حظر

Root entry · 17 derived lemmas

The root حظر (ḥaẓara) primarily denotes the concept of preventing, blocking, or enclosing something. It extends to meanings of restricting access, confining animals or property, and creating barriers. Figuratively, it can refer to being trapped in a difficult situation or spreading malicious gossip.

Derived headwords

حَظَرَverb

1.
to preventboth
To block or stop something from happening or from being accessed.
2.
to forbidboth
To prohibit or disallow something.
3.
to encloseboth
To surround or fence in an area.
4.
to confineboth
To keep something or someone within a specific area, like animals in a pen.
5.
to possessclassical
To hold or keep something exclusively, preventing others from accessing it.

حَظْرٌnoun

1.
preventionboth
The act of preventing or blocking.
2.
prohibitionboth
The state of being forbidden or restricted.
3.
enclosureboth
An area that is fenced or enclosed.
4.
confinementboth
The act of keeping something confined.

حِظَارٌnoun

1.
barrierboth
Anything that stands between you and something else, acting as a barrier.
2.
wallclassical
A wall, especially one made of wood or reeds.
3.
shelterclassical
A structure made of trees to protect animals from cold and wind.

حَظِيرَةٌnoun

1.
penboth
An enclosure for sheep or camels, protecting them from weather.
2.
enclosureboth
A fenced area or enclosure.
3.
granaryclassical
A place where dates are stored, specifically a date-storage structure.
4.
paradiseclassical
Figuratively, Paradise or Heaven.

اِحْتَظَرَverb

1.
to build an enclosureboth
To construct a pen or enclosure for oneself.
2.
to take shelterclassical
To seek protection or refuge.

اِحْتِظَارٌnoun

1.
building an enclosureboth
The act of building an enclosure.
2.
seeking shelterclassical
The act of taking shelter or protection.

أَحْظَرَverb

1.
to encloseclassical
To cause something to be enclosed or fenced in.

اِحْظِظَارٌnoun

1.
enclosureclassical
The act of causing something to be enclosed.

حَظَّارٌnoun

1.
thorny bushesclassical
Thorny bushes, especially when wet, used metaphorically.
2.
gossipclassical
Malicious gossip or slander.

مَحْظُورٌadjective

1.
forbiddenboth
That which is prohibited or unlawful.
2.
restrictedboth
Limited or confined to a specific group or purpose.

مُحْتَظَرٌnoun

1.
enclosureclassical
A place that is enclosed or fenced.
2.
place of enclosureclassical
The area where one builds an enclosure.

مُحْظِرٌnoun

1.
green flyclassical
A type of green fly that stings.

الحَظِيرَةُname

1.
Al-Ḥaẓīrahclassical
A place name, referring to a location near Baghdad or in Al-Yamamah/Bahrain.

الحَظِيرِيَّانِname

1.
Al-Ḥaẓīriyyānclassical
Two narrators named Al-Ḥaẓīriyyān, associated with a place called Al-Ḥaẓīrah.

أَدْهَمُ بْنُ حَظْرَةَname

1.
Adham ibn Ḥaẓrahclassical
A Companion of the Prophet (Sahabi).

زَمَنُ التَّحْظِيرِother

1.
time of divisionclassical
A historical period referring to Umar ibn Al-Khattab's division of land.

نَكِدُ الحَظِيرَةِother

1.
stingyclassical
A stingy or miserly person.
2.
unfortunateclassical
A person of little good fortune or little good.

Parallel reading

حظر الشيء يحظره حظرا وحظارا

He prevented the thing, preventing it with prevention and prohibition.

حظر عليه: منعه، و حظر عليه حظرا: حجر ومنع.

He prevented him: meaning he blocked him, and he prohibited him with prohibition: meaning he restricted and prevented him.

وكل ما حال بينك وبين شيء فقد حظره عليك.

And anything that stands between you and something has prevented it for you.

لا حظار على الأسماء؛ يعني أنه لا يمنع أحد أن يسمي بما شاء أو يتسمى به.

There is no prohibition on names; meaning no one is prevented from naming or being named as they wish.

حظر الرجل حظرا: اتخذ حظيرة

The man built an enclosure, meaning he took a pen.

احتظر، إذا اتخذها لنفسه، وإلا فقد أحظر إحظارا.

He built an enclosure for himself, if he did not, then he caused it to be enclosed.

حظر المال يحظره حظرا: حبسه فيها، أي في الحظيرة من تضييق.

He confined the money, confining it with confinement: meaning he kept it in the enclosure, from restriction.

حظر الشيء: حازه، كأنه منعه من غيره.

He possessed the thing: meaning he held it, as if he prevented others from it.

والحظيرة: جرين التمر، نجدية، كالحضيرة والحصيرة، وقد تقدم ذكرهما.

And the ḥaẓīrah: is a date-storage structure, from Najd, like al-ḥaḍīrah and al-ḥaṣīrah, and they have been mentioned before.

