حلق

حَلْقًا / حَلْقَى

In the imprecation عَقْرًا حَلْقًا or عَقْرَى حَلْقَى, an expression associated with bereavement and the shaving of a woman's hair.

The authorities report variant explanations, including wishing throat pain and describing an unlucky or troublesome woman; these are interpretations of the idiom rather than separate ordinary meanings of the verb.

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اِحْلِقِي وَقُومِي

A conventional expression for trial, trouble, distress, or calamity.

Used in the phrase بَيْنَهُمُ اِحْلِقِي وَقُومِي and related expressions.

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حَلَقَ

To shear or remove the hair of a goat.

Classically distinguished from جَزَّ, which is used especially for shearing sheep's wool.

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حَلَقَ

To peel, scrape, pare, or strip away a thing's superficial part.

A transitive extension of removing an outer covering, synonymous with قَشَرَ in this use.

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حَلَقَ

To destroy or cut off completely, as a razor removes hair.

Figurative or extended usage; the object is understood from context.

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حَلَقَ / حَلِقَ

To strike or injure the throat, or to suffer pain or a complaint in the throat.

The verb may be transitive when someone is made to suffer throat pain and intransitive when a person suffers such pain.

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حَلَقَ

To fill a watering-trough or tank up to its throat or upper filling level.

A specialized transitive use with troughs and tanks.

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حَلَقَ

To make a thing according to a measure or proportion.

A lexical variant equated with خَلَقَ in this specialized usage.

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حَلَقَ / حَالِقٌ

Of an udder, to rise toward the belly and become contracted, with the milk becoming scant or withdrawn.

This usage has a contrastive counterpart in which the udder is full or abundantly milked.

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حَلَقَ / حَالِقٌ

Of an udder, to be full or large and abundant in milk.

The same lexical family is also reported with the opposite udder condition, namely contraction and scant milk.

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حَلْقَةٌ / حَلَقَ / حَلَّقَ

A ring, circle, loop, or circular formation; by extension a ring of people, a ring or link of mail, a rope loop, arms or armor, or a ring-shaped brand on camels.

The circular sense applies to objects, groups arranged in a ring, and marks or equipment made in a ring form. The associated Form II verb can mean to sit in circles or to put something into a ringed covering.

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حَلَّقَ

To draw or turn a circle.

A Form II action of producing a circular line or form.

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حَلَّقَ عَلَى

To cancel a person's stipend, pay, or allowance.

An idiomatic Form II construction, probably extended from drawing a line around a name.

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حَلَّقَ

Of the moon, to have a halo or ring around it.

A Form II usage describing a circular atmospheric appearance.

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حَلَّقَ

Of a bird, to soar and circle in flight.

Describes elevated circular movement through the air.

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حَلَّقَ / حَالِقٌ

To rise high or be overhead; a high or overtopping place or mountain.

Used of celestial bodies, elevated places, and high mountains; the plural may denote the open spaces between heaven and earth.

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حَلَّقَ بِبَصَرِهِ

To raise one's eyes toward the sky.

A Form II construction with the gaze directed upward.

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حَلَّقَ

To withdraw or diminish; of milk, to recede, and of water in a trough, to become scant or go away.

This is a Form II usage of liquids or stored water, distinct from the ordinary act of shaving.

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حَلَّقَتْ عُيُونُ الإِبِلِ

Of camels' eyes, to sink or become depressed in their heads.

A conventional description of the eyes' sunken appearance.

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حُلْقَانٌ / مُحَلِّقٌ

Of dates, to become ripe as far as a specified portion, commonly about two-thirds, or to begin ripening near the base.

The reports vary over whether the relevant portion is near the base or the two-thirds stage; partly ripe dates are included in the usage.

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حَلَّقَ بِهِ

Of a draught, to cause the belly to become inflated.

A specialized idiomatic use with a milk-and-water draught.

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حَلَّقَ بِالشَّيْءِ إِلَيْهِ

To throw or cast a thing to someone.

A Form II construction governing the recipient with إِلَى.

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اِنْحَلَقَ

Of hair, to come off as though it had been shaved.

An intransitive Form VII result, describing hair loss rather than the agent's shaving action.

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حَلْقَمَ

To cut or sever a person's throat or windpipe.

A specialized quadriliteral formation based on حُلْقُومٌ.

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حَلْقٌ

The fauces, throat, or front part of the neck; the place of slaughter in an animal.

