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حجر

Root entry · 1 derived lemma

مَحْجِرٌ محجر (S, K) and ↓ مِحْجَرٌ (K) A garden surrounded by a wall; or a garden of trees; syn. حَدِيقَةٌ: (S, K:) or a low, or depressed, place of pasture: (T, TA:) or a place in which is much pasture, with water: (A, * TA:) pl. مَحَاجِرُ. (S, A.) See also حَاجِرٌ for the former word and its pl.: and see مَحْجَرٌ. ― -b2- مَحْجِرُ العَيْنِ (S, K, &c.) and ↓ مَحْجَرُهَا (TA) and ↓ مِحْحَرُها (K) and simply المحجر (Msb, TA) and ↓ الحَجْرُ (K) and ↓ الحُجْرُ, which occurs in a verse of El-Akhtal, (IAar,) [ The part which is next below, or around, the eye, and which appears when the rest of the face is veiled by the نِقَاب or the بُرْقُع:] that part [ of the face, next below the eye, ] which appears from out of the [ kind of veil called ] نِقَاب (T, S, A, Msb, K) of a woman (A, Msb, K) and of a man, from the lower eyelid; and sometimes from the upper: (Msb:) or the part that surrounds the eye (Msb, K) on all sides, (Msb,) and appears from out of the [kind of veil called ] بُرْقُع: (Msb, K:) or the part of the bone beneath the eyelid, which encompasses the eye: (TA:) and محجر العين means also what appears from beneath the turban of a man when he has put it on: (K: [accord. to the TA, the turban itself; but this is a meaning evidently derived from a mistranscription in a copy of the K, namely, عِمَامَتُهُ for عِمَامَتِهِ:]) also محجرُالوَجْهِ that part of the face against which the نقاب lies: and المحجر the eye [ itself ]: (T, TA:) the pl. of محجر is مَحَاجِرُ. (A, Msb.)

Derived headwords

مَحْجِرٌ
  1. 1.
مَحْجِرُ العَيْنِ