ح د ق

Root entry · 11 derived lemmas

This root primarily concerns the eye, specifically its pupil or the dark center, and by extension, intense looking or surrounding. It also extends to concepts of enclosure, gardens, and fertile land.

Derived headwords

الحَدَقَةnoun

1.
pupil of the eyeboth
The dark circular center of the eye, containing the pupil.
2.
fertile landclassical
Used metaphorically to describe fertile, watered land, like the pupil of a camel's eye.

نزلوا في مثل حدقة البعير أي: نزلوا في خصب — They camped in fertile land, like the pupil of a camel's eye.

حَدَقَverb

1.
to stare atboth
To look intently at something.
2.
to surroundclassical
To encircle or encompass something.

فحدقني القوم بأبصارهم — The people stared at me with their eyes.

كل شيء استدار بشيء، وأحاط به، فقد أحدق به — Anything that encircles and surrounds something, it has been surrounded by it.

حَدَقًاnoun

1.
intense lookingboth
The act of looking intently or staring.

حَدُوقًاnoun

1.
opening eyes wideclassical
The act of opening one's eyes wide and looking around.

ورأيت الميت يحدق يمنة ويسرة حدوقا بالضم: إذا فتح عينيه، وطرف بهما — I saw the deceased looking right and left, opening his eyes wide and moving them.

أَحْدَقَverb

1.
to surroundboth
To encircle or surround something completely.

عليه شامة سوداء قد أحدق بها بياض — He has a black mole surrounded by white skin.

احدودقواverb

1.
to surroundclassical
To surround or be surrounded by something.

واحدودقوا بالشيء: مثل حدقوا به — And they surrounded the thing, like they surrounded it.

الحَدَقnoun

1.
eggplantclassical
A type of vegetable, eggplant.

الحدق، محركة: الباذنجان — The hadaq (with harakah): eggplant.

الحَدِيقَةnoun

1.
gardenboth
An enclosed garden, often with trees and water, or a walled orchard.
2.
fertile landboth
A piece of land that is fertile and holds water, or a depression in a valley that collects water.
3.
a place nameclassical
A specific location, including a place near Medina and a garden belonging to Musaylimah.

جادت عليها كل بكر حرة ... فتركن كل حديقة كالدرهم — Every free young she-camel rained upon it, leaving every garden like a dirham.

اقبل الحديقة، وطلقها تطليقة — Accept the garden, and divorce her with one divorce.

حدائقnoun

1.
gardensboth
Plural of hadiqah, referring to gardens or fertile plots of land.

وحدائق غلبا — and dense gardens.

تَحْدِيقnoun

1.
intense gazeboth
The act of looking intensely or staring fixedly.

المُحْدَقnoun

1.
severe matterclassical
A grave or severe situation that men are surrounded by or face.

الأمر الشديد تحدق منه الرجال — The severe matter from which men are surrounded.

Parallel reading

الحدقة، محركة: سواد العين عن ابن دريد، وهو المستدير وسط العين

The hadaqah, muḥarrikah: the blackness of the eye, according to Ibn Durayd, and it is the round thing in the center of the eye.

وقيل: هي في الظاهر سوادها، وفي الباطن خرزتها

And it is said: it is outwardly its blackness, and inwardly its bead.

وقال الجوهري: سوادها الأعظم

And Al-Jawhari said: its greatest blackness.

قولهم: في حديث الأحنف: نزلوا في مثل حدقة البعير أي: نزلوا في خصب

Their saying, in the hadith of Al-Aḥnaf: 'They camped in fertile land, like the pupil of a camel's eye'.

قال ابن الأثير: لأنها توصف بكثرة الماء والنداوة

Ibn Al-Athir said: because it is described by abundance of water and moisture.

وحدقوا به يحدقون: إذا أطافوا به

And they surrounded it, they surround: when they encircle it.

قال الأخطل يمدح بني أمية: (المنعمون بنو حرب وقد حدقت ... بي المنية واستبطأت أنصاري)

Al-Akhtal said, praising the Umayyads: 'The benevolent are the sons of Harb, and death has surrounded me, and I have delayed my helpers'.

وكأن يدي بالسيف مخراق لاعب

As if my hands with the sword were the movements of a player.

وحدق فلانا الشيء بعينه يحدقه حدقا: إذا نظر إليه

And he looked at someone with his eye, he looks at him intently, with a stare: if he looked at him.

ورأيت الميت يحدق يمنة ويسرة حدوقا بالضم: إذا فتح عينيه، وطرف بهما

And I saw the deceased looking right and left, opening his eyes wide and moving them.

والحدق، محركة: الباذنجان نقله الأزهري عن ابن الأعرابي

And Al-Hadaq, muḥarrikah: eggplant, narrated by Al-Azhari from Ibn Al-A'rabi.

والحديقة: الروضة ذات الشجر كما في الصحاح

And Al-Ḥadīqah: a garden with trees, as in Al-Ṣiḥāḥ.

وهي كل أرض استدارت، وأحدق بها حاجز، أو أرض مرتفعة

And it is any land that is circular, surrounded by a barrier, or elevated land.

قال عنترة: (جادت عليها كل بكر حرة ... فتركن كل حديقة كالدرهم)

Antarah said: 'Every free young she-camel rained upon it, leaving every garden like a dirham'.

وقيل: الحديقة: حفرة تكون في الوادي تحبس الماء

And it is said: Al-Ḥadīqah is a pit in a valley that holds water.

وفي التنزيل العزيز: وحدائق غلبا

And in the Noble Qur'an: and dense gardens.

أو الحديقة: البستان عليه الحائط

Or Al-Ḥadīqah: an orchard with a wall around it.

والحديقة: ة، من أعراض المدينة على ساكنها أفضل الصلاة والسلام، كانت بها وقعة بين الأوس والخزرج

And Al-Ḥadīqah: a place in the outskirts of Medina, may the best prayer and peace be upon its inhabitants, where a battle took place between the Aws and Khazraj.

وحديقة الرحمن: بستان كان لمسيلمة الكذاب بفناء اليمامة، فلما قتل عندها سميت حديقة الموت

And the Garden of the Most Merciful: a garden that belonged to Musaylimah the Liar in the vicinity of Al-Yamamah, and when he was killed near it, it was named the Garden of Death.