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Arabic dictionary

Dictionary Habib Anthony Salmone, An Advanced Learner's Arabic-English Dictionary (1889)

Entry حجب

حَجَبَ(n. ac. حَجْب حِجَاْب) a. Covered, veiled, cloaked, masked, screened; enclosed shut off. b. [acc. & 'An], Prevented, precluded from. c. Intervened. حَجَّبَa. see I (a) تَحَجَّبَإِحْتَجَبَa. Was concealed &c., concealed himself. b. Was prevented, preluded. إِسْتَحْجَبَa. Appointed as chamberlain, as door-keeper. حَجِبa. Hill. حَاْجِب (pl. حَجَبَة حُجَّاْب 29) a. Chamberlain; usher, doorkeeper. b. (pl. حَوَاْجِبُ), Brow, eyebrow. حِجَاْب (pl. حُجُب) a. Veil, curtain; screen, partition.