حرث1 حَرَثَ, aor. ـُ (S, Msb, K) and حَرِبَ, (K,) inf. n. حَرْثٌ, (S, A, Msb, K,) He gained, acquired, or earned, (S, A, K,) wealth; (S;) as also ↓ احترث: (Az, TA:) he collected wealth. (S, A, Msb, K.) b2:  He sought, sought after, or sought to gain, sustenance; and laboured diligently; لِعِيَالِهِ  for his family; as also ↓ احترث: (TA:) he worked, or laboured, for the goods of the present world, (Az, TA,) and (tropical:)  for those of the world to come. (Az, A, TA.) You say, اُحْرُثْ لِآخِرَتِكَ (tropical:)  Labour for thy good in the world to come. (A, TA.) And it is said in a trad., اُحْرُثْ لِدُنْيَاكَ كَأَنَّكَ تَعِيشُ أَبَدًا (S, TA) Labour for thy good in the present world as though thou wert to live for ever: and, in continuation, وَاعْمَلْ لِآخِرَتِكَ كَأَنَّكَ تَمُوتُ غَدًا (tropical:)  and work for thy good in the world to come as though thou wert to die to-morrow. (TA.) b3:  Also حَرَثَ, (T, S, Mgh, Msb, K,) aor. ـُ and حَرَبَ, (K,) inf. n. حَرْثٌ (T, Mgh, Msb, K) and حِرَاثَةٌ; (TA;) and ↓ احترث; (T, S;) He sowed; (T, S, K;) he cast seed upon the ground: (T, TA:) [accord. to Bd (xlii. 19), this is the primary signification: see حَرْثٌ, below:] and the former verb, he tilled, or cultivated, land, either by sowing or by planting: (TA:) or he ploughed up land for sowing: (Mgh, Msb:) or he ploughed land; because the doing so is a means of gain. (Ham p. 70.) And the former verb, He ploughed up the ground by much walking upon it; as also ↓ احرث. (TA.) b4:  Also, the former verb, (L, K,) aor. ـُ and حَرِبَ, (K,) inf. n. حَرْثٌ, (A, L, K,) He took, or had, four wives together. (A, L, K.) b5: Immoderatè inivit: (A, K:) multùm inivit. (IAar, L.) And حَرَثَ امْرَأَتَهُ Multùm inivit mulierem suam. (IAar, L.) b6:  (tropical:)  He emaciated, or rendered lean, (IAar, S, A, K,) a beast, (K,) or a camel, (IAar, TA,) or a she-camel, (IAar, S, A,) and a horse, (IAar, TA,) by journeying (IAar, S, A, K) thereon; (IAar, S, K;) as also ↓ احرث, (so in the A and L and TA, and in some copies of the S, in this art., and so in the S and L and K in art. لهد,) or ↓ احترث. (So in some copies of the S in the present art.) b7:  (tropical:)  He stirred a fire, (S, A, K,) and made it to burn up, (TA,) with the مِحْرَاث. (A, TA.) b8:  (tropical:)  He examined, looked into, scrutinized, or investigated: (K, TA:) app. in an absolute sense: but accord. to some of the leading lexicologists, he examined, looked into, scrutinized, or investigated, and studied, the book, or the Kur-án: (TA:) he studied the Kur-án: (S:) or he studied the Kur-án long, and meditated upon it. (A, TA.) b9:  (assumed tropical:)  He called to mind a thing, or an affair, and became excited thereby: [for ex.,] Ru-beh says, وَالقَوْلُ مَنْسِىٌّ إِذَا لَمْ يُحْرَثِ [And the saying is forgotten if it be not called to mind so as to produce excitement]. (TA.) b10: (assumed tropical:)  He applied himself to the study of الفِقْه [i. e. the law]; or he learned the science so called. (K.) 4 أَحْرَبَ see 1, in two places.8 إِحْتَرَبَ see 1, in four places.