حَرِجٌ
1.
and
حَرَجٌ A strait, narrow, confined, or close, place: (TA:) or strait, narrow, confined, or close, in the utmost degree: (Zj, T:) or a strait, narrow, confined, or close, place, abounding with trees, (S, K,) and impenetrable to the pasturing animals: (S:) and
حَرِيجٌ, also, applied to a place, signifies the same as حَرِجٌ. (TA.)
2.
صَدْرٌ حَرِجٌ (S, Msb, TA) and
حَرَجٌ, (S, A, TA,) like وَحِدٌ and وَحَدٌ, and فَرِدٌ and فَرَدٌ, and دَنِفٌ and دَنَفٌ, (S,) A bosom strait, or contracted; (A, Msb, TA;) not expanded, or dilated, by reason of what is good. (TA.) يَجْعَلْ صَدْرَهُ ضَيِّقًا حَرِجًا or
حَرَجًا, according to different readings, [in the Qur'an, 6:125,] (S,) is explained by I 'Ab as meaning He will make his bosom strait. (assumed tropical:) impenetrable to wisdom. (TA.)
3.
Also حَرِجٌ and
حَرَجٌ A man having a strait, or contracted, bosom, which does not expand, or dilate, by reason of what is good: the former has a dual and a plural; but the latter has only the singular form, because it is [properly, or originally,] a verbal noun: Zj says that the former is a particle n., and that by the latter is meant ذُو حَرَجٍ. (TA.)
4.
And the former, (assumed tropical:) One who fears, or dreads, to venture upon an affair. (TA.)
5.
And (assumed tropical:) That seldom, or never, withdraws from fight: (K:) that will not be put to flight; as though it were difficult for him to find an excuse for being put to flight. (TA.)
6.
And Committing a sin, a crime, or an act of disobedience for which he deserves punishment; (Msb;) and so
حَارِجٌ, which is thought by ISd to be after the manner of a rel. n., because it has no corresponding verb [of which it may be regarded as the particle n.; the regular particle n. being حَرِجٌ, as حَرِجَ is intrans.]. (TA.)
7.
Also (assumed tropical:) Abstaining from sin, or crime; and so
حَرَجٌ and
مُتَحَرِّجٌ. (TA.) [Thus bearing two contr. significations. See 5.]