حَاصِبٌ

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حَاصِبٌ [A thrower, or pelter, of stones]. You say, هُوَ حَاصِبٌ لَيْسَ بِصَاحِبٍ [He is a pelter of stones : he is not a friend]. [Hence also,] حَاصِبٌ, or رِيحٌ حَاصِبٌ, A violent wind that raises the pebbles; as also حَصِبَةٌ : or a wind that bears along the dust and pebbles: and a wind casting down pebbles from the sky: or a wind that tears up the pebbles.
2 And hence, A punishment from God.
3 Dust containing pebbles. See also حَصِبٌ.
4 Clouds (سَحَابٌ) casting down snow and hail: or clouds (سحاب), because of their casting down snow and hail.
5 Pebbles [borne] in the wind. You say, كَانَ يَوْمُنَا ذَا حَاصِبٍ [Our day was one in which pebbles were blown about by the wind].
6 Small particles of snow and hail scattered about.
7 A large number of men on foot.

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