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4 اغلق البَابَ ذ , (S, Mgh, O, Msb, K, &c.,) inf. n. إِِغْلَاقٌ, (Mgh, K, &c.,) He made the door fast with a غَلَق, so that it could not be opened unless with a key; (Msb;) [i. e.] he locked the door; or bolted it: or he closed, or shut, it: (MA:) contr. of فَتَحَهُ: (O, K: *) and ↓ غَلَقَهُ , (S, O, Msb, K,) aor. غَلِقَ , (Msb, K,) inf. n. غَلْقٌ, (S, O, Msb,) signifies the same; (S, O, Msb, K;) mentioned by IDrd, on the authority of AZ; but rare; (Msb;) or a mispronunciation; (K;) or bad, (S, O, K,) and rejected; (S;) and غَلْقٌ is [said to be] the subst. from أَغْلَقَ; (S, Mgh, K;) whence the saying of a poet, “ وَبَابٍ إِِذَا مَا مَالَ لِلْغَلْقِ يَصْرِفُ
” [And a door that, when it turns to be locked, or closed, creaks]: (S, O, Mgh: *) and one says, الأَبْوَابَ ↓ غَلَّقْتُ [I locked, or closed, the doors]; the verb being with teshdeed to denote multiplicity [of the objects]; (Sb, S, TA;) [and] it is so to denote muchness [of the action] or intensiveness, (O,) [for] one says also, البَابَ ↓ غلّق , a chaste phrase; El-Isbahánee says that ↓ غَلَّقْتُ signifies I locked, or closed, (أَغْلَقْتُ,) many doors, or a door several times, or a door well or thoroughly; (TA;) and one says also أَغْلَقْتُ الأَبْوَابَ; (S, O, TA;) said by Sb to be a good Arabic phrase; (TA;) but this is rare; (O;) El-Farezdak says, “ مَا زِلْتُ أَفْتَحُ أَبْوَابًا وَأُغْلِقُهَا
حَتَّى أَتَيْتُ أَبَا عَمْرِو بْنَ عَمَّارِ
” [I ceased not to open doors and to close them until I came to Aboo-'Amr Ibn-'Ammár], meaning, as AHát says, Aboo-'Amr Ibn-El-'Alà. (S, O, TA.) ― -b2- [Hence] one says, أُغْلِقَ عَلَيْهِ الأَمْرُ (assumed tropical:) The affair was [as though it were closed against him; i. e., was made] strait to him. (TA. [See also 10.]) ― -b3- And [hence] إِِغْلَاقٌ signifies (assumed tropical:) The act of constraining: (Mgh, O, TA:) whence the saying in a trad., لَا طَلَاقَ وَلَا عَتَاقَ فِى إِِغْلَاقٍ (assumed tropical:) [There is no divorcement of a wife, nor liberation of a slave, in a case of constraint]; (Mgh, * O, TA;) for the agent is straitened in his affair, (Mgh, TA,) as though the door were locked, or closed, against him, and he were imprisoned. (TA.) One says, أَغْلَقَهُ عَلَى شَىْءٍ (assumed tropical:) He constrained him to do a thing. (IAar, Mgh, TA.) ― -b4- See also 1, last quarter, in two places. ― -b5- One says also, اغلق الرَّهْنَ (tropical:) He made, or declared, the pledge to be due [or a forfeit to its receiver]. (IAar, TA.) And in like manner one says of the arrows termed مَغَالِق, [pl. of مِغْلَقٌ,] تُغْلِقُ الخَطَرَ i. e. (tropical:) They make the stake, or wager, or thing playedfor, to be due [or a forfeit] to the player (O, TA) who wins, or is successful. (TA.) ― -b6- And اغلق القَاتِلَ (assumed tropical:) He delivered, or surrendered, the slayer to the heir, or next of kin, of the slain, that he might decide respecting his blood as he pleased. (O, TA.) And أُغْلِقَ فُلَانٌ بِجَرِيرَتِهِ (assumed tropical:) [Such a one was delivered, or surrendered, to be punished for his crime]. (TA.) And El-Farezdak says, “ أَسَارَى حَدِيدٍ أُغْلِقَتْ بِدِمَآئِهَا
” (assumed tropical:) [Captives in bonds of iron, delivered, or surrendered, to be punished for their bloods that they had shed]. (TA.) ― -b7- And أُغْلِقَ فُلَانٌ (assumed tropical:) Such a one was angered. (TA.) ― -b8- And الإِِغْلَاقُ [or rather إِِغْلَاقُ ظَهْرِ البَعِيرِ] signifies (assumed tropical:) The galling of the back of the camel by heavy loads: (K, TA:) whence the phrase مَنْ أَغْلَقَ ظَهْرَهُ [meaning (assumed tropical:) Such as has heavily burdened his back with sins], applied, in a trad., to one of those for whom the Prophet will intercede; the sins that have burdened the back of the man being likened to the weight of the load of the camel: [but] it is also said that الإِِغْلَاقُ was a practice of the Time of Ignorance; that when the camels of any one of them amounted to a hundred, أَغْلَقُوا بَعِيرًا, i. e. (assumed tropical:) They displaced the سَنَاسِن [pl. of سِنْسِنٌ, q. v.] of one of the vertebræ of a camel, and wounded his hump, in order that he might not be ridden, and that no use might be made of his back; and that camel was termed مُعَنًّى [q. v. in art. عنو]. (TA.)
An Arabic-English Lexicon. London. Williams and Norgate. 1863.
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