حَدٌّ
Root: حد
Full Definition
[Ye shall by no means worship any deity except your Creator; and if ye be invited to do so, say ye, There is an impediment in the way of it, or a prohibition against it]. And one says, دُونَ مَا سَأَلْتَ عَنْهُ حَدَدٌ There is an impediment, or a prohibition, in the way of that respecting which thou hast asked. And عَنْهُ There is nothing to prevent, or hinder, one from it. (L. [But this admits of another meaning, as will be seen, under the word حَدَدٌ, below.])لَا تَعْبُدَنَّ إِلٰهًا غَيْرَ خَالِقِكُمْ وَإِنْ دُعِيتُمْ فَقُولُوا دُونَهُ
2 [Hence,] A restrictive ordinance, or statute, of God, respecting things lawful and things unlawful: pl. حُدُودٌ. The حُدُود of God are of two kinds: first, those ordinances prescribed to men respecting eatables and drinkables and marriages &c.; what are lawful thereof and what are unlawful: the second kind, castigations, or punishments, prescribed, or appointed, to be inflicted upon him who does that which he has been forbidden to do; as the حدّ of the thief, which is the cutting off of his right hand for stealing a thing of the value of a quarter of a deenár or more; and that of the fornicator or fornicatress, which is flogging with a hundred stripes and banishment for a year; and that of the adulterer or adulteress, which is stoning; and that of the person who [falsely] charges an honest or a married woman with adultery, which is flogging with eighty stripes [as is also that of the person who has committed the crime of drunkenness]: the first kind are called حدود because they denote limits which God has forbidden to transgress: the second, because they prevent one's committing again those acts for which they are appointed as punishments; or because the limits thereof are determined: the latter kind of حدّ is also explained as being that [castigation, or punishment,] which prevents the criminal from returning to his crime, and prevents others from committing his crime. لَوْ رَأَيْتَهُ عَلَى حَدٍّ, in a saying of ' Omar, means Hadst thou seen him engaged in an affair requiring the infliction of the حدّ.
3 A bar, an obstruction, a partition, or a separation, between two things, or between two places, [or between two persons,] to prevent their commixture, or confusion, or the encroachment of one upon the other: an Verbal.Noun used as a subst.: pl. حُدُودٌ.
4 A limit, or boundary, of a land or territory: pl. as above. [Hence, جَاوَزَ الحَدَّ
5 [And hence, in logic,
6 The end, extremity, or utmost point, of a thing: pl. as above.
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8 The edge, or extremity of the edge, and point, of anything, as of a sword, a knife, a spear-head, and an arrow: the part of a sword [&c.] with which one cuts: pl. as above.
9 See also حِدَّةٌ, in four places.
10 [And hence, app.,] Arms, or weapons; as in the phrase ذَوُو حَدٍّ [Possessors of arms or weapons: or this may mean
11 A side, region, quarter, or tract.
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def.2 See also مَحْدُودٌ.
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