حَرِجَ

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حَرِجَI , Present.T ـَ Verbal.Noun حَرَجٌ, It became collected together: and, necessarily, became close, strait, or narrow: said of anything, it was, or became, close, strait, or narrow. One says of dust, حَرِجَ إِلَى حَائِطٍ, or سَنَدٍ, It rose, in a narrow place, and became collected [against a wall, or an acclivity or the like].
2 حَرِجَ صَدْرُهُ, Present.T and Verbal.Noun as above, His bosom became strait, or contracted; not expanded, or dilated, by reason of what was good. And حَرِجَ alone, Present.T and Verbal.Noun as above, He became disquieted, and contracted in bosom: and he became in doubt; he doubted; because doubt disquiets the mind.
3 Also حَرِجَ, Present.T and Verbal.Noun as above, [ He became straitened, or in difficulty: and particularly, by the commission of a sin, or crime: (see حَرَجٌ, below:) and hence, simply,] he committed a sin, a crime, or an act of disobedience for which he deserved punishment.
4 Also He looked, and was unable to move from his place by reason of fear and rage. And حَرِجَتِ العَيْنُ, Present.T ـَ Verbal.Noun as above, The eye became dazzled, (حَارَت, S, K, TA,) or sank in its socket, (غَارَت,) and its vision became straitened: or it did not turn about, nor wink, by reason of intent gazing.
5 Also, Present.T as above, and so the Verbal.Noun, It was, or became, forbidden, or prohibited, and attended with straitness, or difficulty. So in the saying, حَرِجَ عَلَىَّ ظُلْمُكَ The wronging of thee is forbidden, or prohibited, to me. And حَرِجَ عَلَيْهِ السَّحُورُ The meal termed سحور became forbidden, or prohibited, to him, namely, a man fasting, and attended with difficulty, by reason of the straitness of the time thereof. And حَرِجَتِ الصَّلَاةُ Prayer became forbidden, or prohibited, عَلَيْهَا to her [by reason of legal impurity, as is shown in the A].
6 حَرِجَ إِلَيْهِ He betook himself, or had recourse, to him, or it, for protection from a strait, or difficulty. And حَرِجَ إِلَى كَذَا وَ كَذَا He betook himself to such and such things.

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