khinzīr

pig, hog

خِنْزِير

Word

Noun · pattern فِنْعِيل

Root

خ ز ر

Forms

Plural
خَنازِير

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إِنَّمَا حَرَّمَ عَلَيْكُمُ الْمَيْتَةَ وَالدَّمَ وَلَحْمَ الْخِنْزِيرِ وَمَا أُهِلَّ بِهِ لِغَيْرِ اللَّهِ ۖ فَمَنِ اضْطُرَّ غَيْرَ بَاغٍ وَلَا عَادٍ فَلَا إِثْمَ عَلَيْهِ ۚ إِنَّ اللَّهَ غَفُورٌ رَحِيمٌ

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Lane's Lexicon

Arabic–English, 1863–93 · 12 entries
  • خَزِرَتِ العيْنُ Form I The eye was, or became, narrow and small
    , aor. , (Msb,) inf. n. خَزَرٌ, (S, A, Mgh, Msb, K,) The eye was, or became, narrow and small: (S, A, Mgh, Msb, K:) or it contracted its sight, naturally: (K:) or خَزِرَ, aor. , (K,) inf. n. as above, (S, K,) signifies he (a man) was as though he looked from the outer angle of the eye: (S, A: *) or he looked as though on one side: or he opened and closed his eyes; (K;) or, his eye: (M:) or he had a distortion (حَوَلٌ) of one of his eyes: (K:) [or he had eyes looking towards his nose; or, looking sideways; (see أَخْزَرُ;) or, looking towards their outer angles; (see خُزْرَةٌ;) see also 2, and 6, and Q. Q. 1.] -A2- خَزَرَهُ, aor. , (TA,) inf. n. خَزْرٌ, (K,) He looked at him from the outer angle of the eye; (K, * TA;) as one does in pride, and in light estimation of the object at which he looks. (MF.) A poet says, " لَا تَخْزُرِ القَوْمَ شَزْرًا عَنْ مُعَارَضَةٍ " [Look not thou at the people from the outer angle of the eye, askew, sideways]. (TA.) -A3- خَزَرَ [as an intrans. v.] He affected, or pretended, to be cunning; i. e. intelligent, or sagacious; or intelligent with a mixture of craft and forecast; syn. تَدَاهَى. (IAar, K. [See also 2.]) -A4- Also He fled. (K.)
  • خزّر Form II He made narrow
    , (TA,) inf. n. تَخْزِيرٌ, (K,) He made narrow. (K, TA.) You say, خزّر عَيْنَيْهِ He (an old man) narrowed his eyes; contracted his eyelids as though they were sewed together; to collect the light: when a young man does so, يَتَدَاهَى بِذٰلِكَ [i. e. he affects, or pretends, thereby, to be cunning; i. e. intelligent, or sagacious; or intelligent with a mixture of craft and forecast]. (IAar. [See also خَزَرَ: and see 6.])
  • تخازر Form VI He looked from the outer angle of his eye
    He looked from the outer angle of his eye. (TA. [See also Q. Q. 1.]) ― -b2- He pretended, or made a show of, what is termed خَزَرٌ: [see 1.] (TA, and Har p. 62.) ― -b3- He contracted his eyelids, to sharpen the sight: (S, Msb, K:) a verb similar to تعامى and تجاهل. (S. [See also 2.])
  • خَنْزَرَ He looked from the outer angles of his eyes
    He looked from the outer angles of his eyes: from the subst. خِنْزِيرٌ, because the animal so called is أَخْزَرُ. (A. [See also 6.]) ― -b2- Also He acted like the swine. (TA in art. خنزر.)
  • خَزَرٌ Open entry
    [commonly known only as inf. n. of خَزِرَ or خَزِرَتِ العَيْنُ]: see خَزِيرٌ.
  • خَزِرُ العَيْنِ Open entry
    : see أَخْزَرُ.
  • خَزْرَةٌ Open entry
    : see خُزَرَةٌ.
  • خُزْرَةٌ A turning of the pupil towards the outer angle of the eye
    A turning of the pupil towards the outer angle of the eye. (TA. [See 1.])
  • خُزَرَةٌ A pain in the back
    (ISk, S, K) and ↓ خَزْرَةٌ (K) A pain in the back: (K:) a pain in a vertebra of the back: (S:) a pain in the slender part of the back, in [the vertebra called] فِقْرَةُ القَطَنِ: (TA:) the pl. of the former is خُزَرَاتٌ. (S, TA.)
  • خَزِيرٌ A kind of food like
    and ↓ خَزِيرَةٌ A kind of food like عَصِيدَة with flesh-meat; (K;) made of flesh-meat (S, TA) that has remained throughout a night, (TA,) cut into small pieces, and put into a cooking-pot with abundance of water, (S, TA,) and with salt; (TA;) and when it is thoroughly cooked, some flour is sprinkled upon it, (S, TA,) and it is stirred about with it, and seasoned with any seasoning that the maker pleases to add: (TA:) when there is no flesh-meat, it is called عَصِيدَة: (S, K, TA:) or a broth made with the water in which bran has been soaked, (Mgh, K, TA,) which water is strained, and then cooked: (Mgh, TA:) this is what is called by the Persians سَبُوسَبَا: (Mgh:) [see also حَرِيرَةٌ:] or خَزِيرَة is flour thrown upon water or upon milk, and cooked, and then eaten with dates, or supped: it is also called سَخِينَةٌ and سَخُونَةٌ and نَفِيتَةٌ and حُذْرُقَّةٌ: حَرِيَرة is thinner: (AHeyth, on the authority of an Arab of the desert:) and a soup made of grease or gravy (K) and flour; (TA;) as also ↓ خَزَرٌ: (K:) but no one except the author of the K mentions this last form: in the other lexicons, soup of grease or gravy is said only to be called خَزِيرٌ and خَزِيرَةٌ. (TA.)
  • خَزِيرَةٌ Open entry
    : see the next preceding paragraph.
  • خَازِرٌ possessing much cunning
    A man possessing much cunning; i. e. intelligence, or sagacity; or intelligence with a mixture of craft and forecast. (AA, K.)

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