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مُحَرَّمٌ محرم [Forbidden, prohibited, or made un lawful: and made, or pronounced, sacred, or in violable, or entitled to reverence or respect or honour]. It is said in a trad., أَمَا عَلِمْتَ أَنَّ الصُّورَةَ مُحَرَّمَةُ, i. e. [Knowest thou not that the face is] forbidden to be beaten? or that it has a title to reverence or respect or honour? (TA.) ― -b2- المُحَرَّمُ The first of the months (S, Msb, K, * TA) of the year (Msb) of the Arabs [since the age of pagan ism]; (TA;) the article ال being prefixed because it is originally an epithet; but accord. to some, it is not prefixed to the name of any other month; or, accord. to some, it may be prefixed to صفر and شوّال: (Msb:) and [in the age of paganism, the seventh month, also called] شَهْرُ ا@للّٰهِ الأَصَبُّ (K, TA.) [الاصبّ being app. a dial. var. of الأَصَمُّ,] i. e. رَجَبٌ; [for] Az says, the Arabs used to call the month of رَجَب in the age of paganism, الأَصَمُّ and المُحَرَّمُ; and he cites the saying of a poet, “ أَقَمْنَا بِهَا شَهْرَىْ رَبِيعٍ كِلَاهُمَا
وَشَهْرَىْ جُمَادَى وَا@سْتَحَلُّوا المُحَرَّمَا
” [We stayed in it during the two months of Rabeea, both of them, and the two months of Jumádà; and they made El-Moharram to be profane; app. by postponing it, as the pagan Arabs often did]: the Arabs called it thus because they did not allow fighting in it [unless they had postponed it]: (TA:) the pl. is مُحَرَّمَاتٌ (Msb, K) and مَحَارِمُ and مَحَارِيمُ. (K.) ― -b3- See also حَرَمٌ — مُحَرَّمٌ applied to a camel means Refractory, or untractable: (TA:) [or,] thus applied, [like عَرُوضٌ, q. v.,] submissive in the middle part, [but] difficult to be turned about, [i. e. stubborn in the head,] when turned about: (K: [in the CK, الذَّلُولُ الوَسَطُ is erroneously put for الذَّلُولُ الوَسَطِ: in my MS. copy of the K, الذَّلُولُ الوَسط:]) and with ة a she-camel not broken, or not trained: (TA:) or not yet completely broken or trained: (S, TA:) and مُحَرَّمَةُ الظَّهْرِ a she-camel that is refractory, or untractable; not broken, or not trained: in this sense heard by Az from the Arabs. (TA.) ― -b4- (tropical:) A skin not tanned: (K:) or not completely tanned: (S:) or tanned, but not made soft, and not thoroughly done. (TA.) ― -b5- (tropical:) A new whip: (K:) or a whip not yet made soft. (S, A, TA.) ― -b6- (tropical:) An Arab of the desert rude in nature or disposition, chaste in speech, that has not mixed with people of the towns or villages. (TA.) ― -b7- (assumed tropical:) The part of the nose that is soft in the hand. (K.)
An Arabic-English Lexicon. London. Williams and Norgate. 1863.

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