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حُورِفَ

Root: حرف

Form: 3

Full Definition

حُورِفَIII He was debarred from the means of subsistence; because he of whom this is said is aloof (بِحَرْفٍ) from the means of subsistence. And حُورِفَ كَسْبُ فُلَانٍ Such a one was made to experience difficulty in his buying and selling, and was straitened in his means of subsistence; as though his means of subsistence were turned away from him: or he had his gain, or earnings, turned away from him. It is said in a trad. of Ibn-Mes'ood, مَوْتُ المُؤْمِنِ عَرَقُ الجَبِينِ تَبْقَى عَلَيْهِ البَقِيَّةِمِنَ الذُّنُوبِ فَيُحَارِفُ بِهَا عِنْدَ المَوْتِ, i. e. [The death of the believer is accompanied with sweating of the side of the forehead: some sins remain chargeable against him, and] he is made to experience difficulty by them [in dying], in order that his sins may be diminished.

def.2 مُحَارَفَةٌ has also a meaning like مُفَاخَرَةٌ: Sá'ideh says, فَقَدْ عَلِمُوا فِى الغَزْوِ كَيْفَ نُحَارِفُ [And they certainly know, in warfare, how we vie for superiority in glory: or] accord. to Skr, it means how we deal with them; as when one says to a man, What is thy حِرْفَة and thy lineage? [or the meaning may be how we requite; for]

def.3 حارفهُ بِسُوْءٍ signifies He requited him for evil that he had done. And it is said in a trad., إِنَّ العَبْدِ لَيُحَارَفُ عَنْ عَمَلِهِ الخَيْرَ أَوْ الشَّرَّ, i. e. [Verily the servant] shall be requited [for his deed; the good I mean, or the evil]. And احرف also signifies He requited for good or evil.

def.4 مُحَارَفَةٌ signifies also The measuring a wound with the مِحْرَاف, i. e. the probe.


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