حَرِجَ

, aorist حَرَجَ , verbal noun حَرَجٌ, It (a number of things) became collected together: and, necessarily, became close, strait, or narrow: (so according to an explanation of the verbal noun by Er-Rághib, in the TA:) said of anything, it was, or became, close, strait, or narrow. (KL.) One says of dust, حَرِجَ إِلَى حَايءِطٍ, or سَنَدٍ, It rose, (Lth, Az, TA,) in a narrow place, (TA,) and became collected [against a wall, or an acclivity or the like]. (Lth, Az, TA.)

حَرِجَ صَدْرُهُ, aorist and verbal noun as above, (assumed tropical:) His bosom became strait, or contracted; (S, A, Mgh, Msb, TA;) not expanded, or dilated, by reason of what was good. (TA.) And حَرِجَ alone, aorist and verbal noun as above, (assumed tropical:) He became disquieted, and contracted in bosom: and (assumed tropical:) he became in doubt; he doubted; because doubt disquiets the mind. (So according to explanations of the verbal noun by Er-Rághib, in the TA.)

Also حَرِجَ, aorist and verbal noun as above, [(assumed tropical:) He became straitened, or in difficulty: and particularly, by the commission of a sin, or crime: (see حَرَجٌ, below:) and hence, simply,] (assumed tropical:) he committed a sin, a crime, or an act of disobedience for which he deserved punishment. (Msb.)

Also He looked, and was unable to move from his place by reason of fear and rage. (T, TA.) And حَرِجَتِ العَيْنُ, (S, A, K,) aorist حَرَجَ , (K,) verbal noun as above, (TA,) (tropical:) The eye became dazzled, (حَارَت, S, K, TA,) or sank in its socket, (غَارَت,) and its vision became straitened: (A, TA:) or it did not turn about, nor wink, by reason of intent gazing. (TA.)

Also, (S, A, K,) aorist as above, (K,) and so the verbal noun, (S, K,) (tropical:) It was, or became, forbidden, or prohibited, (S, A, K,) and attended with straitness, or difficulty. (A.) So in the saying, حَرِجَ عَلَىَّ ظُلْمُكَ (tropical:) The wronging of thee is forbidden, or prohibited, to me. (S, TA.) And حَرِجَ عَلَيْهِ السَّحُورُ (tropical:) The meal termed سحور became forbidden, or prohibited, to him, (A, TA,) namely, a man fasting, and attended with difficulty, (A,) by reason of the straitness of the time thereof. (TA.) And حَرِجَتِ الصَّلَاةُ (tropical:) Prayer became forbidden, or prohibited, (A, and TA as from the K, [but not found by me in the copies of the K,]) عَلَيْهَا to her [by reason of legal impurity, as is shown in the A]. (A, TA.)

حَرِجَ إِلَيْهِ (tropical:) He betook himself, or had recourse, to him, or it, for protection from a strait, or difficulty. (TA.) And حَرِجَ إِلَى كَذَا وَ كَذَا (assumed tropical:) He betook himself to such and such things. (TA.)