حَدَّادٌ
Root: حد
Full Definition
حَدَّادٌ
A door-keeper: so called because he prevents men from entering.
2 A keeper of a prison: because he prevents persons from going out, or because he works the iron of the shackles.
3 The person who inflicts the punishment termed حَدٌّ: so in the saying, أُجْرَةٌ الحَدَّادِ عَلَى السَّارِقِ [The pay of the inflicter of the حدّ is to be imposed upon the thief]; or, as some say, the meaning here is, the keeper of the prison, because, in general, he has the charge of the amputation; but the former meaning is the more probable, and more obvious.
4 A seller of wine; a vintner: because he withholds his wine until he obtains for it a price that contents him: so in the following verse of ElAashà:
5 A blacksmith; a worker in iron. A maker of coats of mail.
2 A keeper of a prison: because he prevents persons from going out, or because he works the iron of the shackles.
3 The person who inflicts the punishment termed حَدٌّ: so in the saying, أُجْرَةٌ الحَدَّادِ عَلَى السَّارِقِ [The pay of the inflicter of the حدّ is to be imposed upon the thief]; or, as some say, the meaning here is, the keeper of the prison, because, in general, he has the charge of the amputation; but the former meaning is the more probable, and more obvious.
4 A seller of wine; a vintner: because he withholds his wine until he obtains for it a price that contents him: so in the following verse of ElAashà:
[And we arose, when our cock had not yet crowed, to a wine-jar smeared with pitch, in the possession of its seller].فَقُمْنَا وَلَمَّا يَصِحْ دِيكُنَا إِلَى جَوْنَةٍ عِنْدَ حَدَّادِهَا
5 A blacksmith; a worker in iron. A maker of coats of mail.
Lane's Lexicon
+
Hans Wehr
+
Mufradat
Three dictionaries. One search.
"The product of over thirty years of unrelenting labor — to this day supreme in the field of Arabic lexicography."
47,000+ classical entries
Root-based navigation
Full text search
Hyperlinked definitions
Try Now
Trusted by researchers at University of Michigan, Duke, Alberta & more