ح • ق • ر

, aor. حَقُرَ , inf. n. حَقَارَةٌ (S, A, Msb, K) and حَقْرٌ; (TA;) and حَقَرَ, aor. حَقِرَ , inf. n. حَقْرٌ and حُقْرِيَّةٌ; (K, TA;) He, or it, was, or became, contemptible, despicable, mean, paltry, abject, ignominious, base, or vile, (S, A, Msb, K,) and held of no weight or worth. (Msb.) And حَقُرَ فِى عَيْنِى, (TA,) or حُقِرَ, (so in a copy of the A,) and ↓ تحاقر, (K,) He, or it, was, or became, contemptible, despicable, mean, paltry, &c., in my eye. (K, * TA.) And إِلَيْهِ نَفْسُهُ ↓ تَحَاقَرَتْ He (lit. his spirit, or soul, or his own self,) became contemptible, &c., in his own estimation. (S, 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. (K.) -A2- حَقَرَهُ, (S, A, Msb, K,) aor. حَقِرَ , (Msb, K,) inf. n. حَقْرٌ; (K, TA;) and ↓ حقّرهُ, (A,) inf. n. تَحْقِيرٌ; (K;) and ↓ احتقراهُ, (S, A, Msb, K,) and ↓ استحقرهُ; (S, A, K;) He contemned, or despised, him, or it; held him, or it, to be contemptible, despicable, mean, paltry, abject, ignominious, base, or vile, (S, A, Msb, K, TA,) and of no weight or worth. (Msb.) [Hence,] مَنْ حُقِرَ حُرِمَ [He who is contemned, or despised, is prohibited, or debarred, from what is good]: a prov. (A.)

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

The Fourth Heaven. (K.)

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.)

(S, A, Msb, K) and ↓ حَقْرٌ and ↓ حُقْرِيَّةٌ, (K,) all of which are inf. ns., (TA,) and ↓ حُقَارَةٌ and ↓ حِقَارَةٌ (K) and ↓ مَحْقَرَةٌ, (S, K,) Contemptibleness, despicableness, meanness, paltriness, abjectness, ignominiousness, baseness, or vileness: (S, A, Msb, K:) [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]. (S.)

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

, a simple subst., Contempt. (Msb.)

Small sins; syn. صَغَايءِرُ: (S, K:) but this is an application proper to the law; for the [pagan] Arabs knew not صَغَايءِرِ nor كَبَايءِر: 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.)