حزق

حُزُقٌّ حزق and ↓ حُزُقَّةٌ Short: or short in step by reason of the weakness of his body: (K:) or short, and short in step: (S:) or narrow in judgment: (K:) so As, in explanation of the latter word; applied to a man and to a woman: (TA:) or this signifies short: and short and ugly: and the former, narrow in power and judgment, and avaricious, niggardly, or tenacious: (Sh, T, TA:) and the latter, (AO, TA,) or both, (K,) large-bellied and short, and, in walking, turning about his buttocks; as also ↓ أُحْزُقَّةٌ and ↓ حَزُقَّةٌ: [the last in the CK without teshdeed:] or [in the CK “ and ”] the first two words, and ↓ حَزُقٌّ and ↓ حَزُقَّةٌ, a short man who is short in step by reason of his shortness or of the weakness of his body: or a man niggardly, or tenacious, of that which is in his hands; and the subst. [signifying the quality thus denoted] is ↓ حَزَقٌ: (K:) also evil in disposition, (IAar, K,) and niggardly: (IAar, TA:) and straitened in circumstances: (Sh, K:) or الحُزُقَّةُ [in the CK الحُزَقَةُ] signifies [sometimes] a sort of game; (K;) as in a trad., in which it is said of some girls, لَعِبْنَ الحُزُقَّةَ [ They played at the game of الحزقّة]. (TA.) حُزُقَّةٌ حُزُقَّهْ تَرَقَّ عَيْنَ بَقَّهْ (S, TA) is a saying of the Arabs, (S,) explained as meaning Short in step by reason of thy weakness, short in step &c., climb up, [ O eye of a gnat or musquito; ] and was said, as is related in a trad., by the Prophet, in dancing El-Hasan and El- Hoseyn; whereupon the child would climb up until he placed his feet upon the Prophet's chest: (TA:) حُزُقَّةٌ is for أَنْتَ حُزُقَّةٌ, or يَا حُزُقَّةُ: (IAth, TA:) and تَرَقَّ means اِرْقَى, from رَقِيتُ فِى الدَّرَجَةِ: (S:) and عَيْنَ بَقَّهْ is an allusion to smallness of the eye, (IAth, TA, and Har p. 619,) as being likened to the eye of the gnat or musquito; or denotes smallness of person. (Har.)