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حَرِجٌ حرج and ↓ حَرَجٌ A strait, narrow, confined, or close, place: (TA:) or strait, narrow, confined, or close, in the utmost degree: (Zj, T:) or a strait, narrow, confined, or close, place, abounding with trees, (S, K,) and impenetrable to the pasturing animals: (S:) and ↓ حَرِيجٌ , also, applied to a place, signifies the same as حَرِجٌ. (TA.) ― -b2- صَدْرٌ حَرِجٌ (S, Msb, TA) and ↓ حَرَجٌ , (S, A, TA,) like وَحِدٌ and وَحَدٌ, and فَرِدٌ and فَرَدٌ, and دَنِفٌ and دَنَفٌ, (S,) A bosom strait, or contracted; (A, Msb, TA;) not expanded, or dilated, by reason of what is good. (TA.) يَجْعَلْ صَدْرَهُ ضَيِّقًا حَرِجًا or ↓ حَرَجًا , accord. to different readings, [in the Kur vi. 125,] (S,) is explained by I 'Ab as meaning He will make his bosom strait. (assumed tropical:) impenetrable to wisdom. (TA.) ― -b3- Also حَرِجٌ and ↓ حَرَجٌ A man having a strait, or contracted, bosom, which does not expand, or dilate, by reason of what is good: the former has a dual and a pl.; but the latter has only the sing. form, because it is [properly, or originally,] an inf. n.: Zj says that the former is a part. n., and that by the latter is meant ذُو حَرَجٍ. (TA.) ― -b4- And the former, (assumed tropical:) One who fears, or dreads, to venture upon an affair. (TA.) ― -b5- And (assumed tropical:) That seldom, or never, withdraws from fight: (K:) that will not be put to flight; as though it were difficult for him to find an excuse for being put to flight. (TA.) ― -b6- And Committing a sin, a crime, or an act of disobedience for which he deserves punishment; (Msb;) and so ↓ حَارِجٌ , which is thought by ISd to be after the manner of a rel. n., because it has no corresponding verb [of which it may be regarded as the part. n.; the regular part. n. being حَرِجٌ, as حَرِجَ is intrans.]. (TA.) ― -b7- Also (assumed tropical:) Abstaining from sin, or crime; and so ↓ حَرَجٌ and ↓ مُتَحَرِّجٌ . (TA.) [Thus bearing two contr. significations. See 5.] ― -b8- Also, and ↓ حَرَجٌ , (tropical:) Forbidden, or prohibited: so in the phrase, ظُلْمُكَ عَلَىَّ حَرِجٌ and حَرَجٌ (tropical:) [The wronging of thee is forbidden, or prohibited, to me]. (A.)
An Arabic-English Lexicon. London. Williams and Norgate. 1863.

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