grab, seize

, aor. , (K, TA, [in the CK ,]) inf. n. حَجْنٌ, (TA,) He bent it, or made it crooked [or hooked]; namely, a stick, or branch, or slender piece of wood; as also ↓ حجّنهُ, (K,) inf. n. تَحْجِينٌ. (TA.) ― -b2- (assumed tropical:) He marked him (i. e. a camel) with the brand of the مَحْجَن, which is a line with a crooked, or hooked, end, like the stick called مِحْجَن; inf. n. as above. (TA.) ― -b3- He drew it, or pulled it, [or hooked it,] (S, K,) towards himself (S) with the مِحْجَن; as also ↓ احتجنهُ. (S, K.) ― -b4- (tropical:) He turned him away (K, TA) عَنِ الشَّىْءِ from the thing. (TA.) -A2- حَجِنَ عَلَيْهِ and بِهِ, aor. , (K,) inf. n. حَجَنٌ, (TA,) He was, or became, avaricious, tenacious, or niggardly, of it; (K;) like حَجِيأَ بِهِ. (TA.) ― -b2- حَجِنَ بِالدَّارِ He remained, stayed, dwelt, or abode, in the house. (K.)

see 1.

, said of the ثُمَام [or panic grass], It put forth its خُوص; (A 'Obeyd, S, K; * [in the K its خُوصَة;]) [i. e.] its leaves appeared. (TA.)

It was, or became, crooked, [or hooked,] or curved: (T, K:) said of a thing that is termed أَحْجَنُ. (T.)

see 1. ― -b2- [Hence,] احتجن المَالَ (tropical:) He drew the property, or camels &c., together (S, K, TA) to himself, (S, TA,) and took, or took possession of, it, or them. (S, K, TA.) And احتجنهُ (tropical:) He took possession of it (i. e. a portion of land), exclusively of others. (TA from a trad.) And احتجنهُ لِنَفْسِهِ دُونَ أَصْحَابِهِ (tropical:) He appropriated it (a thing) to himself, exclusively of his companions. (T, TA.) And احتجن مَالَ غَيْرِهِ (assumed tropical:) He took away, and stole, the property of another. (TA.) ― -b3- Also (assumed tropical:) He put the property, or camels &c., into a good, or right, state, and drew together what had become scattered thereof. (TA.) ― -b4- And احتجن عَلَيْهِ (assumed tropical:) He straitened him. (TA.)

Crookedness, [or hookedness,] or curvature; (S, K;) as also ↓ حُجْنَةٌ. (K.) ― -b2- See also حُجْنَةٌ.

: see أَحْجَنُ.

: see حَجَنٌ. ― -b2- Also Crispness [or recurvation] in the extremities of hair. (T, TA. [See أَحْجَنُ.]) ― -b3- A place of crookedness or curvature (ISd, TA) of a staff or stick. (TA.) ― -b4- The hook in the head of a spindle, (S, * K, * TA,) with which the thread is caught preparatively to the twisting thereof. (TA.) ― -b5- The خُوصَة, (K,) or خُوص, (S,) [i. e.] the leaves [or blades], (TA,) of ثُمَام [or panic grass]; (S, K, TA;) as also ↓ حَجَنَةٌ. (K.) And ↓ حَجَنٌ [of which ↓ حَجَنَةٌ is the n. un., if not a mistranscription of حُجَنٌ,] Tender, or soft, shoots, that grow upon the sides of the stalks of the ثُمَام and the ضَعَة [which is said to be a species of ثُمَام]. (TA.) And حُجَنٌ, pl. of حُجْنَةٌ, The fruit-stalks of grapes. (TA.) -A2- Also A thing, or portion of a thing, that one has drawn and appropriated to oneself. (TA.)

: see the next preceding paragraph, in two places.

Sluggish, lazy, or indolent: (K:) from حَجِنَ بِالدَّارِ [q. v.]. (TA.) ― -b2- غَزْوَةٌ حَجُونٌ (tropical:) A hostile, or hostile and plundering, expediton, in which the party feigns to be going in one direction, and then turns to another: (A, K, * TA:) or farextending. (S, K.) And سِرْنَا عُقْبَةً حَجُونًا (tropical:) We journeyed a long stage. (S, TA.)

Crooked, [hooked,] or curved: fem. حَجْنَآءُ: pl. حُجْنٌ. (Ham p. 403.) You say, الصَّقْرُ أَحْجَنُ المِنْقَارِ The hawk is crooked [or hooked] in the bill. (TA.) And صَقْرٌ أَحْجَنُ المَخَالِبِ A hawk having crooked [or hooked] talons. (S, TA.) And أَنْفٌ أَحْجَنُ [A hooked nose,] a nose having the tip approaching the mouth, and, Az adds, having its نَاشِرَتَانِ [or two alæ] receding in an ugly manner. (TA.) And أُذُنٌ حَجْنَآءُ An ear having one [app. the upper] of its two extremities turning towards the forehead, downwards: or having its edges turning towards the other ear, in the direction of the forehead: (M, K:) in either case, curving. (M, TA.) And شَعَرٌ أَحْجَنُ (tropical:) Hair that is crisp, or curly, in its extremities: or, accord. to AZ, wavy hair: (T:) or hair that is recurvate at its extremities (مُعَقَّفٌ), and intermingling: (M:) or hair forming a succession of rimples (مُتَسَلْسِلٌ), pendulous, wavy, and crisp, or curling, in the extremities; as also ↓ حَجِنٌ. (K.)

(assumed tropical:) A crooked, [or hooked,] or curved, brand, or mark made with a hot iron [upon a camel]: (K:) [originally inf. n. of 2; but in this sense,] a subst., properly speaking, like تَنْبِيتٌ and تَمْتِينٌ. (TA. [See also مِحْجَنٌ.])