حَاقِنٌ

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حَاقِنٌ A man keeping in, or retaining, and collecting, his urine; from حَقِينٌ meaning “ milk collected in a skin: ” [suffering from retention of the urine:] having urine that distresses [by its quantity]: having much urine retained and collected: and حَقِنٌ signifies the same. Hence the saying, in a trad., لَا رَأْىَ لِحَاقِنٍ وَلَا حَاقِبٍ وَلَا حَازِقٍ No counsel, or advice, is possible to one who has much urine retained and collected, nor to one suffering suppression of the feces, nor to one who is pinched by a tight boot.
2 [Collecting grease, or melted grease, in a skin.] You say, أَنَا مِنْهُ كَحَاقِنِ الإِهَالَةِ I am a person skilled in it; because such a one does not collect the اهالة in a skin until he knows that it has cooled, lest the skin should be burnt.
3 A moon a little after or before the change (هِلَال) having its two extremities elevated, and its back decumbent. Hence the saying, هِلَالٌ وَاقِفٌ خَيْرٌ مِنْ هِلَالٍ حَاقِنٍ [A هلال erect is better, or more auspicious, than a هلال decumbent]. [See also أَذْفَقُ.]

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