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, (Msb, K,) and حَظَرَ عَلَيْهِ, (K,) aor. , (Msb,) inf. n. حَظْرٌ (S, A, Msb) and حِظَارٌ, (TA,) He forbade it; prohibited it; interdicted it. (S, A, Msb, K.) The Arabs say, لَا حِظَارَ عَلَى الأَسْمَآءِ There is no prohibition against names; i. e., no one is forbidden to be named, or to name himself, as he pleases. (TA.) ― -b2- حَظَرَ الشَّىْءَ عَلَيْهِ It (anything intervening) debarred the thing from him. (L.) And حُظِرَ عَلَيْهِ كَذَا Such a thing was debarred from him, by something intervening. (A.) ― -b3- Also حَظَرَهُ, (Msb, K,) inf. n. حَظْرٌ, (Mgh,) He took it to, or for, himself; (Mgh, Msb, K, TA;) as though he withheld it from others. (TA.) ― -b4- And حَظَرَ, (K,) aor. , inf. n. حَظْرٌ, (TA,) He confined cattle in a حَظِيرَة. (K.) And حَظَرَ عَلَى نَعَمِهِ He confined his cattle in a حَظَار. (Az.) ― -b5- And حَظَرَ, (K,) [aor. app. as above,] inf. n. حَظْرٌ; (TA;) ↓ احتظر; (A, Msb, K;) He made a حَظِيرَة: (A, Msb, K:) or the former, (Mgh,) or ↓ احظر inf. n. إِحْظَارٌ, (TA,) he made a حظيرة for another: and ↓ احتظر he made a حظيرة for himself. (Mgh, TA.)

[حظّر, inf. n. تَحْظِيرٌ, app. signifies He made a limit of separation, or the like. For] زَمَنُ التَّحْظِيرِ (used as an era, Mgh) points to what 'Omar did, in dividing Wádi-l-Kurà among the Muslims and Benoo-'Odhrah, after the expulsion of the Jews: (Mgh, K, TA:) as though he assigned to every one a limit of separation. (TA.)

see 1.

see 1, in two places. ― -b2- Also احتظر بِهِ (assumed tropical:) He protected, or defended, himself by means of him, or it. (TA.)

Trees with which a حَظِيرَة is made. (A, K.) ― -b2- And Fresh thorns. (K.) وَقَعَ فِى الحَظِرِ الرَّطْبِ (assumed tropical:) He fell into that to which he was not equal, (K, TA,) is a prov., originating from the fact of the Arabs' collecting fresh thorns, and making of them enclosures, into which a man sometimes falls so that he becomes caught therein. (TA.) And جَآءَ بِالحَظِرِ الرَّطْبِ (tropical:) He came with, or brought, a large number of cattle, and of men: or an odious lie: (K:) [or calumny, or slander, and falsehood:] is said of a calumniator, or slanderer, and liar, who kindles by his calumnies the fire of enmity, and makes it to burn up. (A.) And أَوْقَدَ فِى الحَظِرِ الرَّطْبِ (tropical:) He uttered calumny, or slander: (K:) or he went about with calumny, or slander, and foul conduct. (TA.)

(Sh, T, K) and حَظَارٌ (T, K) i. q. حَايأِطٌ [A wall, or wall of enclosure, &c.]: (Sh, T, K:) and anything intervening between a person and a thing, or between two things, and forming a barrier, and obstruction, a partition, or a fence. (TA.) See also the next paragraph, in two places.

An enclosure of a thing, of wood, or of canes or reeds: (K:) [a kind of pen:] an enclosure for camels, (S, Mgh,) made of trees, to protect them from the cold and wind; (S;) as also ↓ حِظَارٌ: (S, K:) an enclosure for sheep or goats, &c., made of trees, to confine and protect them: pl. حَظَايأِرُ and حِظَارٌ: (Msb:) Az heard the Arabs apply the term ↓ حَظَارٌ, with fet-h [to the ح, to a wall made of trees placed one upon another to form a protection for camels or sheep or goats from the cold of the north wind in winter. (TA.) The pl. حَظَايأرُ is met. applied, by the poet El-Marrár Ibn-Munkidh, to (tropical:) [Enclosures of] palm-trees. (TA.) [Hence,] حَظِيرَةٌ القُدْسِ (assumed tropical:) Paradise: (K:) occurring in a trad. (TA.) And هَوَ نَكِدُ الحَظِيرَةِ (tropical:) He is a person of little good, or of no good: (S, K:) or niggardly, tenacious, penurious, or avaricious. (A.) ― -b2- Also A place in which dates are dried: (K:) of the dial. of Nejd: as also حَضِيرَةٌ and حَصِيرَةٌ. (TA.)

Forbidden; prohibited; interdicted: (S, Mgh, K:) confined to one class of men, exclusively of others; thus in the Kur xvii. 21. (K.)

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A maker of a حَظِيرَة. (S, Msb.) In the Kur liv. 31, some read, كَهَشِيمِ المُحْتَظِرِ; and others, ↓ المُحْتَظَرِ: (S, TA:) the former meaning Like the dry fragments of plants, or trees, which the maker of a حظيرة collects: the latter, like the dry fragments of plants, or trees, of a حظيرة. (TA.)