حَرْثٌ Gain, acquisition, or earning; (Jel in xlii. 19;) as also ↓ حَرِيثَةٌ; of which the pl. is حَرَائِثُ: (K:) and recompense, or reward. (Bd and Jel in xlii. 19, and TA. [Accord. to Bd, in the place here referred to, this is from the same word as meaning “ seed-produce: but the reverse seems to be the case accord. to the generality of the lexicologists.]) مَنْ كَانَ يُرِيدُ حَرْثَ الآخِرَةِ, in the Kur xlii. 19, means (assumed tropical:)  Whoso desireth the reward, or recompense, (Bd,) or the gain, i. e. reward, or recompense, (Jel,) [of the world to come.] b2:  A lot, share, or portion. (TA.) b3:  Worldly goods. (TA.) b4:  (assumed tropical:)  Seed-produce: (S, * K, * TA:) (tropical:)  what is grown, or raised, by means of seed, and by means of date-stones, and by means of planting: (Mgh:) an inf. n. used as a proper subst.: (Mgh, Msb:) pl. حُرُوثٌ. (Msb.) b5:  (assumed tropical:)  A place ploughed for sowing; (Mgh, Msb;) as also ↓ مَحْرَثٌ, (Msb,) pl. مَحَارِثُ: (Mgh, Msb:) or land prepared for sowing: (Jel in ii. 66:) and it is said to signify also a plain, or soft, place; perhaps because one ploughs in it. (Ham p. 70.) [Being originally an inf. n., it is also used in a pl. sense.] It is said in the Kur ii. 223, نِسَآؤُكُمْ حَرْثٌ لَكُمْ (Mgh, Msb) (tropical:)  Your wives, or women, are unto you things wherein ye sow your offspring: (Bd, Jel:) they are thus likened to places that are ploughed for sowing. (Mgh, Msb.) b6:  [And hence,] (tropical:)  A wife; as in the saying, كَيْفَ حَرْثُكَ (tropical:)  [How is thy wife?]. (A, TA.) b7:  A road, or beaten track, or the middle of a road, that is much trodden [as though ploughed] by the hoofs of horses or the like. (K, * TA.) b8:  [A ploughshare: so in Richardson's Pers\. Ar. and Engl. Dict., ed. by Johnson; and so, app., in the Munjid of Kr, voce عُقَابٌ.]حَرِيثَةٌ: see حَرْثٌ.A2:  The pl., حَرَائِثُ, also signifies (assumed tropical:)  Camels emaciated by travel: (El-Khattá- bee, K:) originally applied to horses: of camels you [generally] say, أَحْرَفْنَاهَا [“ we rendered them lean ”], with ف; and نَاقَةٌ حَرْفٌ means “ a lean she-camel. ” (El-Khattábee, TA.) حَرَّاثٌ A sower, plougher, tiller, or cultivator, of land; (S, TA;) as also ↓ حَارِثٌ [pl. حُرَّاثٌ]: (KL:) a plougher of land for sowing. (Msb.) b2:  One who eats much; a great eater. (IAar, TA.) حَارِثٌ A collector of property. (Msb.) b2: الحَارِثُ, (K, [also written الحٰرِثُ, in the CK, erroneously, الحَرَثُ,]) as a generic proper name, (MF,) and أَبُو الحَارِثِ, (S, K,) the latter the better known, (TA,) The lion: (S, K:) because he is the prince of beasts of prey, and the strongest to acquire. (Har p. 662.) b3:  See also حَرَّاثٌ.مَحْرَثٌ: see حَرْثٌ.أَرْضُ مُحْرَثَةٌ: see مَحْرُوثَةٌ.مِحْرَثٌ: see what next follows.مِحْرَاثٌ The thing (i. e. the piece of wood, or the wooden thing, TA) with which the fire is stirred (S, A, K) in the [kind of oven called]تَنُّور; (S;) as also ↓ مِحْرَثٌ: (K:) and مِحْرَاثُ النَّارِ the shovel (مِسْحَاة) with which the fire is stirred. (TA.) [Hence,] مِحْرَاثُ الحَرْبِ (assumed tropical:)  That which [or he who] stirs up, or excites, war. (TA.) b2:  [In the present day, it signifies A plough: and (like حَرْثٌ) a ploughshare.]أَرْضٌ مَحْرُوثَةٌ and ↓ مُحْرَثَةٌ Ground ploughed up by people's treading much upon it. (T, TA.)