حَمِيلٌ
Root: حمل
Full Definition
2 Hence, The rubbish, or rotten leaves, and scum, that are borne of a torrent.
3 A thing [شَىْء, accord. to copies of the K and the TA, but accord. to the CK سَبْى, agreeably with the next of the explanations here following,] that is carried from one country or town to another among a party of captives.
4 A captive; because carried from one country or town to another.
5 One who is carried a child from his country, not born in [the territory of] El-Islám: or one who is carried from his country to the country of El-Islám: or a child with a woman who carries it, and says that it is her son: or any relation, or kinsman, in the territory of the enemy: or one that is carried from the territory of the unbelievers to that of ElIslám, and who is therefore not allowed to inherit without evidence: or a child in the belly of his mother when taken from the land of the unbelievers.
6 A foundling, or child cast out by his mother, whom persons carry off and rear: in some copies of the K, فَيَرِثُونَهُ is erroneously put for فَيُرَبُّونَهُ.
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