أحرج

• IPA^(key): /ʔaħ.ra.d͡ʒa/

أَحْرَجَ • (ʔaḥraja) IV (non-past يُحْرِجُ (yuḥriju), verbal noun إِحْرَاج (ʔiḥrāj))

1. to narrow, straiten, confine, cramp. hamper, impede, restrict
2. to embarrass, hinder
3. to put in a difficult or critical situation, to perplex

• Freytag, Georg (1830–1837) “أحرج”, in Lexicon arabico-latinum praesertim ex Djeuharii Firuzabadiique et aliorum Arabum operibus adhibitis Golii quoque et aliorum libris confectum‎ (in Latin), Halle: C. A. Schwetschke
• Baalbaki, Rohi (1995) “أحرج”, in Al-Mawrid: A Modern Arabic-English Dictionary, 7th edition, Beirut: Dar El-Ilm Lilmalayin, →ISBN
• Баранов, Х. К. (2011) “أحرج”, in Большой арабско-русский словарь (Bolʹšoj arabsko-russkij slovarʹ), 11th edition, Москва: Живой язык, →ISBN
• Lane, Edward William (1863) “أحرج”, in Arabic-English Lexicon‎, London: Williams & Norgate
• Wehr, Hans (1960) “أحرج”, in J. Milton Cowan, editor, A Dictionary of Modern Written Arabic, 3rd edition, Ithaca, NY: Otto Harrassowitz

Learned borrowing from Arabic أَحْرَجَ (ʔaḥraja).

• IPA^(key): /ʔaħ.raʒ/, ,

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أحرج • (ʔaḥraj) IV (present بحرج (biḥrej))

1. to embarrass

   Synonym: خجّل (ḵajjal)