control, controlling

, aor. , (S, Msb,) inf. n. حَكٌّ, (S, Mgh, Msb, K,) [He scratched, scraped, rubbed, grated, chafed, or fretted, it: or] he scraped off, abraded, or otherwise removed, its superficial part: (Mgh, Msb:) حَكٌّ signifies the act of scratching: (KL:) or the making a body to pass upon another body with collision: (K:) [as meaning scratching and the like,] it is with the nail, and with the hand, &c. (TA.) مَا حَكَّ ظَهْرِى مِثْلُ يَدِى [Nothing has scratched my back like my hand] is a prov., meaning that one should abstain from relying upon others: and the same meaning is intended in the following verse: " مَا حَكَّ جِلْدَكَ مِثْلُ ظُفْرِكْ فَتَوَّلَ أَنْتَ جَمِيعَ أَمْرِكْ " [Nothing has scratched thy skin like thy nail: so manage thou thyself all thine affair]. (Har pp. 432 et seq.) The saying, in a trad., إِذَا حَكَكْتُ قَرْحَةً دَمَّيْتُهَا [lit. When I scratch a sore, I make it bleed,] means (tropical:) when I desire an object, I attain it. (TA.) ― -b2- [Hence,] حَكَّ فِى صَدْرِى, and ↓ احكّ, and ↓ احتكّ, (K,) the first whereof, which is mentioned by IDrd preceded by the negative مَا, is the most approved, (TA,) (tropical:) It wrought, or operated, in, or upon, my mind: (K, TA:) said of a suggestion of the devil, that comes into one's mind. (TA.) Or حَكَّ فِى صَدْرِهِ كَذَا, aor. , means (assumed tropical:) Such a thing occurred to his mind as a thing outweighed in probability, or a matter of suspicion. (Msb.) And you say مَا حَكَّ فِى صَدْرِى (assumed tropical:) It did not make an impression upon my mind. (Har p. 648.) It is said in a trad., الإِثْمُ مَا حَكَّ فِى صَدْرِكَ (assumed tropical:) Sin is that which makes an impression upon thy mind, and induces a suspicion that it is an act of disobedience, because the mind is not dilated thereby. (Mgh. [See also حَاكَ, in arts. حوك and حيك; and see حَزَّ.]) You say also, مَا حَكَّ فِى صَدْرِى مِنْهُ شَىْءٌ (tropical:) Nothing thereof was unsettled, so as to be doubtful, in my mind. (S, TA.) And مَا حَكَّ فِى صَدْرِى كَذَا (tropical:) Such a thing did not cause dilatation [or pleasure] in my mind. (S, K, TA.) -A2- See also 8. -A3- حَكِكَتِ الدَّابَّةُ, aor. , (Kr, K,) a verb of an unusual form, with the reduplication distinct, like لَحِحَتْ in the phrase لَحِحَتْ عَيْنُهُ, &c., (TA,) The beast had its hoof worn away at the edges. (K, * TA.)

, inf. n. تَحْكِيكٌ, He scratched [&c.] well [or much.] (KL.)

, (TA,) inf. n. مُحَاكَّةٌ (S, K, KL) and حِكَاكٌ, (TA,) (tropical:) He emulated, rivalled, or imitated, him; [originally, I suppose, in scratching, or the like;] (K, KL, TA;) the inf. n. being syn. with مُبَارَاةٌ; (K, TA;) or like مُبَارَاةٌ. (S.) ― -b2- حاكّ الشَّرَّ (K) (tropical:) He produced, or effected, or brought to pass, evil, or mischief. (TK.)

see 8: ― -b2- and see also 1.

Such a one rubs, or scratches, himself against me; syn. يَتَمَرَّسُ بى: (S: so in two copies:) or (tropical:) becomes exasperated by me; syn. يَتَحَرَّشُ بى: (TA:) and addresses, or applies, himself to do evil, or mischief, to me. (S, K, TA.) لَقَدْ تَحَكَّكَتِ العَقْرَبُ بِالأَفْعَى (assumed tropical:) The scorpion has addressed itself to do evil, or mischief, to the viper, is a prov., applied to him who contends with his superior in strength and power, and does evil to him. (Har p. 478.)

