Lane's Arabic-English Lexicon

حَصَا

Root: حصو

Form: 1

Full Definition

حَصَاI , [Present.T يَحْصُو,] Verbal.Noun حَصْوٌ, i. q. مَنَعَ [as meaning He denied, or refused]: doubly trans., as in the phrase حَصَوْتَنِى حَقِّى [Thou deniedst me, or refusedst me, my right, or due].

def.2 حَصَيْتُهُ, Verbal.Noun حَصْىٌ, I cast a pebble, or small stone, at him, or it: or I smote him, or it, with a pebble, or small stone.

def.3 حَصِيَتِ الأَرْضُ, Present.T تَحْصَى, [Verbal.Noun حَصًى,] The land, or ground, abounded with pebbles, or small stones.

def.4 حَصِىَ [He had a stone in his bladder or kidneys: or] he had a hardening of the urine in the bladder so that it became like a pebble, or small stone: said of a man: part. n. مَحْصِىٌّ .


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