ح ج ر

Arabic

Root

ح ج ر • (ḥ-j-r)

1. related to detention

Derived terms

• Form I: حَجَرَ (ḥajara, “to stop, to debar; to interdict”)
  • Verbal noun: حَجْر (ḥajr), حِجْر (ḥijr), حُجْر (ḥujr), حِجْرَان (ḥijrān), حُجْرَان (ḥujrān)
  • Active participle: حَاجِر (ḥājir)
  • Passive participle: مَحْجُور (maḥjūr)
• Form II: حَجَّرَ (ḥajjara, “to make an enclosure around; to make stone”)
  • Verbal noun: تَحْجِير (taḥjīr)
  • Active participle: مُحَجِّر (muḥajjir)
  • Passive participle: مُحَجَّر (muḥajjar)
• Form IV: أَحْجَرَ (ʔaḥjara, “to hide, to cover”)
  • Verbal noun: إِحْجَار (ʔiḥjār)
  • Active participle: مُحْجِر (muḥjir)
  • Passive participle: مُحْجَر (muḥjar)
• Form V: تَحَجَّرَ (taḥajjara, “to straiten; to petrify, to crystallize”)
  • Verbal noun: تَحَجُّر (taḥajjur)
  • Active participle: مُتَحَجِّر (mutaḥajjir)
  • Passive participle: مُتَحَجَّر (mutaḥajjar)
• Form VIII: اِحْتَجَرَ (iḥtajara, “to limit, to confine; to be full of stones, or of hindrances”)
  • Verbal noun: اِحْتِجَار (iḥtijār)
  • Active participle: مُحْتَجِر (muḥtajir)
  • Passive participle: مُحْتَجَر (muḥtajar)
• Form X: اِسْتَحْجَرَ (istaḥjara, “to become hard”)
  • Verbal noun: اِسْتِحْجَار (istiḥjār)
  • Active participle: مُسْتَحْجِر (mustaḥjir)
  • Passive participle: مُسْتَحْجَر (mustaḥjar)

• حِجْر (ḥijr) or حُجْر (ḥujr, “hole of a mouse or snake”)
• حِجْر (ḥijr, “forbidden; sacred; mare”)
• حَجِر (ḥajir, “stony”)
• حَجْر (ḥajr) or حُجْر (ḥujr, “bosom, lap”)
• حَجَر (ḥajar, “stone”)
• حُجْرَة (ḥujra, “enclosure”)
• حَجَّار (ḥajjār, “stonecutter”)
• مَحْجَر (maḥjar, “confined place, garden, jaol or whatever”)
• مِحْجَر (miḥjar, “quarry”)
• حَنْجَرَة (ḥanjara, “larynx”)

References

• Dozy, Reinhart Pieter Anne (1881) “ح ج ر”, in Supplément aux dictionnaires arabes‎^[1] (in French), volume 1, Leiden: E. J. Brill, pages 250–253
• Freytag, Georg (1830) “ح ج ر”, in Lexicon arabico-latinum praesertim ex Djeuharii Firuzabadiique et aliorum Arabum operibus adhibitis Golii quoque et aliorum libris confectum‎^[2] (in Latin), volume 1, Halle: C. A. Schwetschke, pages 345–346
• Kazimirski, Albin de Biberstein (1860) “ح ج ر”, in Dictionnaire arabe-français contenant toutes les racines de la langue arabe, leurs dérivés, tant dans l’idiome vulgaire que dans l’idiome littéral, ainsi que les dialectes d’Alger et de Maroc‎^[3] (in French), volume 1, Paris: Maisonneuve et C^ie, pages 380–382
• Lane, Edward William (1863) “ح ج ر”, in Arabic-English Lexicon‎^[4], London: Williams & Norgate, pages 516–518
• Steingass, Francis Joseph (1884) “ح ج ر”, in The Student's Arabic–English Dictionary‎^[5], London: W.H. Allen, pages 264–265
• Wehr, Hans with Kropfitsch, Lorenz (1985) “ح ج ر”, in Arabisches Wörterbuch für die Schriftsprache der Gegenwart‎^[6] (in German), 5th edition, Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, published 2011, →ISBN, pages 229–230