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حَرَنَ

Root: حرن

Form: 1

Full Definition

حَرَنَI Present.T ـُ; and حَرُنَ; Verbal.Noun حِرَانٌ and حُرُونٌ, or the former is a simple subst., and the latter is the Verbal.Noun, and حُرَانٌ; said of a horse or similar beast, He was, or became, restive, or refractory, and, when vehemently running, stopped: or stopped, and was restive, or refractory: or stopped when one desired to call into action his power of running: said peculiarly of a solid-hoofed animal: or, accord. to Lh, one says also حرنت النَّاقَةُ, meaning the she-camel stood still, and would not move from her place: and حِرَانٌ is used by AO in relation to a she-camel. And حَرَنَ, Verbal.Noun حُرُونٌ i. q. تَأَخَّرَ [He went back or backwards, drew back, receded, &c.].
2 حَرَنَ بِالمَكَانِ, Verbal.Noun حُرُوُنَةٌ, [perhaps a mistranscription for حُرُونٌ,] He kept, or clave, to the place, and did not quit it.
3 حَرَنَ فِى البَيْعِ He did not exceed nor fall short in selling.

def.2 حَرَنَ القُطْنَ He separated and loosened the cotton [by means of a bow and a kind of wooden mallet, by striking the string of the bow with the mallet]; syn. نَدَفَهُ.


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