Quranic root
حجز
ḥ · j · z
The root denotes placing a separation between two things, thereby preventing contact, movement, or action between them.
From interposing and holding apart, the lexical family develops meanings of barriers, restraint, mutual abstention, protective separation, waist-fastening, and related forms of attachment. The regional name al-Ḥijāz is likewise explained through its separating position.
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Forms in the Quran
The forms this root actually takes in the Quran. Select one to jump to its senses and examples.
حَاجِزٌ
ḥājizun
- Part of speech
- Noun · active participle
- Quran occurrences
- 2 occurrences
Selected examples are shown with the sense they illustrate — chosen to teach that sense, not the complete list of this form’s Quran occurrences.
A barrier or separating partition between two things.
In the Quran, used for the separator placed between two bodies of water in the expression وَجَعَلَ بَيْنَ الْبَحْرَيْنِ حَاجِزًا.
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- Lane · entry 13594
- Lane · entry 13609
Selected Quran examples
Quran 27:61word 14
“a barrier”
One who prevents, restrains, or wards off.
The plural active participle حَاجِزِينَ describes those who could prevent it; in 69:47 it qualifies أَحَدٌ, which is grammatically singular but construed in the plural sense.
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- Lane · entry 13594
Selected Quran examples
Quran 69:47word 6
“(who could) prevent (it)”
Occurrences in the Quran
Every place this root appears, in Quran order. The first few are shown here.
View all 2 occurrencesBroader Classical Arabic meanings
Recorded for this root in the Classical lexicons beyond its Quran usage. These are secondary to the Quran senses above.
Show 25 Classical meanings
حَجَزَ
In a figurative idiom, a person's condition or standing cannot be concealed.
An idiomatic tropical usage, not the ordinary concrete sense of preventing or separating.
- Lane · entry 13594
حَجَّزَ
To fence or partition something with a wall or other barrier.
Attested in the passive construction of a roof that has not been fenced around with a wall.
- Lane · entry 13595
مُحَاجَزَةٌ
Reciprocal prevention of fighting; mutual abstention from combat and the making of peace.
Used of opposing parties or troops, especially in the conventional contrast between محاجزة and مناجزة.
- Lane · entry 13596
- Lane · entry 13598
تَحَاجَزَ
To separate or part from one another; to mutually withhold, forsake, or relinquish one another.
Used of people or groups; in an imperative expression it can mean “separate the people” or “withhold yourself.”
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- Lane · entry 13598
- Lane · entry 13600
- Lane · entry 13607
تَحَاجَزَ
To take hold of one another by the waistbands; figuratively, to seek aid, refuge, or protection from one another.
A derived reciprocal construction connected with حُجْزَةٌ, the waistband or grasping place.
- Lane · entry 13598
انْحَجَزَ
To be restrained or held back; to restrain oneself, refrain, forbear, or abstain.
A quasi-passive or reflexive realization of the basic preventing sense.
- Lane · entry 13599
- Lane · entry 13607
انْحَجَزَ
To leave, forsake, or relinquish something.
Used with عَنْهُ in the cited construction.
- Lane · entry 13599
احْتَجَزَ
To defend oneself or protect oneself by means of something.
The construction احتجز به takes the protecting means with بِـ.
- Lane · entry 13600
احْتَجَزَ
To carry something in the waistband.
A concrete clothing-related use of the derived verb.
- Lane · entry 13600
احْتَجَزَ
To tie or wrap an izār around the waist, bringing its ends together.
Used with بِإِزَارِهِ for fastening or wrapping the waist garment.
- Lane · entry 13600
احْتَجَزَ
To be encompassed or bounded by surrounding terrain or other boundaries.
Attested of a place surrounded by stony tracts and mountains.
- Lane · entry 13600
احْتَجَزَ
To come to the province of al-Ḥijāz.
A lexicalized geographic usage of the derived verb.
- Lane · entry 13600
حَجْزٌ
A person who abstains from what is unlawful or indecorous.
The related expression طَيِّبُ الحُجْزَةِ carries the same moral characterization, especially concerning sexual propriety.
- Lane · entry 13601
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حَجْزَةٌ
A severe year that confines people to their tents or houses and forces them to slaughter valuable camels for food.
A rare lexical usage attested in poetic evidence.
- Lane · entry 13603
حُجْزَةُ الإِزَارِ
The part of an izār where it is folded or tied around the waist; by extension, the waist garment itself.
Also used of the corresponding upper fold or waistband of trousers.
- Lane · entry 13604
شِدَّةُ الحُجْزَةِ
Patience, endurance, or hardiness in difficulty.
A figurative idiom derived from the firmness of a waistband or fastening.
- Lane · entry 13604
نَاتِئُ الحُجْزَةِ
Full or protuberant in the flanks.
A figurative bodily description; the condition is presented as a fault in the cited usage.
- Lane · entry 13604
حُجْزَةٌ
A means of seeking another's aid, refuge, or protection by taking hold of the person's waistband.
Also used figuratively of laying hold of a means of access or nearness to God.
- Lane · entry 13604
حُجْزَةٌ
Figurative attachment or ordered linkage: words may be connected in sequence, and persons or kin may be described as attached to one another.
Attested in idioms about coherent speech and the attachment of kin.
- Lane · entry 13604
حِجْزَةٌ
A mode, manner, or form of tying an izār.
A clothing term distinct from the place or part where the garment is tied.
- Lane · entry 13605
حِجَازٌ
A rope fastened from a camel's hip to its pastern.
A concrete nominal usage from which a related sense of joining or gathering is conceived.
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حَاجِزٌ
A person or group who prevents someone from obtaining a right; alternatively, defenders who mediate between people and decide disputes justly.
A specialized social and legal usage with two reported interpretations; it is distinct from the general Quranic sense of a preventer.
- Lane · entry 13609
مَحْجُوزٌ
Hit or hurt at the part of the body where the izār is tied.
A passive-participial bodily description.
- Lane · entry 13610
مُحْتَجَزٌ
The bodily place or part where the izār is tied.
A noun for the waist-fastening location, not the act of fastening itself.
- Lane · entry 13611
مُحْتَجِزٌ
Having the waist bound with an izār.
The feminine form is also used of a woman whose garment is tied over the awrah.
- Lane · entry 13612
Cautions
Points that affect how this root should be read.
The Quranic occurrence حَاجِزِينَ is a plural active participle used in the construction وَمَا أَنتَ عَلَيْهِم بِجَبَّارٍ وَمَا أَنتَ عَلَيْهِم بِجَبَّارٍ? No modern location has been inferred from Lane citation notation; the supplied QAC locations alone are used for Quran examples.