Lane's Arabic-English Lexicon

حجّرهُ

Root: حجر

Form: 2

Full Definition

حجّرهُII : see 5.
2 حجّر حَوْلَ أَرْضِهِ [He made a bound, or an enclosure, around his land].
3 حجّر عَيْنَ الَعِيرِ, Verbal.Noun تَحْجِيرٌ, He burned a mark round the eye of the camel with a circular cauterizing instrument: and حجّر عَيْنَ الدَّابَّةِ, and حَوْلَهَا, [i. e. حَوْلَ عَيْنِهَا, like as is said in the A,] he burned a mark round the eye of the beast.

def.2 حَجَّرَ البَعِيرُ The camel had a mark burned round each of his eyes with a circular cauterizing instrument. (K. [Perhaps this may be a mistake for حُجِّرَ البَعِيرُ: or for حَجَّرَ البَعِيرَ, meaning he burned a mark round each of the eyes of the camel &c.: but see what follows.])
2 حجّر القَمَرُ, Verbal.Noun as above, The moon became surrounded by a thin line, which did not become thick: and became surrounded by a halo in the clouds.


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