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حور

Root entry · 1 derived lemma

4 احار احار أحار حار [ He returned a thing]. You say, طَحَنَتْ فَمَا أَحَارَتْ شَيْئًا She ground, and did not return (مَا رَدَّتْ) anything of the flour [app. for the loan of the hand-mill: see حُورٌ, below]. (S, K.) ― -b2- احار الغُصَّةَ He swallowed the thing sticking in his throat and choking him; [as though he returned it from its place: see 1: see also 4 in art. حير: and see an ex. voce اـِحَارَةٌ.] (TA.) And فُلَانٌ سَرِيعُ الاـِحَارَةِ Such a one is quick in swallowing: [said to be] from what next follows. (Meyd, TA.) ― -b3- احار, (S, K, &c.,) inf. n. اـِحَارَةٌ, (TA,) He returned an answer, or a reply. (Msb, TA.) You say, كَلَّمْتُهُ فَمَا أَحَارَ اـِلَىَّ جَوَابًا I spoke to him, and he did not return to me an answer, or a reply. (S, A, * Msb, * K, *) And in like manner, مَا أَحَارَ بِكَلِمَةِ [ He did not return a word in answer, or in reply]. (TA.) -A2- احارت She (a camel) had a young one such as is called حُوَار. (K.)

Derived headwords

احارverb
  1. 1.
طَحَنَتْ فَمَا أَحَارَتْ شَيْئًا
مَا رَدَّتْ
احار الغُصَّةَ
فُلَانٌ سَرِيعُ الاـِحَارَةِ
كَلَّمْتُهُ فَمَا أَحَارَ اـِلَىَّ جَوَابًا
مَا أَحَارَ بِكَلِمَةِ