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حَصَّهُ

Root: حص

Form: 1

Full Definition

حَصَّهُI , Present.T حَصُصَ Verbal.Noun حَصٌّ, He, or it, shaved it off; namely, hair. You say also, حَصَّتِ البّيْضَةُ رَأْسَهُ [The helmet rubbed off his hair: or] rendered his hair scanty.
2 He cut off from it, either with the مَشَارَة, [a word for which I do not find any apposite meaning, and which is perhaps a mistranscription,] or with the shears: whence, accord. to some, the word حِصَّةٌ.
3 حَصُّوا بَيْنَهُمْ رَحِمًا They cut, or severed, a tie of relationship between them.
4 جَآءَتْ سَنَةٌ فَحَصَّتْ كُلَّ شَىْءٍ [There came a dearth, or drought, or a year of drought, and] it did away with, or consumed, or destroyed, everything.
5 حَصَّ الجَلِيدُ النَّبْتَ The hoar-frost, or rime, nipped, shrunk, shrivelled, or blasted, (lit. burned, أَحْرَقَ, q. v.,) the plant, or plants, or herbage: a dial. var. of حَسَّ, q. v.

def.2 حَصَّ, quasi-pass. of حَصَّهُ in the first of the senses explained above: see 7, in two places.

def.3 حَصَّنِى مِنَ المَالِ كَذَا, Present.T حَصُصَ Such a thing became my portion of the property: or came to me, and became my portion: or came to me as my portion.

def.4 حَصَّ, Present.T حَصُصَ [contr. to rule, by which it should be حَصِصَ the verb being intrans., unless the sec. pers. pret. be حَصُصْتَ,] Verbal.Noun حَصٌّ, with which حُصَاصٌ, q. v., is syn., He ran vehemently and quickly: and حَصْحَصَ , Verbal.Noun حَصْحَصَةٌ, he was quick in going, and in journeying or pace.

def.5 حَصَّ is also syn. with حَصْحَصَ in all its meanings; like كَبَّ and كَبْكَبَ, and كَفَّ and كَفْكَفَ.


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