eye area beneath a veil or turban.

• Lane · entry 13590

مَحْجُور عَلَيْهِ

A person placed under judicial prohibition from using or disposing of property freely.

A legal term for interdiction against consuming, wasting, ruining, or otherwise controlling one's property.

• Lane · entry 13592