حرص

حِرْصٌ حرص a subst. from حَرَصَ عَلَيْهِ, (Msb,) Vehemence of desire; eagerness; avidity; cupidity; hankering; greediness; vehement greediness, or avidity, for an object sought after; covetousness; excessive, or inordinate, desire; (TA;) or i. q. جَشَعٌ: (S, K:) or culpable desire for worldly good: (Msb:) [the different opinions respecting its derivation have been mentioned above, voce حَرَصَ:] also the act of striving, or labouring; exerting oneself; taking pains, or extraordinary pains; to acquire, obtain, or attain, a thing. (Msb, TA.) قُرِنَ الحِرْصُ بِالحِرْمَانِ [ Greediness, &c., is coupled with prohibition of the object thereof] is a saying of the Arabs. (TA.) ― -b2- Also Excessive solicitude, or care, and fear, respecting a person; and excessive pity or compassion. (TA.) [See حَرِيصٌ.]