conc▪ From ↗ḥaǧara ʻto surround, gird, enclose, hence also: to hinder, bar’. Accord. to some Ar lexicographers, ²ḥiǧr is a ʻmare kept for breeding, as though her womb were forbidden to all but generous horses’ (Lane ii: 517). If this interpretation is correct, one has to regard the value as specialisation from a more general *ʻforbidden, prohibited, unlawful, inviolable’, i.e., s.th. one is denied access to.
▪ For other derivations from ↗ḥaǧara, see , e.g., ↗¹ḥiǧr ʻlap’ or ↗ḥuǧraẗ ʻcompartment, chamber, room, †enclosure for camels’, as well as perh. even ↗ḥaǧar ʻstone’.
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