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حصّنهُ حاص حصان حصن حصنه حصننه حصنة , [inf. n. تَحْصِينٌ ;] and ↓ احصنهُ ; He made it, or rendered it, inaccessible, or unapproachable, or difficult of access; (Msb, K;) he made it, or rendered it, unattainable, by reason of its height; (Msb;) he fortified it, or protected it against attack, so that one could not gain access to what was within it; (Mgh;) namely, a place. (Mgh, Msb.) حَصَّنْتُ القَرْيَةَ I built a wall around the town, or village. (S.) ― -b2- For the former verb, see also 4. -A2- And see 5.

احصنهُ احصنه احصنة أحصن أحصنه أحصننه أحصنة حصان حصن : see 2. ― -b2- Also He, (God,) or it, (a coat of mail [or the like],) protected, or defended, him. (Fr, Mgh, * TA.) ― -b3- العِفَّةُ تُحْصِنُ مِنَ الرِّيبَةِ [Continence, or chastity, preserves from suspicion, or evil opinion]. (Mgh.) ― -b4- الَّتِى أَحْصَنَتْ فَرْجَهَا , in the Kur [xxi. 91 and lxvi. last verse], means Who preserved her pudendum from that which is unlawful or indecorous; (Zj, Mgh, * TA;) who abstained from what is unlawful or indecorous; or was continent, or chaste. (Msb.) ― -b5- احصن المَرْأَةَ He (her husband) caused the woman to abstain from that which is unlawful or indecorous, or to be continent or chaste; (S, Mgh, K; *) as also ↓ حَصَّنَهَا . (K.) And احصنهُ التَّزَوُّجُ [Marriage caused him to abstain from that which is unlawful &c.]. (K.) ― -b6- [Also He married the woman; i. e. gave her in marriage.] See أُحْصِنَتْ above, in the first paragraph. In the Kur iv. 30, some read فَاـِذَا أُحْصِنَّ , meaning And when they are married. (S, TA.) And a poet says, أَحْصَنُوا أُمَّهُمُ مِنْ عَبْدِهِمْ تِلْكَ أَفْعَالُ القِزَامِ الوَكَعَهْ i. e. They married [their mother to their slave: such are the deeds of the mean, the base]. (S.) -A2- أَحْصَنَتْ , intrans.: see 1, in two places. ― -b2- In the Kur iv. 30, some read فَاـِذَا أَحْصَنَّ ; and accord. to Ibn-Mes'ood, this, said of female slaves, means And when they are Muslimehs. (TA.) Accord. to Aboo-Haneefeh, الاـِحْصَانُ in a case of stoning involves six conditions; The being a Muslimeh, and free, and of sound intellect, and of the age of puberty, and validly married, and having had her marriage consummated: and in a case of charging with adultery, the being a Muslimeh, and free, and of sound intellect, and of the age of puberty, and continent, or chaste. (Mgh.) ― -b3- And أحْصَنَ He (a man, S, Msb) married, or took a wife. (S, Msb, K.) With the lawyers, اـِحْصَانٌ means The act of coïtus conjugalis in a case of valid marriage; and accord. to Esh-Sháfi'ee, by a free man who has attained to puberty, and in the case of a free woman who has attained to puberty, among the Muslims and the believers in a plurality of gods; meaning, in a case of valid marriage. (Msb.)

تحصّن أحصن حاص حصن تحصن تحصنن , said of the enemy, (S, TA,) [He fortified himself: or] he entered the [or a] حِصْن [or fortress]: or protected himself by it: or took it, or made it, as a place of abode. (TA.) ― -b2- And hence, He guarded, or protected, himself in any way. (TA.) ― -b3- See also 1. ― -b4- Also He (a horse, TA) became a حِصَان , (K,) i. e. a stallion, or fit to cover: (TA voce رَاحَ :) or affected to be so: (Az, TA:) [and so ↓ حَصَّنَ or حُصِّنَ ; for] a horse in this case is said to bear evidence of التَّحَصُّن and التَّحْصِين . (S, * K, TA.)

