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حَظِيرَةٌ

Root: حظر

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حَظِيرَةٌ An enclosure of a thing, of wood, or of canes or reeds: [a kind of pen:] an enclosure for camels, made of trees, to protect them from the cold and wind; as also حِظَارٌ : an enclosure for sheep or goats, &c., made of trees, to confine and protect them: pl. حَظَائِرُ and حِظَارٌ: Az heard the Arabs apply the term , with fet-h [to the ح, to a wall made of trees placed one upon another to form a protection for camels or sheep or goats from the cold of the north wind in winter. The pl. حَظَائرُ is met. applied, by the poet El-Marrár Ibn-Munkidh, to [Enclosures of] palm-trees. [Hence,] حَظِيرَةٌ القُدْسِ Paradise: occurring in a trad. And هَوَ نَكِدُ الحَظِيرَةِ He is a person of little good, or of no good: or niggardly, tenacious, penurious, or avaricious.
2 Also A place in which dates are dried: of the dial. of Nejd: as also حَضِيرَةٌ and حَصِيرَةٌ.


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