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ز ج ر

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Morphology · Lane's Lexicon · CC BY-SA 3.0

From Edward William Lane, An Arabic-English Lexicon (1863–1893), under the root زجر. Digitised by the Perseus Project (Tufts); Arabic decoded from Perseus's transliteration.

زَجَرَهُ , (S, A, Mgh, Msb, K,) aor. زَجُرَ , (Msb, TA,) inf. n. زَجْرٌ , (S, A, Msb,) He chid him, by a cry, by his voice, or by reproof: (S, * K, * TA:) he checked him, restrained him, or forbade him, with rough speech: (TA:) or prevented, hindered, restrained, or withheld, him: or forbade, or prohibited, him: [by any kind of cry or speech:] as also ↓ ازدجرهُ ; (S, A, Mgh, Msb, K;) the latter originally ازتجرهُ : (Msb, TA:) عَنْ كَذَا from [doing] such a thing: (A, * Mgh, TA:) and عَنِ السُّوْءِ from evil. (TA.) ― -b2- زَجَرَ الكَلْبَ , (K,) and السَّبُعَ , (TA,) and زَجَرَ بِهِ (K,) (assumed tropical:) He cried out to, or at, the dog, (K,) and the beast of prey, (TA,) in order that he might forbear, refrain, or abstain. (K, TA.) [See a tropical ex. voce حِنْوٌ .] ― -b3- زَجَرَ البَعِيرَ (tropical:) He incited the camel to quickness: (TA:) he drove, or urged, the camel, (S, K, TA,) and incited him with a peculiar cry, so that he became excited, and went on: (TA:) he said to the camel حَوْبِ : and زَجَرَ النَّاقَةَ (assumed tropical:) He said to the she-camel حَلْ : (AZ, TA:) and زَجَرَ الغَنَمَ (tropical:) He (a pastor) cried out to, or at, the sheep or goats: (A, Mgh, TA:) and in like manner, to or at, a horse or the like, and a camel, and a beast of prey, with a high, or loud, voice, and vehemently: (TA:) and الرِّيحُ تَزْجُرُ السَّحَابَ (tropical:) [The wind drives the clouds]. (A.) ― -b4- زَجْرٌ signifies The driving away with crying or a cry: and by subsequent applications, sometimes, (assumed tropical:) the driving away: and sometimes (assumed tropical:) the crying, or crying out, or a cry. (B, TA.) ― -b5- زَجَرَ الطَّايءِرَ , (K,) aor. زَجُرَ , inf. n. زَجْرٌ ; (TA;) and ↓ ازدجرهُ ; (K;) (tropical:) He chid the bird, auguring evil from it. (K, TA.) ― -b6- And زَجَرَ الطَّيْرَ (tropical:) He threw a pebble at the birds, and cried out; and if, in flying, they turned their right sides towards him, he augured well from them; but if their left sides, evil. (A.) ― -b7- Hence, (A,) زَجْرٌ also signifies (tropical:) The auguring from the flight, alightingplaces, cries, kinds, or names, of birds: (S, A, K:) you say, هُوَ يَزْجُرُ الطَّيْرَ He augurs from the flight, &c., of birds: (A:) or زَجْرٌ signifies the auguring well from a bird's or some other thing's سُنُوح [or turning the right side towards one, or the contrary], and evil from its بُرُوح [or turning the left side towards one, or the contrary]. (Zj.) And زَجَرَ غُرَابَ البَيْنِ means (assumed tropical:) He went away, departed, or journeyed. (Har p. 308.) ― -b8- [Hence,] it also signifies (tropical:) The practising of divination: (K:) or a species thereof: you say, زَجَرْتُ أَنَّهُ يَكُونُ كَذَا وَكَذَا I have divined that it is so and so. (S, L.) [See also زَاجِرٌ ] ― -b9- زَجَرَتْ بِمَا فِى بَطْنِهَا (assumed tropical:) She (a camel) cast forth what was in her belly. (K, TA.)

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تَزَاجَرُوا عَنِ المُنْكَرِ [They checked, restrained, or forbade, one another, with rough speech; or] they prevented, hindered, or withheld one another; or they forbade, or prohibited, one another; from abominable, foul, or evil, conduct. (A, Msb.)

انزجر and ↓ اِزْدَجَرَ He, being chidden, by a cry, by the voice, or by reproof; or being checked, restrained, or forbidden, with rough speech; (TA;) or being prevented, hindered, restrained, or withheld; or being forbidden or prohibited; refrained, forbore, or abstained; (S, A, Mgh, Msb, K, TA;) عَنْ كَذَا from [doing] such a thing. (Mgh, TA.) ― -b2- ↓ ا@زْدُجِرَ , in the Kur liv. 9, means He was driven away. (TA.) ― -b3- انزجر He (a dog) became urged, or incited, by a cry, to pursue the game. (Mgh.)

