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حَزَرَهُ

Root: حزر

Form: 1

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حَزَرَهُI , Present.T ـُ and ـِ Verbal.Noun حَزْرٌ and مَحْزَرَةٌ, He computed, or determined, its quantity, measure, size, bulk, proportion, extent, amount, sum, or number: [more commonly,] he computed by conjecture its quantity or measure &c.; syn. خَرَصَهُ, and قَدَّرَهُ بِالحَدْسِ; he took its quantity or measure &c. by the eye. [He conjectured it; and so حزّرهُ , Verbal.Noun تَحْزِيرٌ: perhaps post-classical: whence عِلْمُ التَّحْزِيرِ The science of divination.] You say, حَزَرَ النَّخْلِ He computed by conjecture the quantity of the fruit upon the palm-trees. And حَزَرْتُ قِرَاءَتَهُ عِشْرِينَ آيَةً I computed his recitation, or reading, to be twenty verses [of the Kur-án]. And حَزَرْتُ فُدُومَهُ يَوْمَ كَذَا I computed his arrival to be on such a day. And اِحْزِرْ نَفْسِكَ هَلْ تَقْدِرُ عَلَيْهِ Measure thyself, whether thou be able to do it.

def.2 حَزَرَ, Present.T ـُ Verbal.Noun حَزْرٌ and حُزُورٌ, It (milk, S, M, K, and beverage of the kind called نَبِيذ, S, K) became sour, or acid. It is said in a prov., عَدَا القَارِصُ فَحَزَرَ [explained in art. قرص].
2 Hence, It was, or became, [sour, i. e.] frowning, contracted, stern, austere, or morose.
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