Lane's Arabic-English Lexicon

Includes Hans Wehr and al-Mufradat — All in One Search

حَرِمٌ

Root: حرم

Full Definition

حَرِمٌ : see حَرَامٌ, with which it is syn. Zuheyr says, وَ إِنْ خَلِيلٌ يَوْمَ مَسْأَلَةٍ يَقُولُ لَا غَائِبٌ مَالِى وَ لَا حَرِمُ [And if a friend come to him, on a day of solicitation, he says, My cattle are not, or my property is not, absent, nor forbidden, or refused]: [in the S, this is cited as an ex. of حَرِمٌ as syn. with حِرْمَانٌ, which is an Verbal.Noun of حَرَمَهُ, q. v.: but] IB says that حَرِم means مَمْنُوع: يقول in this verse is marfooa though commencing an apodosis, because meant to be understood as put before [in the protasis], accord. to Sb; as though the poet said, يَقُولُ إِنْ أَتَاهُ خَلِيلٌ: accord. to the Koofees, it is so by reason of فَ understood.
Lane's Lexicon + Hans Wehr + Mufradat

Three dictionaries. One search.

"The product of over thirty years of unrelenting labor — to this day supreme in the field of Arabic lexicography."

47,000+ classical entries Root-based navigation Full text search Hyperlinked definitions
Try Now

Trusted by researchers at University of Michigan, Duke, Alberta & more