حَامِلٌ

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حَامِلٌ [Bearing, carrying, taking up and carrying, conveying, or carrying off or away;] act. part. n. of 1 having for its object what is borne on the back [&c.]: fem. with ة: pl. masc. حَمَلَةٌ: and pl. fem. حَامِلَاتٌ. Hence, حَمَلَةُ العَرْشِ [The bearers of the عرش, or empyrean, held by the vulgar to be the throne of God]. And the phrase فَٱلْحَامِلَاتِ وِقْرًا [in the Kur li. 2, lit. And the bearers of a load, or heavy load:] meaning the clouds.
2 Applied to a woman, Pregnant; as also حَامِلَةٌ: the former as being an epithet exclusively applied to a female: the latter as conformable to its verb, which is حَمَلَتْ; or as being used in a tropical [or doubly tropical] manner, meaning pregnant in past time or in future time; or as a possessive epithet [meaning having a burden in the womb]: [see an ex. of the latter in a verse cited in the first paragraph of art. مخص:] accord. to the Koofees, the former, not being applied to a male, has no need of the sign of the fem. gender: but the Basrees say that this [rule] does not uniformly obtain; for the Arabs say رَجُلٌ أَيِّمٌ and اِمْرَأَةٌ أَيِّمٌ, and رَجُلٌ عَانِسٌ and اِمْرَأَةٌ عَانِسٌ; and that, correctly speaking, حَامِلٌ and طَالِقٌ and حَائِضٌ and the like are epithets masc. in form applied to females, like as رَبْعَةٌ and رَاوِيَةٌ and خُجَأَةٌ are epithets fem. in form applied to males. It is also applied to a she-camel [and app. to any female] in the same sense.
3 Applied to trees (شَجَرٌ), Bearing fruit: fem. with ة.
4 See also حَمِيلٌ.
5 [Respecting this epithet, and the phrases حَامِلُ الأَمَانَةِ and مُحْتَمِلُ الأَمَانَةِ, see also أَمَانَةٌ, last sentence but one.]
6 حَمَلَةُ القُرَآنِ [Those who bear in their memory the Kur-án, knowing it by heart].

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