riddle, puzzle

, aor. and , inf. n. حَزْرٌ (S, M, Msb K) and مَحْزَرَةٌ, (Th, K,) He computed, or determined, its quantity, measure, size, bulk, proportion, extent, amount, sum, or number: (S, Mgh, * Msb, K:) [more commonly,] he computed by conjecture its quantity or measure &c.; syn. خَرَصَهُ, (S, K,) and قَدَّرَهُ بِالحَدْسِ; (M;) he took its quantity or measure &c. by the eye. (TK.) [He conjectured it; and so ↓ حزّرهُ, inf. n. تَحْزِيرٌ: perhaps post-classical: whence عِلْمُ التَّحْزِيرِ The science of divination.] You say, حَزَرَ النَّخْلِ He computed by conjecture the quantity of the fruit upon the palm-trees. (A, Msb.) And حَزَرْتُ قِرَاءَتَهُ عِشْرِينَ آيَةً (tropical:) I computed his recitation, or reading, to be twenty verses [of the Kur-án]. (A.) And حَزَرْتُ فُدُومَهُ يَوْمَ كَذَا (tropical:) I computed his arrival to be on such a day. (A.) And اِحْزِرْ نَفْسِكَ هَلْ تَقْدِرُ عَلَيْهِ (tropical:) Measure thyself, whether thou be able to do it. (A.) -A2- حَزَرَ, (S, M, K,) aor. , inf. n. حَزْرٌ and حُزُورٌ, (M,) It (milk, S, M, K, and beverage of the kind called نَبِيذ, S, K) became sour, or acid. (S, M, K.) It is said in a prov., عَدَا القَارِصُ فَحَزَرَ [explained in art. قرص]. (A.) ― -b2- Hence, (TA,) (tropical:) It (a man's face) was, or became, [sour, i. e.] frowning, contracted, stern, austere, or morose. (K, TA.)

see above.

The better, or best, of cattle or other property; (S, A, Mgh, Msb, K;) as also ↓ حَزِيرَةُ المالِ: or the latter signifies property to which the heart clings: (TA:) the term حزرة is applied alike to what is masc. and what is fem.: (AO, Msb:) the pl. is حَزَرَاتٌ (S, Msb, K) and حَزْرَاتٌ, as though the sing. were an epithet: (Msb:) it is applied to the better or best of property because the owner of such property always, when he sees it, computes its quantity or number in his mind: accord. to Aboo-Sa'eed, حَزَرَاتُ الأَمْوَالِ signifies those kinds of property which their owners love: accord. to AO, choice kinds of property. (TA.) You say also, هٰذَا حَزْرَةُ نَفْسِى, meaning This is the best of what I have: and of such property the collector of the poor-rate is forbidden to take. (S, Mgh, * TA.) Also, هِىَ حَزْرَةُ قَلْبِهِ It is the choice thing of his heart. (AO.)

Sour [milk such as is termed] صَرْبَة. (K. [In some copies of the K, ضربة, which SM thinks to be a mistake for صربة. See also حَازِرٌ.])

(TA) and ↓ حَزْوَرَةٌ (S, K) and ↓ حِزْوَارَةٌ (K) A small hill: (S, K, TA:) or the first, rugged ground: (TA:) and the second, stony ground: (Abu-t-Teiyib:) pl. [of the first and second] حَزَاوِرُ (S, K) and حَزَاوِرَةٌ (K, mentioned by Abu-t-Teiyib as pl. of the second,) and [of the third] حَزَاوِيرُ. (K.) ― -b2- Also حَزْوَرٌ and ↓ حَزَوَّرٌ, (S, A, K,) [the latter the more common,] (assumed tropical:) A strong boy; (K;) one that has attained to youthful vigour, or the prime of manhood: (TA:) or a boy who has become strong, (S, A,) and has served: (S:) or one who has nearly attained the age of puberty, and has not had commerce with a woman (وَلَمْ يَفْعَلْ [app. meaning ولم يفعل بِٱمَرَأَةٍ]): (Yaakoob, S:) or one who has attained the age of puberty, and has become strong: (Mgh, TA, in explanation of the latter word:) or a boy who has nearly attained the age of puberty; so called, accord. to several authors, as being likened to a hill: or one who has fully attained that age: (TA:) or, accord. to As and El-Mufaddal, a young boy, who has not attained the age of puberty: and sometimes, one who has attained that age, and become strong in body, and has borne arms: and this is the right explanation: (Az:) and a strong man: and, contr., a weak man: (AHát, K:) or, accord. to some of the lexicologists, when applied to a boy, or young man, it signifies strong: and when applied to an old man, weak: (Abu-t-Teiyib:) pl. حَزَاوِرَةٌ (S, TA) and حَزَاوِرُ. (TA.)

: see حَزْوَرٌ.

: see حَزْرَةُ المالِ.

The name of a month, in Greek; [the Syrian month corresponding to June, O. S.;] (S, K;) [next] before تَمُّوز. (S.)

: see حَزْوَرٌ.

: see حَزْوَرٌ.

A man computing, or who computes, by conjecture, the quantity or number [&c.] of a thing or things. (S, TA.) [See 1.] -A2- Applied to milk, and to the beverage called نَبِيذ, Sour, or acid: (S, K:) or, applied to milk, it means more than حَامِضٌ: (TA:) or i. q. حَامِزٌ: (IAar, TA:) or more than حامز. (TA in art. حمز.) ― -b2- And hence, (TA,) applied to a face, (tropical:) [Sour, i. e.] frowning, contracted, stern, austere, or morose. (K, TA.) [See also what follows.]

, (K, TA,) in some copies of the K مُحَزْوَرٌ, (TA,) [in the CK مُحَزْور,] (tropical:) Angered; (K, TA;) and having a frowning, contracted, stern, austere, or morose face. (TA.) [See also what next precedes.]