حَوْلٌ
Root: حول
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حَوْلٌ
A year; so termed in consideration of its changing, and of the revolution of the sun in its places of rising and setting; or as being the period in which [certain] plants attain their complete strength: and even if it has not passed; because it will be [properly speaking] a حَوْل: an Verbal.Noun used as a simple subst.: pl. [of pauc., but also used as a pl. of mult.,] أَحْوَالٌ and [of mult.] حُؤُولٌ and حُوُولٌ, the former with ء and the latter with و.
def.2 Strength, power, might, or force; syn. قُوَّةٌ; as also حِيلَةٌ [originally حِوْلَةٌ] and حَوْلَةٌ , or this last is a n. un. from حَوْلٌ: it is in the soul and the body and the acquisitions: and hence the saying, in a trad., لَا حَوْلَ وَ لَا قُوَّةَ إِلَّا بِٱللّٰهِ العَلِىِّ العَظِيمِ [There is no strength nor power but in, or by means of, God, the High, the Great]: or it here signifies motion; [see also حَوْلَةٌ;] and the meaning is, there is no motion nor power,
2 See also حِيلَةٌ.
def.3 حَوْلُ شَىْءِ The lateral, or adjacent, part to which a thing may shift, or remove: or the environs [of a thing]. You say, قَعَدُوا حَوْلَهُ, or قَعَدْنَا حَوْلَهُ, the noun being in the accus. case as an adv. n. of place, i. e., [They sat, or we sat, around him, or it, or] in his, or its, environs; and , and حَوْلَيْهِ, dual of حَوْل, and , dual of حَوَال, and أَحْوَالَهُ, pl. of حَوْل, and used to give intensiveness to the meaning: but you should not say حَوَالِيهِ. And اَللّٰهُمَّ وَلَا عَلَيْنَا [O God, be Thou around us as our protector, and not against us,] occurs in a trad. respecting prayer. It is said, in the Expos. of the exs. cited as testimonies by Sb, that one sometimes says and حَوْلَيْكَ, meaning Around thee, in every direction; dividing the surrounding parts into two; like as one says, أَحَاطُوا بِهِ مِنْ جَانِبَيْهِ, not meaning that any of the surrounding parts remained vacant. [See also an ex. voce دَنْدَنَ.]
def.2 Strength, power, might, or force; syn. قُوَّةٌ; as also حِيلَةٌ [originally حِوْلَةٌ] and حَوْلَةٌ , or this last is a n. un. from حَوْلٌ: it is in the soul and the body and the acquisitions: and hence the saying, in a trad., لَا حَوْلَ وَ لَا قُوَّةَ إِلَّا بِٱللّٰهِ العَلِىِّ العَظِيمِ [There is no strength nor power but in, or by means of, God, the High, the Great]: or it here signifies motion; [see also حَوْلَةٌ;] and the meaning is, there is no motion nor power,
2 See also حِيلَةٌ.
def.3 حَوْلُ شَىْءِ The lateral, or adjacent, part to which a thing may shift, or remove: or the environs [of a thing]. You say, قَعَدُوا حَوْلَهُ, or قَعَدْنَا حَوْلَهُ, the noun being in the accus. case as an adv. n. of place, i. e., [They sat, or we sat, around him, or it, or] in his, or its, environs; and , and حَوْلَيْهِ, dual of حَوْل, and , dual of حَوَال, and أَحْوَالَهُ, pl. of حَوْل, and used to give intensiveness to the meaning: but you should not say حَوَالِيهِ. And اَللّٰهُمَّ وَلَا عَلَيْنَا [O God, be Thou around us as our protector, and not against us,] occurs in a trad. respecting prayer. It is said, in the Expos. of the exs. cited as testimonies by Sb, that one sometimes says and حَوْلَيْكَ, meaning Around thee, in every direction; dividing the surrounding parts into two; like as one says, أَحَاطُوا بِهِ مِنْ جَانِبَيْهِ, not meaning that any of the surrounding parts remained vacant. [See also an ex. voce دَنْدَنَ.]
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