حَرِيسَةٌ

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حَرِيسَةٌ What is guarded, kept, preserved, or taken care of.
2 A thing stolen: or a sheep, or goat, that is stolen by night: of the measure فَعِيلَةٌ in the sense of the measure مَفْعُولَةٌ: hence, حَرِيسَةُ الجَبَلِ a sheep, or goat, that is overtaken by the night before its return to its nightly resting-place, and is stolen from the mountain: or a sheep, or goat, that is stolen, of those that are guarded, or kept, in the mountain: or, as some say, from حَارِسٌ applied ironically to a thief: pl. حَرَائِسُ Hence the saying, لَا قَطْعَ فِى حَرِيسَةِ الجَبَلِ [There shall be no amputation of the hand for the sheep, or goat, that is stolen by night from the mountain]. IF says that there are two explanations of the expression حريسة الجبل: some make it to signify theft, or the thing stolen, (السَّرِقَةُ,) itself: others make the meaning to be, that there shall be no amputation for [stealing] what is guarded, or kept, in the mountain, because it is not a place well protected: ISk says that الحَرِيسَةُ signifies السَّرِقَةُ.
3 A wall of stones, made for sheep, or goats, to guard them.

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