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مُحَرَّمٌ

Root: حرم

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مُحَرَّمٌ [Forbidden, prohibited, or made un lawful: and made, or pronounced, sacred, or in violable, or entitled to reverence or respect or honour]. It is said in a trad., أَمَا عَلِمْتَ أَنَّ الصُّورَةَ مُحَرَّمَةُ, i. e. [Knowest thou not that the face is] forbidden to be beaten? or that it has a title to reverence or respect or honour?
2 المُحَرَّمُ The first of the months of the year of the Arabs [since the age of pagan ism]; the article ال being prefixed because it is originally an epithet; but accord. to some, it is not prefixed to the name of any other month; or, accord. to some, it may be prefixed to صفر and شوّال: and [in the age of paganism, the seventh month, also called] شَهْرُ ٱللّٰهِ الأَصَبُّ [الاصبّ being app. a dial. var. of الأَصَمُّ,] i. e. رَجَبٌ; [for] Az says, the Arabs used to call the month of رَجَب in the age of paganism, الأَصَمُّ and المُحَرَّمُ; and he cites the saying of a poet, أَقَمْنَا بِهَا شَهْرَىْ رَبِيعٍ كِلَاهُمَا وَشَهْرَىْ جُمَادَى وَٱسْتَحَلُّوا المُحَرَّمَا [We stayed in it during the two months of Rabeea, both of them, and the two months of Jumádà; and they made El-Moharram to be profane; app. by postponing it, as the pagan Arabs often did]: the Arabs called it thus because they did not allow fighting in it [unless they had postponed it]: the pl. is مُحَرَّمَاتٌ and مَحَارِمُ and مَحَارِيمُ.
3 See also حَرَمٌ — مُحَرَّمٌ applied to a camel means Refractory, or untractable: [or,] thus applied, [like عَرُوضٌ, q. v.,] submissive in the middle part, [but] difficult to be turned about, [i. e. stubborn in the head,] when turned about: (K: [in the CK, الذَّلُولُ الوَسَطُ is erroneously put for الذَّلُولُ الوَسَطِ: in my MS. copy of the K, الذَّلُولُ الوَسط:]) and with ة a she-camel not broken, or not trained: or not yet completely broken or trained: and مُحَرَّمَةُ الظَّهْرِ a she-camel that is refractory, or untractable; not broken, or not trained: in this sense heard by Az from the Arabs.
4 A skin not tanned: or not completely tanned: or tanned, but not made soft, and not thoroughly done.
5 A new whip: or a whip not yet made soft.
6 An Arab of the desert rude in nature or disposition, chaste in speech, that has not mixed with people of the towns or villages.
7 The part of the nose that is soft in the hand.


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