حَرِيمٌ
Root: حرم
Full Definition
2 [Hence,] The appertenances, or conveniences, (حُقُوق and مَرَافِق S, Msb, K,) that are in the immediate environs, of a thing, or of a well &c., or that are adjuncts [or within the precincts] of a house; because it is forbidden to any but the owner to appropriate to himself the use thereof: or, of a well, the place where is thrown the earth that has been dug out, and the walking place on either side; in the case of a well dug in a waste land that has no owner, said in a trad. to be forty cubits: (TA: [but see بَدِىْءٌ:]) and of a river, or rivulet, or canal, the place where the mud is thrown out, and the walking-place on each side: and of a house, the interior part upon which the door is closed: or the interior part, or middle, (قَصَبَة,) thereof: [and particularly the women's apartments, and the portion that is for bidden to men who are not related to the women within the prohibited degrees of marriage:] and the court of a mosque: [and in general,] a place which it is incumbent on one to defend [from intrusion]: a thing that one protects, and in defence of which one fights; [and particularly, like حُرْمَةٌ as used by the vulgar, a man's wife; and also his female slave; or any woman under covert; and, like حُرَمٌ, pl. of حُرْمَةٌ, as used in the classical language, his wives, or women under covert, and household;] as also حَرَمٌ : pl. حُرُمٌ, the pl. of حَرِيمٌ; and أَحْرَامٌ, which is the pl. of حَرَمٌ .
3 A partner, copartner, or sharer.
4 A friend: so in the saying, فُلَانٌ حَرِيمٌ صَرِيحٌ Such a one is a genuine, or sincere, friend.
5 The garment of the مُحْرِم [which he wears during the performance of the حَجّ or the عُمْرَة;] called by the vulgar إِحْرَامٌ and حِرَامٌ
6 The clothes which the مُحْرِمُون used to cast off, when, in the time of paganism, they performed the pilgrimage to the House [of God, at Mekkeh], namely, those that were upon them when they entered the حَرَم [or sacred terri tory,] and which they did not wear as long as they remained in the حَرَم: for the Arabs used to perform their circuiting round the House naked, with their clothes thrown down before them during the circuiting; they saying, “ We will not perform the circuiting round the House in clothes in which we have committed sins, or crimes: ” and the woman, also, used to perform the circuiting naked, except that she wore a رَهْط of thongs. A poet says,
[Sufficiently grievous is my passing by him as though he were a thing thrown away, a cast-off garment of a مُحْرِم, before those performing the circuiting round the Kaabeh]. (S.كَفَى حَزَنًا مَرِّى عَلَيْهِ كَأَنَّهُ لَقًى بَيْنَ أَيْدِى الطَّائِفِينَ حَرِيمُ
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