Classical Arabic - English Dictionary

حَصْرَمَ, [inf. n. حَصْرَمَةٌ,] He braced his bow, making the string tight, or tense. (Ṣ, Ḳ.)

He twisted a rope strongly. (Ḳ.)

He filled (AḤn, Ḳ) a vessel, (AḤn, TA,) or a skin: (Ḳ:) or he filled a skin so that it became strait [or tense]. (TA.)

He pared and shaped a reed for writing. (Ḳ.)

[Golius has added the signification “Excitavit,” as on the authority of the KL; but in my copy of that work, I find, as the inf. n. of the verb having this signification, حَثْحَثَةٌ, which immediately follows the significations of حَصْرَمَةٌ, and hence appears to have been omitted in the copy of the KL used by Golius.]

[تَحَصْرَمَ app. signifies It (a grape) became in the state in which it is termed حِصْرِم. And hence,] تَزَبَّبَ قَبْلَ أَنْ يَتَحَصْرَمَ [app. meaning † He did the latter part of an affair before the first; as when a man writes a book before he has qualified himself by preparatory study]: a prov. (TA.)

تحصرم said of butter [in the process of formation] means It became dissundered, or separated [into clots], by reason of intense cold; and did not coalesce; as also تخضرم. (TA.)

حِصْرِمٌ The first of grapes, (Ṣ, Mgh, Mṣb, Ḳ,) such as are crude and sour, (Mṣb,) or as long as they remain green: (Ḳ:) or grapes when hard: (Az, TA:) or, accord. to AḤn, grapes when they have become organized and compacted: or, as he says on one occasion, [the n. un.] حِصْرِمَةٌ signifies a grape when it germinates. (TA.) The rubbing of the body in the bath with bruised, or pulverized, حصرم dried in the shade prevents the origination of [the cutaneous disorder termed] حَصَف in the year in which this is done, and strengthens the body, and cools it. (Ḳ.)

Dates, or fruit, (تَمْرٌ, or ثَمَرٌ, accord. to different copies of the Ḳ, the latter being the reading in the M, TA,) not yet ripe. (M, Ḳ, TA.)

Fruit plucked from the tree called the مَظّ, (Ḳ,) i. e. the wild pomegranate. (TA.)

In the “Jema et-Tefáreek,” it is said to signify Grape-stones: but this requires consideration. (Mgh.)

What is lean, dry, or withered, (syn. حَشَفٌ,) of anything. (AZ, Mṣb, Ḳ.)

And hence, (Mṣb,) † A niggardly man; (ISk, Ṣ, Mṣb, Ḳ;) arrow in disposition; as alsoمُحَصْرَمٌ↓ (Ṣ, TA) andمُتَحَصْرِمٌ↓: (Ḳ,* TA:) orمُحَصْرَمٌ↓ means having little, or no, good. (TA.)

Short; (Ḳ;) and فَاحِش [app. as meaning evil in disposition]; as alsoحُصْرُمٌ↓. (TA.)

And An iron [hooked] instrument with which the bucket is extracted from a well; (Ḳ;) also called عَوْدَقٌ. (TA.)

حَصْرَمَةٌ [inf. n. of Q. 1, q. v.]

Also Niggardliness, tenaciousness, or avarice. (Ḳ, TA.)

[حِصْرِمِىٌّ Omphacine. (Golius, on the authority of Meyd.)]

حِصْرِمِيَّةٌ Soup made [or flavoured] with unripe grape or dates, or with the juice thereof. (MA.)

مُحَصْرَمٌ Butter dissundered, or separated [into clots], by reason of intense cold; not coalescing; (Ḳ;) [as alsoمُتَحَصْرِمٌ↓: see Q. 2.]

A scanty, or small, gift. (TA.)

Anything straitened, or scanted. (TA.)

See also حِصْرِمٌ, in two places.

شَاعِرٌ مُحَصْرَمٌ i. q. مُخَضْرَمٌ, (Ḳ,) which is the more common term; meaning A poet that lived in the time of paganism and in that of El-Islám. (TA.)