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حزر

Root entry · 1 derived lemma

حَزْوَرٌ حزور (TA) and ↓ حَزْوَرَةٌ (S, K) and ↓ حِزْوَارَةٌ (K) A small hill: (S, K, TA:) or the first, rugged ground: (TA:) and the second, stony ground: (Abu-t-Teiyib:) pl. [of the first and second] حَزَاوِرُ (S, K) and حَزَاوِرَةٌ (K, mentioned by Abu-t-Teiyib as pl. of the second,) and [of the third] حَزَاوِيرُ. (K.) ― -b2- Also حَزْوَرٌ and ↓ حَزَوَّرٌ, (S, A, K,) [the latter the more common,] (assumed tropical:) A strong boy; (K;) one that has attained to youthful vigour, or the prime of manhood: (TA:) or a boy who has become strong, (S, A,) and has served: (S:) or one who has nearly attained the age of puberty, and has not had commerce with a woman (وَلَمْ يَفْعَلْ [app. meaning ولم يفعل بِا@مَرَأَةٍ]): (Yaakoob, S:) or one who has attained the age of puberty, and has become strong: (Mgh, TA, in explanation of the latter word:) or a boy who has nearly attained the age of puberty; so called, accord. to several authors, as being likened to a hill: or one who has fully attained that age: (TA:) or, accord. to As and El-Mufaddal, a young boy, who has not attained the age of puberty: and sometimes, one who has attained that age, and become strong in body, and has borne arms: and this is the right explanation: (Az:) and a strong man: and, contr., a weak man: (AHát, K:) or, accord. to some of the lexicologists, when applied to a boy, or young man, it signifies strong: and when applied to an old man, weak: (Abu-t-Teiyib:) pl. حَزَاوِرَةٌ (S, TA) and حَزَاوِرُ. (TA.)

Derived headwords

حَزْوَرٌ
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وَلَمْ يَفْعَلْ
ولم يفعل بِا@مَرَأَةٍ