حِزْبٌ
Root: حزب
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حِزْبٌ
, in its primary acceptation, A party, or company of men, assembling themselves on account of an event that has befallen them (لِأَمْرِ حَزَبَهُمْ): [and then, in a general sense,] an assembly, a collective body, or company, of men: a party, portion, division, or class, of men: the troops, or combined forces, of a man; his party, partisans, or faction, prepared, or ready, for fighting and the like: the companions, sect, or party in opinions or tenets, of a man: any party agreeing in hearts and actions, whether meeting together or not: pl. أَحْزَابٌ. And the pl., with the article, Those people who leagued together to wage war against Mohammad: or the parties that combined to war with the prophets. And in the Kur xl. 31, The people of Noah and 'Ád and Thamood, and those whom God destroyed after them, as the people of Pharaoh. And يَوْمُ الأَحْزَابِ [The day of the combined forces;] the day [or war] of the moat (الخَنْدَق).
2 I. q. وِرْدٌ, either in its proper sense, A turn, or time, of coming to water: or in the sense next following, which is tropical.
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def.2 A weapon, or weapons, of war; syn. سِلَاحٌ; i. e. آلَةٌ حَرْبٍ.
def.3 See also what next follows.
2 I. q. وِرْدٌ, either in its proper sense, A turn, or time, of coming to water: or in the sense next following, which is tropical.
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def.2 A weapon, or weapons, of war; syn. سِلَاحٌ; i. e. آلَةٌ حَرْبٍ.
def.3 See also what next follows.
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