والحظيرة: المحيط بالشيء سواء كان خشبا أو قصبا، جمعها الحظائر.

And the ḥaẓīrah: is the surrounding of a thing, whether it is wood or reed, its plural is al-ḥaẓāʾir.

فإن لنا حظائر ناعمات عطاء الله رب العالمين

Indeed, we have soft enclosures, a gift from God, Lord of the worlds.

والحظار، ككتاب: الحائط

And al-ḥiẓār, like kitāb: is the wall.

وكل ما حال بينك وبين شيء فهو حظار وحظار.

And anything that stands between you and something is a barrier and a barrier.

والحظار: ما يعمل للإبل من شجر ليقيها البرد والريح.

And al-ḥiẓār: is what is made for camels from trees to protect them from cold and wind.

وقد حظر فلان على نعمه.

And so-and-so protected his camels.

وهو مجاز و قيل: هو الشوك الرطب.

And it is metaphorical, and it is said: it is wet thorns.

وقع فلان في الحظر الرطب، أي وقع فيما لا طاقة له به

So-and-so fell into the wet thorns, meaning he fell into something he could not bear.

فربما وقع فيه الرجل فنشب فيه، فشبهوه بهاذا.

So perhaps a man would fall into it and get stuck, and they likened it to this.

أوقد فيه أي نم. أي مشى بالنميمة الشنيعة.

He kindled in it, meaning he spread gossip. Meaning he walked with heinous slander.

لم تمش بين الحي بالحظر الرطب

She did not walk among the people with the wet thorns.

جاء به، أي بالحظر الرطب، أي بكثرة من المال والناس

He brought it, meaning with the wet thorns, meaning with abundance of wealth and people.

وجاءوا بالحظر الرطب، يقال للنمام والكذاب يستوقد بنمائمه نار العداوة ويشبها.

And they came with the wet thorns, it is said of the slanderer and the liar who ignites the fire of enmity with his slander and fans it.

لا يلج حظيرة القدس مدمن خمر

A habitual drinker of wine shall not enter the enclosure of holiness.

أراد بحظيرة القدس الجنة

He intended by the enclosure of holiness to mean Paradise.

وهي في الأصل الموضع الذي يحاط عليه لتأوي إليه الغنم والإبل يقيها البآحد والريح.

And it is originally the place that is surrounded for sheep and camels to take refuge in, protecting them from the heat and the wind.

الحظيريان محدثان منسوبان إلى الحظيرة موضع فوق بغداد

The Al-Ḥaẓīriyyān are two hadith scholars attributed to Al-Ḥaẓīrah, a place above Baghdad.

المحظار: ذباب أخضر يلسع كذباب الآجام.

Al-Miḥẓār: a green fly that stings like the flies of the reeds.

وأدهم بن حظرة اللخمي صحابي

And Adham ibn Ḥaẓrah Al-Lakhmi is a Companion.

وزمن التحظير إشارة إلى ما فعل عمر بن الخطاب رضي الله عنه من قسمة وادي القرى بين المسلمين وبين بني عذرة

And the time of Al-Taḥẓīr is an indication of what Umar ibn Al-Khattab, may God be pleased with him, did in dividing Wadi Al-Qura between the Muslims and Banu 'Adhra.

وهو كالتاريخ عندهم.

And it is like a date for them.

والحظيرة. من عمل دجيل

And Al-Ḥaẓīrah. is from the district of Dujayl.

والحظائر: ع باليمامة

And Al-Ḥaẓāʾir: a place in Al-Yamamah.

هو نكد الحظيرة، أي بخيل، كمافي الأساس.

He is stingy of the enclosure, meaning stingy, as stated in Al-Asas.

وقيل: قليل الخير.

And it was said: having little good.

والمحظور: المحرم

And Al-Maḥẓūr: the forbidden.

والحظر: خلاف الإباحة.

And Al-Ḥaẓr: is the opposite of permissibility.

وما كان عطاء ربك محظورا

And never was the gift of your Lord forbidden.

أي محرما. وهو راجع إلى المنع

Meaning forbidden. And it refers back to prevention.

وقيل: مقصورا على طائفة دون أخرى.

And it was said: restricted to one group and not another.

من حظر الشيء إذا حازه لنفسه خاصة.

From preventing a thing when one possesses it exclusively for oneself.

يقال: احتظر به، أي احتمى.

It is said: he took shelter by it, meaning he protected himself.

فكانوا كهشيم المحتظر

And they became like the dry herbage of the enclosure.

وأراد كالهيشيم الذي جمعه صاحب الحظيرة.

And he meant like the dry herbage that the owner of the enclosure gathered.

والمعنى أنهم قد بادوا وهلكوا فصاروا كيبيس الشجر إذا تحطم.

And the meaning is that they perished and were destroyed, becoming like dry trees when they break.

أراد أنه حظر حظارا رطبا على حظار قديم قد يبس.

He meant that he placed a wet barrier upon an old, dry barrier.