حَصَانٌ

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حَصَانٌ and and and حَصْنَآءُ and and , applied to a woman, Continent, or chaste; or abstaining from what is not lawful nor decorous, or from that which induces suspicion or evil opinion: or married; having a husband: or حَصَانٌ has both of these significations: and accord. to Th, , with fet-h only, has the latter signification; and means caused to be continent or chaste, or to abstain from that which is unlawful or indecorous, by her husband: and this epithet is also applied to a woman emancipated: and to one having become a Muslimeh: [certain particular applications of have been implicatively shown above: see 4:] the pl. of حَصَانٌ is حُصُنٌ and حَصَانَاتٌ: and the pl. of and is حَوَاصِنُ and حَاصَنَاتٌ: the former of which (حواصن) also signifies pregnant, applied to women: the pl. محصنات, in the first instance of its occurrence in ch. iv. [verse 28] of the Kur, is read by all , meaning having husbands; because when such women are made captives, their marriage-tie is cut: but in other instances, some read thus, understanding it in the sense last explained; and others read , as meaning that have become Muslimehs: in the Kur iv. 29, it means free women: and in the Kur v. 7, continent, or chaste, women: is the more common in the language of the Arabs.
2 حَصَانٌ also signifies A pearl, or a large pearl; syn. دُرَّةٌ: because it is protected in the interior of the shell that contains it.

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