اِزْدَجَرَ , for اِزْتَجَرَ , trans. and intrans.: see 1 and 7; each in two places.

(accord. to the S). زَنْجَرَ : see art. زنجر .

زَجْرٌ inf. n. of 1. (S, A, Msb.) ― -b2- A crying at camels [&c.], and an urging or inciting of them. (TA.) ― -b3- A cry by which one chides, i. e., either checks or urges, a beast &c.; like صَهْ to a man, and عَدَسْ to a mule, &c. (The lexicons, passim.) -A2- See also what next follows.

زَجَرٌ (Az, O, K) and ↓ زَجْرٌ (IDrd, O, K) Large fish, (K,) [i. e.] a species of large fish, (IDrd, O,) with small scales: (TA:) IDrd says, thus called by the people of El-'Irák, but I do not think the appellation to be genuine Arabic: (O:) pl. زُجُورٌ . (O, K.)

زَجْرَةٌ A cry. (Mgh.)

زَجُورٌ (tropical:) A she-camel that will not yield her milk abundantly until chidden: (A, K, TA:) or that yields her milk abundantly to her young one if beaten, but does not if let alone: (TA:) or (K, TA, but accord. to the CK “ and ”) a she-camel that knows [her young one] with her eye, but repudiates it with her nose [when she smells it]: (S, K:) and a she-camel that inclines to the young one of another, and not to her own, but only smells it, and refuses to yield her milk to it; syn. عَلُوقٌ . (K.) ― -b2- It is also applied, metaphorically, as an epithet to war. (A, TA.)

[ زَجَّارٌ One who chides, &c., much, or often.]

زَاجِرٌ [act. part. n. of 1]. ― -b2- [Hence,] كَفَى بِالقُرْا=نِ زَاجِرًا (tropical:) [The Kur-án suffices as a chider, checker, restrainer, or forbidder]. (A, TA.) And الزَّاجِرُ (assumed tropical:) The exhorter, on the part of God, in the heart of the believer; i. e. the light shed into it, [or what we term the light of nature,] that invites him to the truth. (KT.) ― -b3- الزَّاجِرَاتُ , in the Kur xxxvii. 2, means (tropical:) The angels who are the drivers of the clouds. (K, * TA.) ― -b4- زَاجِرٌ also signifies (tropical:) A diviner; because, when he sees that which he thinks to be of evil omen, he cries out with a high, or loud, and vehement, voice, forbidding to undertake the thing in question. (Zj, TA.) ― -b5- أَبُو زَاجِرٍ (assumed tropical:) The crow; because one augurs by means of it. (Har p. 662.)

[ زَاجِرَةٌ a subst. formed from the epithet زَاجِرٌ by the addition of ة . Its pl. occurs in the saying,] كَرِّرَتْ عَلَى سَمْعِهِ المَوَاعِظُ وَالزَّوَاجِرُ (tropical:) [Exhortations, and chiding or restraining speeches, were repeated in his ears]. (A, TA.)

زِنْجِيرٌ and زِنْجِيرَةٌ : see art. زنجر .

أَزْجَرُ A camel having a looseness in the vertebræ of his back, arising from disease, or from galls, or sores, produced by the saddle: (O, K: *) [or having a fracture in his back;] like أَخْزَلُ . (O.)

مَزْجَرٌ [A place of زَجْر , i. e. chiding, &c.]. ― -b2- [Hence,] هُوَ مِنِّى مَزْجَرَ الكَلْبِ , an elliptical phrase, meaning (tropical:) [He is, in relation to me, or مِنِّى is here used in the sense of عِنْدِى , i. e., in my estimation,] as though he were in the مزجر of the dog; (Sb, TA;) [i. e., as though he were to be chidden like the dog, and driven away;] said by Z to be tropical. (TA.)

مَزْجَرَةٌ [A cause of زَجْر , i. e. chiding, &c.: a noun of the same class as مَبْخَلَةٌ &c.; pl. مَزَاجِرُ ]. A poet says, مَنْ كَانَ لَا يَزْعُمُ أَنِّى شَاعِرُ فَلْيَدْنُ مِنِّى تَنْهَهُ المَزَاجِرُ i. e. (assumed tropical:) [He who will not assert that I am a poet, let him approach me:] preventing causes forbid him. (TA.) And one says, ذِكْرُ ا@للّٰهِ مَزْجَرَةٌ لِلشَّيْطَانِ (tropical:) [The remembrance, or the mention, of God is a cause of driving away the devil]. (A, TA.)

مُزْدَجَرٌ , in the Kur liv. 4, (Bd, TA,) is [an inf. n.,] syn. with اِزْدِجَارٌ , (Bd,) meaning (assumed tropical:) Depulsion, and prevention, or prohibition, from the commission of sinful actions; (TA;) or from punishment: or it there means a threatening: and some read مَزَّجَرٌ , changing the د into ز , and incorporating it [into the preceding letter]. (Bd.)

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