Lane's Arabic-English Lexicon

مَحْجِرٌ

Root: حجر

Full Definition

مَحْجِرٌ : see حِجْرٌ, in four places.
2 Also, or مَحْجِرٌ and مِحْجَرٌ , The tract surrounding a town or village: [pl. مَحَاجِرُ.] Hence the مَحَاجِر of the kings (أَقْيَال) of ElYemen, which were Places of pasturage, whereof each of them had one, in which no other person pastured his beasts: the محجر of a قَيْل of El-Yemen was his tract of land into which no other person than himself entered.
3 See also حَجْرَةٌ.
4 And see مَحْجرُ العَيْنِ.


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