حرم

حَرِيمٌ حريم : see حَرَامٌ. ― -b2- [Hence,] The appertenances, or conveniences, (حُقُوق and مَرَافِق S, Msb, K,) that are in the immediate environs, (S, Msb,) of a thing, (Msb,) or of a well &c., (S,) or that are adjuncts [or within the precincts ] of a house; (K;) because it is forbidden to any but the owner to appropriate to himself the use thereof: (Msb:) or, of a well, the place where is thrown the earth that has been dug out, (K, TA,) and the walking place on either side; in the case of a well dug in a waste land that has no owner, said in a trad. to be forty cubits: (TA: [but see بَدِىْءٌ:]) and of a river, or rivulet, or canal, the place where the mud is thrown out, and the walking-place on each side: (TA:) and of a house, the interior part upon which the door is closed: (Ibn-Wásil ElKilábee, TA:) or the interior part, or middle, (قَصَبَة,) thereof: (T, TA:) [and particularly the women's apartments, and the portion that is for bidden to men who are not related to the women within the prohibited degrees of marriage: ] and the court of a mosque: (T, TA:) [and in general,] a place which it is incumbent on one to defend [ from intrusion ]: (Ham p. 492:) a thing that one protects, and in defence of which one fights; [and particularly, like حُرْمَةٌ as used by the vulgar, a man's wife; and also his female slave; or any woman under covert; and, like حُرَمٌ, pl. of حُرْمَةٌ, as used in the classical language, his wives, or women under covert, and household; ] as also ↓ حَرَمٌ: pl. حُرُمٌ, (K,) the pl. of حَرِيمٌ; (TA;) and أَحْرَامٌ, (K,) which is the pl. of ↓ حَرَمٌ. (TA.) ― -b3- A partner, copartner, or sharer. (K.) ― -b4- A friend: so in the saying, فُلَانٌ حَرِيمٌ صَرِيحٌ Such a one is a genuine, or sincere, friend. (TA.) ― -b5- The garment of the مُحْرِم (S, K,) [ which he wears during the performance of the حَجّ or the عُمْرَة;] called by the vulgar ↓ اـِحْرَامٌ and ↓ حِرَامٌ (TA.) ― -b6- The clothes which the مُحْرِمُون used to cast off, (S, * K, TA,) when, in the time of paganism, they performed the pilgrimage to the House [ of God, at Mekkeh ], namely, those that were upon them when they entered the حَرَم [or sacred terri tory, ] (TA,) and which they did not wear (K, TA) as long as they remained in the حَرَم: (TA:) for the Arabs used to perform their circuiting round the House naked, with their clothes thrown down before them during the circuiting; (T, S, TA;) they saying, “ We will not perform the circuiting round the House in clothes in which we have committed sins, or crimes: ” and the woman, also, used to perform the circuiting naked, except that she wore a رَهْط of thongs. (TA.) A poet says, كَفَى حَزَنًا مَرِّى عَلَيْهِ كَأَنَّهُ لَقًى بَيْنَ أَيْدِى الطَّائِفِينَ حَرِيمُ [ Sufficiently grievous is my passing by him as though he were a thing thrown away, a cast-off garment of a مُحْرِم, before those performing the circuiting round the Kaabeh]. (S.