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1 حَزَقَ حزق , (S, K,) aor. حَزِقَ , inf. n. حَزْقٌ, (K,) He tied, or bound, a thing (S, K) with a rope: (S:) he tied, or bound, it strongly with a rope. (TA.) ― -b2- He bound, or bound round, a foot, or a man. (K, accord. to different copies.) ― -b3- He strung a bow. (TA.) ― -b4- He pulled, or drew, a bond, and a bow-string, hard, or vehemently. (K.) ― -b5- He, or it, squeezed, pressed, compressed, or pinched, a thing. (K.) You say of a tight boot, حَزَقَ رِجْلَهُ It compressed, or pinched, his foot. (K.) ― -b6- He straitened; made strait, or narrow. (TA.) ― -b7- حَزَقُوا بِهِ They surrounded, encompassed, or encircled, him, or it. (TA.) -A2- He broke wind: (K:) said of an ass. (TA.) Hence the saying of 'Alee, in disparagement of the schismatics, حَزْقُ عَيْرٍ حَزْقُ عَيْرٍ; meaning “ the case is not as ye assert: ” said by El-Mufaddal to be a proverbial phrase, applied in relation to a man who relates a piece of information that is not complete nor realized. (TA.)
An Arabic-English Lexicon. London. Williams and Norgate. 1863.

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