حج ḥajj A (Heb. ) s. m. 1. Act of moving round, or going to a place. 2. Pilgrimage to Mecca.

حجاب ḥijāb A (from حجب) s. m. 1. Modesty, bashfulness, shame, concealment. 2. A veil, a curtain. 3. Night. حجاب اٿهنا ḥijāb uṭhnā, v. n. 1. To be lost (the sense of shame). 2. To be removed (a skreen). حجاب چشمي ḥijāb- chashm-ī, Sheepʼs-eyed. حجاب کرنا ḥijāb karnā, 1. To cover, hide, conceal. 2. To shame. حجاب کهانا ḥijāb khānā, To blush.

حجاب ḥujjāb A s. plur. (of حاجب) Porters, door-keepers, &c. ¶ ḥajjāb, s. m. A cham- berlain, door-keeper.

حجابي ḥijāb-ī A. s. f. Concealment, secrecy.

حجاز ḥijāz A (from حجز To restrain, to intervene, to separate) s. m. 1. Mecca and the adjacent country, Arabia Petræa. (Arabia is by some divided into two parts only; viz. Yaman and Ḥijāz: others make of it five divisions; namely, Yaman, Tihāma, Najd, Aﻌrūẓ and Ḥijāz. Ḥijāz is the chain of mountains extending from Yaman to Syria; and has this name from intervening between Najd and Tihāma). 2. Name of one of the three principal Persian modes of musick (the other two being اسفـﮩ‍ان isfahān and عراق iﻌrāḳ).

حجام ḥajjām A (adj. superl. from حجامت) s. m. A cupper, scarifier, barber, shaver, phlebotomist.

حجامت ḥajāmat A (from حجم He cupped, &c.) s. f. Cupping, scarifying, shaving. A. H. حجامني ḥajjām-anī, s. f. (dakh.) Barberʼs wife.

حجب ḥajb A s. m. Interposing, secluding, ex- cluding, fencing round.

حجت ḥujjat A s. f. 1. An argument, proof, reason. 2. Altercation, disputation.

حجتي ḥujjatī A. (from حجت) adj. used substantively. 1. A sound reasoner. 2. A disputatious person, a sophist, wrangler, caviller.

حجر ḥajar A s. m. A stone. (Plur. احجار aḥjār). حجرتان ḥajratān, Gold and silver. حجرالاسود ḥa- jaru-l-aswad, s. m. The black stone in the tem- ple of Mecca. حجراليـﮩود ḥajaru-l-yahūd, s. m. A calcareous stone used in medicine, jewʼs-stone, resembling an olive or acorn, found in Palestine. (Helmintholithus judaicus: Lin. Helmintholi- thus echini b. a. Gmel.).

حجره ḥujra A (from حجر) s. m. A cell, a closet, a chamber.

حجله ḥajla A (vulg. ḥujla) s. m. 1. The female partridge. 2. The ornamented chamber where the bride sits, the curtain which hangs before her, the marriage-bed.

حجم ḥajm A s. f. Thickness, bigness.

ذي حجه zī ḥijja A s. m. The name of the last month of the Muhammadan year. (On the 10th day is the festival of بقرعيد baḳar-īﻌd).