حَنِقَ
1.
, (S, Msb, K,) aorist
حَنَقَ
, (Msb, K,) verbal noun حَنَقٌ (S, * Msb, K) and حَنِقٌ, (K,) He was, or became, angered, or enraged: (S, Msb, K:) or vehemently angered or enraged: (K, Ham p. 29:) عَلَيْهِ
against him: (S:) or it may be from the signification of “ cleaving, ” or “ sticking; ” as though meaning (assumed tropical:) rancour, malevolence, malice, or spite, clave to his bosom. (Ham p. 29. [See also حَنَقٌ, below.])
2.
[Hence,] لَا يَحْنَقُ عَلَى
جِرَّتِهِ: and ما يحنق على جِرَّةٍ: [thus written in the TA; though it seems to be implied by the manner in which the two sayings are there introduced, in this article, that the verb in each case is
يُحْنِقُ, from أَحْنَقَ in the first of the senses assigned to it below:] see جِرَّةٌ.