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حَرَجَةٌ حرج حرجه حرجة (tropical:) A wood, or collection of trees; (S, K, TA;) so called because of their closeness: or dense and tangled trees: (TA:) or a thicket, or collection of dense and tangled trees, of the kind called سَلَم, into which no one can penetrate; (AHeyth, Az, TA;) or of the سَمُر and طَلْح and عَوْسَج and سَلَم and سِدْر; or of the سِدْر and olive and other trees: or a place in a wood where trees are dense and tangled, extending as far as a stone's throw: and also a tree which the pasturing animals cannot reach: (TA:) pl. ↓ حَرَجٌ (S, K) [or rather this is a coll. gen. n., of which حَرَجَةٌ is the n. un.,] and حَرَجَاتٌ (S, A) and حِرَاجٌ (S) and [of pauc.] أَحْرَاجٌ: (A, TA:) or ↓ حَرَجٌ signifies a place in which is a collection of trees, and where they are close together. (A.) ― -b2- Also (tropical:) A collection of camels: (S, K, TA:) a hundred camels: (ISd, TA:) pl. [or rather coll. gen. n.] ↓ حَرَجٌ . (K.)
An Arabic-English Lexicon. London. Williams and Norgate. 1863.

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