حِصْنٌ حاص حصان حصن حصنن [A fortress; a fort; a fortified place;] a place of which the interior is inaccessible; (K;) any place that is fortified, or protected against attack, so that one cannot gain access to what is within it; (Mgh;) a place that is unattainable, by reason of its height; (Msb;) a fortified city: (TA:) pl. [of mult.] حُصُونٌ (S, Msb, K) and حِصَنَةٌ and [of pauc.] أَحْصَانٌ . (K.) [Hence,] أَبُو الحِصْنِ : see أَبُو الحُصَينِ , below. [Hence, also,] خَيْلُ العَرَبِ حُصُونُهَا ذُكُرُهَا وَاـِنَاثُهَا (tropical:) [The horses of the Arabs are their حُصُون ; the males thereof and the females thereof]. (TA.) A man said to 'Abd-Allah Ibn-El-Hasan, “ My father has left the third of his property for the حُصُون : ” and he replied “ Buy thou horses: ” so in the A: in the M, “ Buy thou therewith horses, and mount [men] on them [to fight] in the cause of God. ” (TA.) ― -b2- [Hence, also,] (tropical:) Arms. (K, TA.) You say, جَا=ءَ يَحْمِلُ حِصْنًا (tropical:) He came bearing arms. (TA.) ― -b3- Also The [new moon; or the moon when it is termed] هِلَال : in the K, الهَلَاكُ is erroneously put for الهِلَالُ . (TA.)

حَصْنَا=ءُ حصنا=ء : see what next follows.

حَصَانٌ حصان (S, Mgh, Msb, K) and ↓ حَاصِنٌ (S, Mgh, K) and ↓ حَاصِنَةٌ (K) and ↓ حَصْنَا=ءُ (S, K) and ↓ مُحْصِنَةٌ (Th, S, Mgh, Msb, K) and ↓ مُحْصَنَةٌ , (Th, S, Msb, K,) applied to a woman, Continent, or chaste; or abstaining from what is not lawful nor decorous, (Th, S, Mgh, Msb, K,) or from that which induces suspicion or evil opinion: (Sh and TA in explanation of the first of these epithets:) or married; having a husband: (K:) or حَصَانٌ has both of these significations: (Ham p. 101:) and accord. to Th, (S,) ↓ مُحْصَنَةٌ , with fet-h only, has the latter signification; (S, Mgh, * Msb; *) and means caused to be continent or chaste, or to abstain from that which is unlawful or indecorous, by her husband: (Mgh: [and the same is implied in the S:]) and this epithet is also applied to a woman emancipated: and to one having become a Muslimeh: (Az, TA:) [certain particular applications of ↓ مُحْصِنَةٌ have been implicatively shown above: see 4:] the pl. of حَصَانٌ is حُصُنٌ and حَصَانَاتٌ : and the pl. of ↓ حَاصِنٌ and ↓ حَاصِنَةٌ is حَوَاصِنُ and حَاصَنَاتٌ : the former of which ( حواصن ) also signifies pregnant, (K,) applied to women: (TA:) the pl. محصنات , in the first instance of its occurrence in ch. iv. [verse 28] of the Kur, is read by all ↓ مُحْصَنَات , (A 'Obeyd, TA,) meaning having husbands; (A 'Obeyd, Mgh, Msb, TA;) because when such women are made captives, their marriage-tie is cut: but in other instances, some read thus, understanding it in the sense last explained; and others read ↓ مُحْصِنَات , as meaning that have become Muslimehs: (A 'Obeyd, TA:) in the Kur iv. 29, it means free women: and in the Kur v. 7, continent, or chaste, women: (Mgh: [in the Msb, it is said to have the latter of these last two meaning in iv. 29, and the former of them in v. 7:]) ↓ مُحْصَنَات is the more common in the language of the Arabs. (Fr, TA.) ― -b2- حَصَانٌ also signifies A pearl, or a large pearl; syn. دُرَّةٌ : (K:) because it is protected in the interior of the shell that contains it. (TA.)

