حجو

1 حَجَا حج حجا , (S, K,) aor. يَحْجُو, (S, TA,) inf. n. حَجْوٌ, (TA,) He thought, or opined: (S, TA:) or he thought, or opined, a thing, and, doing so, claimed it (اِدَّعَاهُ), not being certain of it: (K:) [or he thought it and asserted it; as appears from a verse here following, cited in the TA as an ex. of the meaning explained as above in the K:] and بِظَنِّهِ ↓ تحجّى, and تحجّى alone, he thought, or opined, a thing, not being certain of it. (T, TA.) You say, أَنَا أَحْجُو بِهِ خَيْرًا I think, or opine, that there is good in him. (S, TA.) And Aboo-Shembel says, respecting Aboo-'Amr Esh-Sheybánee, قَدْ كُنْتُ أَحْجُو أَبَا عَمْرٍوأَخَاثِقَةٍ حَتَّى أَلَمَّتْ بِنَا يَوْمًا مُلِمَّاتُ [ I used to think and assert Aboo-'Amr to be a trustworthy person, until, one day, misfortunes befell us ]. (TA.) ― -b2- حَجَا القَوْمَ كَذَا وَكَذَا (S, K *) He repaid, requited, compensated, or recompensed, the people, or party, [ with, or for, such and such things, ] syn. جَزَاهُمْ; [so in my copies of the S, and in the K; but Freytag gives, as the reading found by him in the S, حزاهم, as though meaning he computed them by conjecture to be such and such in number; which is agreeable with what follows;] and he thought them to be so. (S.) -A2- He directed himself, or his course or aim, to, or towards, him, or it: (Az, TA:) and ↓ تحجّى الشَّىْءَ he directed himself, or his course or aim, to, or towards, the thing. (S, TA.) -A3- Also, (K,) inf. n. as above, (TA,) He kept a secret: (K:) or he concealed it: (AZ, TA:) [and ↓ حَاجِى has a similar meaning; for] you say, لَامُحَاجَاةَ عِنْدِى فِى كَذَا, i. e. There is no concealment with me in respect of such a thing; as also لا مُكَافَأَةَ. (TA.) ― -b2- لَا يَحْجُو اـِبِلَهُ, said of a pastor, He does not, or will not, keep and tend, or pasture and defend, his camels. (TA.) One says also of a pastor whose sheep or goats [and camels] are lost by him, and become dispersed, مَا يَحْجُو غَنَمَهُ وَلَا اـِبِلَهُ [ He does not keep his sheep or goats, nor his camels, from being lost and becoming dispersed ]. (TA.) ― -b3- سِقّاآءٌ لَا يَحْجُو المَاآءَ A skin that will not hold, or retain, water. (TA.) ― -b4- مَاحَجَوْتُ مِنْهُ شَيْئًا I did not keep, or retain in my memory, of it, aught; as also ما هَجَوْتُ. (Ks, TA.) -A4- Also, (K,) inf. n. as above, (TA,) He, or it, prevented, or withheld. (K, TA.) [See حِجًا.] -A5- حَاجَيْتُهُ فَحَجَوْتُهُ: see 3. -A6- حَجَا بِالْمَكَانِ, (S, K,) inf. n. as above, (K,) He remained, stayed, dwelt, or abode, in the place, (S, K, TA,) and became fixed [ therein ]; (TA;) as also بِهِ ↓ تحجّى. (S, K.) And حَجَا, (IAar, K,) inf. n. as above, (IAar,) He stopped, or paused. (IAar, K.) ― -b2- And حَجَا بِهِ, [inf. n. as above, (see Ham p. 523,)] He was, or became, tenacious, or avaricious, of it, namely, a thing; (S, K;) as also به ↓ تحجّى. (TA.) And حَجِى بِهِ, (Fr, S, K,) aor. حَجَوَ , inf. n. حَجًى [or حَجًا], (TK,) He was, or became attached to it, and clave to it; (Fr, S, K;) as also حَجِئَ به; and به ↓ تحجّى; (Fr, S;) and تحجّأبه. (Fr, TA.) ↓ تحجّى also signifies He kept to the حَجَا, or place of bending or turning of a valley. (TA.) And بِهٰذَا المَكَانِ ↓ تَحَجَّيْتُ I preceded you, or outwent you, to this place, and clave to it before you. (S, TA.) And [hence,] بِهِمْ ↓ تحجّى is said to mean (assumed tropical:) He was first, or foremost, or quick, to blame them. (TA.) ― -b3- حَجِىَ, (K, TA,) aor. حَجَوَ , (TA,) is also [said to be] syn. with عَدَا, (K,) He ran; (TK;) thus bearing two contr. significations: (K:) but this requires consideration. (TA.) ― -b4- [Golius, as on the authority of the KL, assigns to it also the meaning “ Hilaris et lubens fuit: ” but in this sense it is said in the KL to be with ء for its last radical letter: see art. حجأ.]