Classical Arabic - English Dictionary

حَقُرَ, aor. ـُ {يَحْقُرُ}, inf. n. حَقَارَةٌ (Ṣ, A, Mṣb, Ḳ) and حَقْرٌ; (TA;) and حَقَرَ, aor. ـِ {يَحْقِرُ}, inf. n. حَقْرٌ and حُقْرِيَّةٌ; (Ḳ, TA;) He, or it, was, or became, contemptible, despicable, mean, paltry, abject, ignominious, base, or vile, (Ṣ, A, Mṣb, Ḳ,) and held of no weight or worth. (Mṣb.) And حَقُرَ فِى عَيْنِى, (TA,) or حُقِرَ, (so in a copy of the A,) andتحاقر↓, (Ḳ,) He, or it, was, or became, contemptible, despicable, mean, paltry,, &c., in my eye. (Ḳ,* TA.) Andتَحَاقَرَتْ↓ إِلَيْهِ نَفْسُهُ He (lit. his spirit, or soul, or his own self,) became contemptible,, &c., in his own estimation. (Ṣ, TA.) You say also, حَقْرًا لَهُ وَعَقْرًا [May he be contemptible, or despicable, and beget no children]: (A, TA:) a form of imprecation. (TA.) And حَقْرٌ نَقْرٌ [in which the latter word is an imitative sequent, or a corroborative: see حَقِيرٌ]. (TA.) And حَقِرْتَ وَنَقِرْتَ Thou hast become very contemptible, despicable, mean, paltry,, &c.; syn. صِرْتَ حَقِيرًا نَقِيرًا. (Ḳ.)

حَقَرَهُ, (Ṣ, A, Mṣb, Ḳ,) aor. ـِ {يَحْقِرُ}, (Mṣb, Ḳ,) inf. n. حَقْرٌ; (Ḳ, TA;) andحقّرهُ↓, (A,) inf. n. تَحْقِيرٌ; (Ḳ;) andاحتقراهُ↓, (Ṣ, A, Mṣb, Ḳ,) andاستحقرهُ↓; (Ṣ, A, Ḳ;) He contemned, or despised, him, or it; held him, or it, to be contemptible, despicable, mean, paltry, abject, ignominious, base, or vile, (Ṣ, A, Mṣb, Ḳ, TA,) and of no weight or worth. (Mṣb.) [Hence,] مَنْ حُقِرَ حُرِمَ [He who is contemned, or despised, is prohibited, or debarred, from what is good]: a prov. (A.)

حقّرهُ, inf. n. تَحْقِيرٌ: see 1.

Also He, or it, made him to be contemned or despised, contemptible or despicable, mean, paltry, abject, ignominious, base, or vile. (TA.)

Also, (A, Ḳ,) inf. n. as above, (Ṣ, A, Ḳ,) said of a noun, (A,) and of speech, (Ḳ,) i. q. صَغَّرَهُ [He made it (namely, a noun,) diminutive in form: and he used the diminutive form in it; namely, speech].

حُقْرَةٌ, a simple subst., Contempt. (Mṣb.)

حَقِيرٌ Contemned or despised, contemptible or despicable, mean, paltry, abject, ignominious, base, or vile, (Ṣ, A, Mṣb,) and held of no weight or worth; (Mṣb;) as alsoحَيْقَرٌ↓ andحَيْقُرٌ↓: (Ḳ, TA:) or these two signify weak: or of mean, or ignoble, origin. (Ḳ.) You say also حَقِيرٌ نَقِيرٌ, (A,) using the latter word as an imitative sequent, (Ṣ and Ḳ in art. نقر,) or as a corroborative. (TA.)

حَقَارَةٌ (Ṣ, A, Mṣb, Ḳ) andحَقْرٌ↓ andحُقْرِيَّةٌ↓, (Ḳ,) all of which are inf. ns., (TA,) andحُقَارَةٌ↓ andحِقَارَةٌ↓ (Ḳ) andمَحْقَرَةٌ↓, (Ṣ, Ḳ,) Contemptibleness, despicableness, meanness, paltriness, abjectness, ignominiousness, baseness, or vileness: (Ṣ, A, Mṣb, Ḳ:) [or the last rather signifies a cause of contemptibleness, &c.; being similar to مَجْبَنَةٌ and مَبْخَلَةٌ, &c.:] you say,هٰذَا الأَمْرُ مَحْقَرَةٌ↓ بِكَ i. e. حَقَارَةٌ [or rather This thing is a cause of contemptibleness, &c. to thee]. (Ṣ.)

حَاقِرٌ act. part. n. of حَقَرَهُ, Contemning, despising,, &c. (A.) You say, هُوَ حَاقِرٌ نَاقِرٌ [using the last word as an imitative sequent, or a corroborative: see حَقِيرٌ]. (A.)

الحَاقُورَةٌ The Fourth Heaven. (Ḳ.)

مُحَقَّرَاتٌ Small sins; syn. صَغَائِرُ: (Ṣ, Ḳ:) but this is an application proper to the law; for the [pagan] Arabs knew not صَغَائِرِ nor كَبَائِر: or, accord. to the writers on strange words, it signifies actions which a man contemns, or despises, or holds in light estimation, even if great sins. (MF.)