مِثْقَالٌ

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مِثْقَالٌ The weight (مِيزَان, JK, S, K, or وَزْن, Msb, TA, and Jel in iv. 44 and x. 62 and xxi. 48, or زِنَة, TA) of a thing, of the like thereof (مِنْ مِثْلِهِ [but why this is added I do not see]); [i. e.] its equal in weight; its quantity (مِقْدَار). مَا يَعْزُبُ عَنْ رَبِّكَ مِنْ مِثْقَالِ ذَرَّةٍ, in the Kur x. 62, means There is not hidden from thy Lord aught of the weight of the smallest ant: or a thing equal in weight to a small ant; or to the motes that are seen in a ray of the sun that enters through an aperture.
2 A thing with which one weights; as also ثِقْلٌ ; i. e., any of the weights of the balance.
3 A certain weight, of which the quantity is well known; a dirhem and three sevenths of a dirhem; (Msb, and K in art. مك;) i. e., the seventh part of ten dirhems: or [a dirhem and a half; so in the present day; i. e.,] seventy-two sha'eerehs: or twenty keeráts.
4 [A certain coin;] i. q. دِينَارٌ, q. v.; (Msb in art. دنر;) a مِثْقَال of gold: pl. مَثَاقِيلُ.
5 أَلْقَى عَلَيْهِ مَثَاقِيلَهُ He threw upon him his weight, or burden; syn. مَؤُونَتَهُ [perhaps meaning the burden of supporting him]. [See also ثِقْلٌ.]

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