Lane's Arabic-English Lexicon

حُزَانَةٌ

Root: حزن

Full Definition

حُزَانَةٌ A man's family, or household, for whose case he suffers grief and anxiety. [And simply One's family, or household.] One says, فُلَانٌ لَا يُبَالِى إِذَا شَبِعَتْ خِزَانَتُهُ أَنْ تَجُوعَ حُزَانَتُهُ [Such a one cares not, when his store-room is full, that his family, or household, suffer hunger].

def.2 A prior right which the Arabs enjoy over the foreigners, on their first arrival [in the territory of the latter],with respect to the houses and lands: or a condition which the Arabs used to impose upon the foreigners in Khurásán, when they took a town, or district, pacifically, that when the soldiery [of the former] passed by them, singly or in companies, they should lodge them, and entertain them, and supply them with provisions for their march to another district.


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