حُورِفَ
1.
He was debarred from the means of subsistence; because he of whom this is said is aloof (بِحَرْفٍ) from the means of subsistence. (Mgh.) And حُورِفَ كَسْبُ فُلَانٍ
Such a one was made to experience difficulty (S, TA) in his buying and selling, and was straitened (TA) in his means of subsistence; as though his means of subsistence were turned away from him: (S, TA:) or he had his gain, or earnings, turned away from him. (Msb.) It is said in a tradition of Ibn-Mes'ood, مَوْتُ المُوءْمِنِ عَرَقُ الجَبِينِ تَبْقَى عَلَيْهِ البَقِيَّةِمِنَ
الذُّنُوبِ فَيُحَارِفُ بِهَا عِنْدَ المَوْتِ, i. e. [The death of the believer is accompanied with sweating of the side of the forehead: some sins remain chargeable against him, and] he is made to experience difficulty by them [in dying], in order that his sins may be diminished. (S.)
2.
مُحَارَفَةٌ has also a meaning like مُفَاخَرَةٌ: Sá'ideh says,
[And they certainly know, in warfare, how we vie for superiority in glory: or] according to Skr, it means how we deal with them; as when one says to a man, What is thy حِرْفَة (i. e. thine occupation) and thy lineage? (TA:) [or the meaning may be how we requite; for]فَقَدْ عَلِمُوا فِى الغَزْوِ كَيْفَ نُحَارِفُ
3.
حارفهُ بِسُوْءٍ signifies He requited him for evil (K, TA) that he had done. (TA.) And it is said in a tradition, إِنَّ العَبْدِ لَيُحَارَفُ
عَنْ عَمَلِهِ الخَيْرَ أَوْ الشَّرَّ, i. e. [Verily the servant] shall be requited [for his deed; the good I mean, or the evil]. (IAar, TA.) And
احرف also signifies He requited for good or evil. (IAar, K.)
4.
مُحَارَفَةٌ signifies also The measuring a wound with the
مِحْرَاف, i. e. the probe. (K, * TA.)