حجب

8 احتجب احتجب أحتجب ٱحتجب [ He, or it, became prevented, hindered, debarred, or precluded: he became secluded; or he secluded himself: ] he, or it, became veiled, concealed, hidden, covered, or protected; as also ↓ تحجّب. (K, TA.) You say, احتجب المَلِكُ عِنِ النَّاسِ [ The King secluded, or concealed, himself, or became secluded or concealed, from the people ]. (S, A.) And احتجبت الشَّمْسُ فِى السَّحَابِ (tropical:) [ The sun became concealed, or concealed itself, in the clouds ]. (A, TA.) ― -b2- [Hence, app.,] احتجبت المَرْأَةُ بِيَومٍ, (K,) or بِيَوْمٍ مِنْ تَاسِعِهَا, and مِنْ يَوْمٍ مِنْ تَاسِعِهَا, (TA,) [as though meaning The woman secluded herself from the commencement of a day of her ninth month of pregnancy:] said of a pregnant woman, (TA,) when a day has passed of her ninth [month, during which it was probably a custom for a woman to seclude herself in the house or tent]. (K, TA.)