Lane's Arabic-English Lexicon

حَرِيدٌ

Root: حرد

Full Definition

حَرِيدٌ A man who separates himself from others; as also حَرِدٌ and حَرْدٌ and حَارِدٌ and مُتَحَرِّدٌ and حَرْدَانُ : fem. حَرِيدَةُ, not حَرْدَى: or a man who has left, or abandoned, or forsaken, his people, and removed from them: or a sole, or single, man: and مُنْحَرِدٌ signifies solitary, in the dial. of Hudheyl: pl. حُرْدَآءُ and حِرَادٌ. You say, حَلَّ حَرِيدًا He alighted and abode aside, or apart, from the people. And حَىٌّ حَرِيدٌ A tribe that separates itself from others, not mixing with them when departing and alighting, either on account of its might or on account of its smallness of number and its meanness of condition. And كَوْكَبٌ حَرِيدٌ and مُنْحَرِدٌ A solitary star. Aboo-Dhu-eyb says, كَأَنَّهُ كَوْكَبٌ فِى الجَوِّ [As though it were a solitary star in the region between the heaven and the earth]: but AA reads [منجرد,] with ج, explaining it in the same sense; and saying that the poet means سُهَيْلٌ [or Canopus]. [See also 7.] And they say, كُلُّ قَلِيلِ فِى كَثِيرٍ حَرِيدٌ [Everything little among much, or small in number among great in number, is solitary].


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