Lane's Arabic-English Lexicon

حَرَجَةٌ

Root: حرج

Full Definition

حَرَجَةٌ A wood, or collection of trees; so called because of their closeness: or dense and tangled trees: or a thicket, or collection of dense and tangled trees, of the kind called سَلَم, into which no one can penetrate; or of the سَمُر and طَلْح and عَوْسَج and سَلَم and سِدْر; or of the سِدْر and olive and other trees: or a place in a wood where trees are dense and tangled, extending as far as a stone's throw: and also a tree which the pasturing animals cannot reach: pl. حَرَجٌ [or rather this is a coll. gen. n., of which حَرَجَةٌ is the n. un.,] and حَرَجَاتٌ and حِرَاجٌ and [of pauc.] أَحْرَاجٌ: or حَرَجٌ signifies a place in which is a collection of trees, and where they are close together.
2 Also A collection of camels: a hundred camels: pl. [or rather coll. gen. n.] حَرَجٌ .


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