Lane's Arabic-English Lexicon

تحجّر

Root: حجر

Form: 5

Full Definition

تحجّرV He straitened him, and made [a thing] unlawful to him, or not allowable. And تحجّر مَا وَسَّعَهُ ٱللّٰهُ He made strait to himself what God made ample. And تَحَجَّرْتَ عَلَىَّ مَا وَسَّعَهُ ٱللّٰهُ Thou hast made strait and unlawful to me what God has made ample. And تحّجر وَاسِعًا He made strait what was ample: or he made strait what God made ample, and made it to be peculiar to himself, exclusively of others; as also and حجّرهُ .

def.2 See also 8:

def.3 and 10.
2 [Hence, perhaps,] تحجّر لِلْبُرْءِ It closed up, and consolidated, to heal.


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