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حَدٌّ حد Prevention, hinderance, an impediment, a withholding, restraint, a debarring, inhibition, forbiddance, prohibition, or interdiction; (S, Mgh, L, Msb, K, TA;) as also ↓ حَدَدٌ : (S, L, K:) and, both words, a repelling, or an averting. (K. [See 1.]) A poet says, (S,) namely, Zeyd Ibn-' Amr Ibn-Nufeyl, (TA,) “ لَا تَعْبُدَنَّ إِِلٰهًا غَيْرَ خَالِقِكُمْ
↓ وَإِِنْ دُعِيتُمْ فَقُولُوا دُونَهُ حَدَدُ
” [Ye shall by no means worship any deity except your Creator; and if ye be invited to do so, say ye, There is an impediment in the way of it, or a prohibition against it]. (S, TA.) And one says, ↓ دُونَ مَا سَأَلْتَ عَنْهُ حَدَدٌ (A, * L) There is an impediment, or a prohibition, in the way of that respecting which thou hast asked. (L.) And عَنْهُ ↓ لَاحَدَدَ There is nothing to prevent, or hinder, one from it. (L. [But this admits of another meaning, as will be seen, under the word حَدَدٌ, below.]) ― -b2- [Hence,] A restrictive ordinance, or statute, of God, respecting things lawful and things unlawful: pl. حُدُودٌ. (L.) The حُدُود of God are of two kinds: first, those ordinances prescribed to men (T, Mgh, L) respecting eatables and drinkables and marriages &c.; what are lawful thereof and what are unlawful: (T, L:) the second kind, castigations, or punishments, prescribed, or appointed, to be inflicted upon him who does that which he has been forbidden to do; (T, Mgh, L;) as the حدّ of the thief, which is the cutting off of his right hand for stealing a thing of the value of a quarter of a deenár or more; and that of the fornicator or fornicatress, which is flogging with a hundred stripes and banishment for a year; and that of the adulterer or adulteress, which is stoning; and that of the person who [falsely] charges an honest or a married woman with adultery, which is flogging with eighty stripes [as is also that of the person who has committed the crime of drunkenness]: (T, L:) the first kind are called حدود because they denote limits which God has forbidden to transgress: the second, because they prevent one's committing again those acts for which they are appointed as punishments; (T, Mgh, L;) or because the limits thereof are determined: (Mgh:) the latter kind of حدّ is also explained as being that [castigation, or punishment,] which prevents the criminal from returning to his crime, and prevents others from committing his crime. (L, K. *) لَوْ رَأَيْتَهُ عَلَى حَدٍّ, in a saying of ' Omar, means Hadst thou seen him engaged in an affair requiring the infliction of the حدّ. (Mgh.) ― -b3- A bar, an obstruction, a partition, or a separation, (S, A, Mgh, L, Msb, * K,) between two things, (S, A, L, K,) or between two places, (Mgh,) [or between two persons,] to prevent their commixture, or confusion, or the encroachment of one upon the other: (L:) an inf. n. used as a subst.: (Mgh:) pl. حُدُودٌ. (L.) ― -b4- A limit, or boundary, of a land or territory: pl. as above. (L.) [Hence, جَاوَزَ الحَدَّ (assumed tropical:) He, or it, exceeded the proper, due, or common, limit; was excessive, immoderate, beyond measure, enormous, inordinate, or exorbitant.] ― -b5- [And hence, in logic, (assumed tropical:) A definition.] It is applied by the learned to the حَقِيقَة of a thing, [or that by being which a thing is what it is,] because it is [a term] collective and restrictive. (Mgh.) ― -b6- The end, extremity, or utmost point, of a thing: (S, L, K:) pl. as above. (L.) ― -b7- [(assumed tropical:) The point, or verge, of an event.] The saying مُسْلِمَةٌ مَوْقُوفَةٌ عَلَى حَدِّ مَحْرَمٍ means (assumed tropical:) A Muslimeh brought to the point, or verge, of being subjected to an infidel's lying with her: and in like manner, مُسْلِمٌ مَوْقُوفٌ عَلَى حَدِّ كُفْرٍ (assumed tropical:) A Muslim brought, by beating or slaughter, to [the point, or verge, of] denying God. (Mgh.) ― -b8- The edge, or extremity of the edge, (S, L,) and point, (L,) of anything, (S, L,) as of a sword, a knife, a spear-head, and an arrow: (L:) the part of a sword [&c.] with which one cuts: (MF:) pl. as above. (L.) ― -b9- See also حِدَّةٌ, in four places. ― -b10- [And hence, app.,] Arms, or weapons; as in the phrase ذَوُو حَدٍّ [Possessors of arms or weapons: or this may mean (tropical:) persons endowed with valour]. (Ham p. 143.) ― -b11- A side, region, quarter, or tract. (L.) ― -b12- (assumed tropical:) Station, standing, rank, condition, or the like; syn. مَرْتَبَةٌ. (KL.) ― -b13- [(assumed tropical:) A case: as when a noun is said to be فِى حَدِّ الرَّفْعِ in the nominative case. ― -b14- And (assumed tropical:) A class, or category: as when a verb is said to be مِنْ حَدِّ ضَرَبَ of the class, or category, of ضَرَبَ.] ― -b15- [(tropical:) A quarter of the year.] You say, أَقَامَ حَدَّ الرَّبِيعِ (tropical:) He remained, stayed, or abode, during the quarter of the ربيع. (A.) -A2- See also مَحْدُودٌ.
An Arabic-English Lexicon. London. Williams and Norgate. 1863.

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