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حرج

Root entry · 1 derived lemma

حَرَجٌ حرج [inf. n. of 1, q. v.:] (tropical:) Straitness; a strait, or difficulty. (A, * TA.) ― -b2- (tropical:) A sin, a crime, or an act of disobedience for which one deserves punishment; syn. اـِثْمٌ; (S, Msb, * K;) as also ↓ حِرْجٌ: (Yoo, S, K:) or the straitness [ which is the consequence ] of sin or crime. (A, Mgh.) ― -b3- [Hence,] لَا حَرَجَ i. q. لَا بَأسَ [ There is, or will be, no harm in thy doing this or that]; and لَا اـِثْمَ [ there is, or will be, no sin, or crime ]. (IAth, TA.) -A2- See also حَرِجٌ, in six places. ― -b2- Also, applied to a she-camel, (tropical:) Lean, lank, light of flesh, slender, or lank in the belly; (S, K;) as also ↓ حُرْجُوجٌ, (S, A,) accord. to AZ, (S,) and ↓ حَرُوجٌ: (A:) or ↓ حُرْجُوجٌ signifies, so applied, lean, &c., as above, and sharp-spirited: (K:) or this last, (K,) and حَرَجٌ and ↓ حَرُوجٌ, (TA,) fat, (K, TA,) largebodied, (TA,) and long [lit. long upon the face of the ground, as distinguished from tall]: or strong: (K, TA:) and حَرَجٌ signifies also, (K,) or, as some say, and so do ↓ حُرْجُوجٌ and ↓ حُرْجُجٌ and ↓ جُرْحٌ, (S,) so applied, long [lit. long upon the face of the ground ]: (S:) and some allow ↓ حِرْجِيجٌ in the sense of ↓ حُرْجُوجٌ; (TA;) which last is originally ↓ حُرْجُجٌ, which is originally ↓ جُرْحٌ: (S:) the pl. of ↓ حُرْجُوجٌ (S) and of ↓ حِرْجِيجٌ (L) is حَرَاجِيحٌ. (S, L.) -A3- See also حَرَجَةٌ, in three places. -A4- Also A thing composed of pieces of wood, (As, S, K,) bound together, (As, S,) in which dead bodies are carried; (As, S, K;) sometimes put over the bier of a woman: (S:) accord. to the T, the حرج of a bier is a شِجَار, [i. e. the frame-work of a هَوْدَج,] which is constructed of wood, and put over the bier of a corpse: accord. to ISd, the حرج is a vehicle for women and men, which has no head. (TA.) See also نَعْشٌ, in two places.

Derived headwords

حَرَجٌ
  1. 1.
لَا حَرَجَ
لَا بَأسَ
لَا اـِثْمَ