[They scratched, scraped, rubbed, grated, chafed, or fretted, each other; or] their two bodies became in collision, and each of them scratched, &c., (حَكَّ,) the other. (K.) ― -b2- هٰذَا أَمْرٌ تَحَاكَّتْ فِيهِ الرُّكَبِ, and ↓ احتكّت, (tropical:) This is a case in which the knees are in contact, and in collision, is a saying by which is meant equality of station or rank, or the sitting together upon the knees in contending for superiority in glory or excellence or nobility. (TA.) ― -b3- [تحاكّ also signifies It became scraped off, or rubbed off, by degrees; the verb in this sense being similar to تساقط &c.: see حُكَاكَةٌ.]

He scratched, scraped, or rubbed, himself (حَكَّ نَفْسَهُ) against it; (S, K;) as the mangy or scabby [camel] does against a piece of wood. (TA.) ― -b2- احتكّ رَأْسِى My head induced me, or caused me, to scratch it; (دَعَانِى إِلَى حَكِّهِ;) [i. e. it itched;] as also ↓ أَحَكَّنِى and ↓ اِسْتَحَكَّنِى and ↓ حَكَّنِى; (K;) though this last is held by IB to be erroneous: (TA:) and in like manner one says of all the other members. (M, TA.) ― -b3- See also 1: ― -b4- and 6. ― -b5- احتكّ حَافِرُهُ مِنْ كَثْرَةِ السَّيْرِ [His hoof became chafed, abraded, or worn, by much travel]. (Ham p. 476.)

see 8.

(tropical:) Doubt (K, TA) in religion &c.; (TA;) as also ↓ حِكَّةٌ: (AA, TA:) because it makes an impression (يَحُكُّ) upon the mind. (TA.) -A2- حِكُّ شَرٍّ, explained in the K, as also شَرٍّ ↓ حِكَاكُ, by the words يُحَاكُّهُ كَثِيرًا, means (tropical:) A producer of much evil, or mischief: (TK:) it is a tropical phrase: and in like manner one says حِكُّ ضِغْنٍ (tropical:) [a producer of much rancour, malevolence, malice, or spite]: and حِكُّ مَالٍ (tropical:) [a producer of much wealth]. (TA.)

[An itching;] a subst. from اِحْتَكَّ as used in the phrase احتكّ ارأسى [q. v.]; as also ↓ حُكَاكٌ. (K.) ― -b2- And The جَرَب [i. e. mange, or scab]: (S, K:) or it differs from the latter; and is said to be the dry جَرَب: (MF:) or anything that one scratches; as the جَرَب and the like: (Mgh:) [in the present day particularly applied to the itch:] a certain cutaneous disease; said in the medical books to be a thin humour, causing swelling, originating beneath the skin, not accompanied with pus, but with what resembles bran, and quick in passing away. (Msb.) ― -b3- And hence (assumed tropical:) Lice. (Mgh.) -A2- See also حِكٌّ.

A wearing away at the edges in a beast's hoof. (K, * TA.) -A2- A gait in which is commotion, like the gait of a short woman who moves about her shoulder-joints. (Ibn-'Abbád, L, K.) -A3- Soft, or uncompact, white stones: (S:) or a kind of white stone, like marble, (K, TA,) more soft, or uncompact, than marble, but harder than gypsum: n. un. with ة: (TA:) or, with ة, ground in which are soft, or uncompact, stones, like marble: (ISh, TA:) or, accord. to ADk, ↓ حُكَكَاتٌ, with damm, and then fet-h, signifies ground in which are white stones, resembling أَقِط, that break into many pieces; and such is only in low land, (TA.)

(tropical:) Evil, or mischievous, persons. (IAar, K, TA.) ― -b2- And (tropical:) Such as are importunate in demanding things wanted. (IAar, K, TA.)