Classical descriptions distinguish the fauces and throat from the windpipe, while noting overlap in ordinary usage.

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حَلْقٌ

The channel or part through which water runs in a vessel, watering-trough, or tank.

A figurative extension from the throat or passage of the body.

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حُلُوقٌ

Watercourses, valleys, or narrow passages of a land or road.

Plural usage extended from channels and constricted passages.

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حَلْقُ الجَوِّ

The upper region of the air.

A figurative spatial use of حَلْقٌ.

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حَلْقٌ / حَالِقٌ

Unlucky or destructive to others, as though stripping them away.

An extended evaluative use, also applied to a year or circumstance that destroys what it encounters.

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حُلْقٌ

Bereavement through the death of a child; by association, the shaving of the head in such mourning.

A noun used in a proverbial expression and connected with customary mourning practice.

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حِلْقٌ

Numerous cattle.

The metaphor is explained by the way grazing animals crop vegetation as shaving removes hair.

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حِلْقٌ

A king's signet ring; by extension, the authority or office conferred by it.

The associated expression can mean that someone was made a governor, commander, or similar official.

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حَلْقَةُ الرَّحِمِ / حَلْقَةُ الدُّبُرِ

A ring-like anatomical opening, including a ring of the womb or the anus.

Technical anatomical usage; the two rings of the womb are described in relation to its openings.

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حَلْقَةٌ

The upper portion or filling level of a vessel or watering-trough, commonly the part above half-full.

The reported extent ranges from the portion above half to the full level or somewhat less, depending on the vessel and authority.

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حَلْقِيٌّ

Faucial, guttural, or pertaining to the throat.

In grammatical terminology, حروف حلقية are the six guttural letters assigned to different parts of the throat.

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حَلَاقِ

Death, conceived as stripping people away.

An indeclinable epithet used in expressions such as the cup of death.

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حَلْقَةٌ

A single act or occurrence of shaving.

This nominal use denotes the act itself rather than the person who performs it.

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حَلِيقٌ

Shaven; having the hair removed, of a head, hair, beard, or she-goat.

An adjective describing the resulting state after shaving or shearing.

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حُلَاقَةٌ

Hair shorn from a goat.

A noun for the removed hair or the shearing product.

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حَالِقٌ

A shaver or shearer; specifically, one who shaves hair in connection with affliction or mourning.

Also applied to a head wound that scrapes skin from flesh, treated separately below.

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حَالِقَةٌ

A wound of the head that scrapes away the skin from the flesh.

A specialized term for a type of head wound.

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حَالِقٌ

Sharp or keen; of a knife, sword, person, or penetrating gaze.

The gaze usage describes looking intently or sharply.

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حَالِقٌ

Quick, swift, light, active, or agile.

An extended descriptive adjective for movement or bodily action.

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حَالِقٌ

Lean, slender, or lank.

A general bodily description, without restricting the referent to a particular animal.

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حَالِقٌ

A tendril or twining portion of a grapevine, colocynth, or similar plant.

The name is motivated by its circular or curling form.

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حَالِقَةٌ

A year of drought, barrenness, or dearth that destroys what it encounters.

A substantivized feminine adjective used of a destructive season or calamity.

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الحَالِقَةُ

The severing or abandonment of kinship; mutual wronging and evil-speaking; or conduct that destroys and cuts off religion.

A conventional moral and social usage, described as a destructive disease among peoples.

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مِحْلَقٌ

A razor or instrument used for shaving.

The noun names the implement rather than the act of shaving.

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مِحْلَقٌ

A very rough garment whose texture removes or abrades hair.

A figurative use based on the garment's hair-shaving roughness.

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المُحَلَّقُ

The place of head-shaving in Mina.

A place-name or geographical designation associated with the shaving rite.

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مُحَلِّقٌ

A vessel that is less than full.

A specialized descriptive participle for a vessel whose contents do not reach full capacity.

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مُحَلِّقٌ

Lean or emaciated, especially of sheep or goats.

An animal-specific adjectival use distinct from the broader adjective حَالِقٌ meaning lean or slender.

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مُحَلِّقٌ

A desert in which there is no water.

A substantivized or descriptive use of the active participle.

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حَوْلَقَ

To utter the formula لَا حَوْلَ وَلَا قُوَّةَ إِلَّا بِاللّٰهِ.

A lexicalized verb formed from the expression; another reported form is حَوْقَلَ.

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