حرج

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Arabic

Root
ح ر ج (ḥ r j)
3 terms

Pronunciation

Verb

حَرِجَ (ḥarija) I (non-past يَحْرَجُ (yaḥraju), verbal noun حَرَج (ḥaraj))

  1. to be in a critical situation
  2. to be forbidden
  3. to commit a sin, an offense

Conjugation

Verb

حَرَّجَ (ḥarraja) II (non-past يُحَرِّجُ (yuḥarriju), verbal noun تَحْرِيج (taḥrīj))

  1. to embarrass, to hinder
  2. to prohibit

Conjugation

Noun

حَرَج (ḥarajm

  1. tightness, difficulty, critical situation
  2. constraint, limitation, restriction
    بِلَا حَرَجٍbilā ḥarajinunhesitatingly (lit. without restriction)

Declension

References

  • Freytag, Georg (1830–1837) “حرج”, 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) “حرج”, in Al-Mawrid: A Modern Arabic-English Dictionary, 7th edition, Beirut: Dar El-Ilm Lilmalayin, →ISBN
  • Баранов, Х. К. (2011) “حرج”, in Большой арабско-русский словарь (Bolʹšoj arabsko-russkij slovarʹ), 11th edition, Москва: Живой язык, →ISBN
  • Lane, Edward William (1863) “حرج”, in Arabic-English Lexicon, London: Williams & Norgate
  • Wehr, Hans (1960) “حرج”, in J. Milton Cowan, editor, A Dictionary of Modern Written Arabic, 3rd edition, Ithaca, NY: Otto Harrassowitz