حِصَانٌ حصان A generous, or high-bred, horse, (Msb, K,) of whose seed one is niggardly: (K:) or a male horse: (Mgh, K:) or this latter is a secondary meaning, originating from frequency of usage: (S, Msb:) or a stallion horse; or one fit to cover: (TA voce رَاحَ :) the حِصَان is. so called because he preserves his rider: (TA:) or because his back is like the حِصْن to his rider; (Mgh, Msb;) wherefore horses are called حُصُونٌ : (Mgh:) or because one is niggardly of his seed, so that he is not made to cover any but a generous mare: (S, Mgh, Msb:) pl. حُصُنٌ . (Mgh, Msb, K.)

حَصِبينٌ حصبين , applied to a place, (Msb, TA,) or to a حِصْن [or fortress], (S,) Inaccessible, or unapproachable, or difficult of access; syn. مَنِيعٌ ; (Msb, K; *) [unattainable, by reason of its height; fortified, or protected against attack, so that one cannot gain access to what is within it; (see حَصُنَ , of which it is the part. n.;)] a building that protects him who has recourse to it for refuge. (Sb, TA.) ― -b2- هُوَ الحَصِينُ أَنْ يُرَامَ , meaning مِنْ أَنْ يُرَامَ ↓ أَحْصَنُ : see (near its end) the first paragraph in art. ال . ― -b3- دِرْعٌ (K) and حَصِينَةٌ (Sh, K) A coat of mail firmly, strongly, or compactly made: (K:) or trusty, or trusted in, having the rings [for الخلق in the L and TA, I read الحَلَق ,] near together; such that weapons produce no effect upon it: (Sh, L, TA:) so called because it is [as] a حِصْن to the body. (Er-Rághib, TA.)

[ حُصَيْنٌ حصين dim. of حِصْنٌ . ― -b2- Hence,] أَبُوالحُصَيْنِ The fox; syn. الثَّعْلَبُ ; (S, K;) so called because of his protecting himself from causes of harm by his acuteness; (Har p. 663;) as also أَبُو ↓ الحِصْنِ . (M, K.)

حَاصَنٌ حاصن and حَاصِنَةٌ : see حَصَانٌ , in four places. ― -b2- The latter also signifies A man's wife: and so حَاضِنَةٌ . (TA.)

أَحْصَنُ [More, and most, strongly fortified, or protected against attack]. (TA in art. لوم .) See also حَصِينٌ .

مُحْصَنٌ محص محصن Wheat stored up. (TA in art. عسى .) ― -b2- A man caused, by marriage, to abstain from that which is unlawful or indecorous, or to be continent or chaste; expl. by قَدْ أَحْصَنَهُ التَّزَوُّجُ . (K.) And A man married, or having a wife; (S, Msb, K;) as also ↓ مُحْصِنٌ : (Zj, Msb:) the former anomalous [if أُحْصِنَ be not allowable as meaning, like أَحْصَنَ , “ he married, ” or “ took a wife: ” but see 1 and 4]. (S, Msb.) For the fem., مُحْصَنَةٌ , and its pl., مُحْصَنَاتٌ , see حَصَانٌ , in four places.

مُحْصِنٌ محص محصن : see مُحْصَنٌ : and for the fem., مُحْصِنَةٌ , and its pl., مُحْصِنَاتٌ , see حَصَانٌ , in three places.

مِحْصَنٌ محص محصن A lock; syn. قُفْلٌ . (K.) ― -b2- The piece of iron that extends upwards upon the nose of the horse, having its base in the كِعَامَة , which is the iron thing that embraces, or clasps, ( تَلْتَقِمُ ,) the muzzle of the horse. (IDrd in his book on the Saddle and Bridle, pp. 8-9.) [Jac. Schultens, as cited in Freytag's Lex., explains it as Ferramentum quoddam in fræno equi et frænum ipsum.] ― -b3- A [basket of the kind called] زَبِيل : (K:) one should not say مِحْصَنَةٌ . (TA.)