حُسْبَانٌ
Root: حسب
Full Definition
def.2 Also A punishment.
2 A calamity; an affliction with which
3 Evil; mischief.
4 Locusts.
5 Dust: or smoke: syn. عَجَاجٌ.
6 Fire. This, and each of the five significations next preceding, and that next following, have been assigned to the word as used in the Kur xviii. 38. See also حُسْبَانَةٌ.
7 Small arrows, or short arrows, which are shot from Persian bows: said by IDrd to be, in this sense, postclassical: or arrows which a man shoots in the hollow of a reed, or cane; drawing the bow, he discharges twenty of them at once, and they pass by nothing without wounding it, whether it be an armed man or another object; they come forth like rain, and scatter among the people: or small arrows, with slender heads, in the hollow of a reed, or cane, which, when discharged, come forth like a shower of rain, and scatter, and pass by nothing without wounding it: or iron-headed arrows, like large needles, slender, but somewhat long, and without edges [to the heads]: n. un. with ة.
def.3 It is also said to signify The circumference of a mill-stone:
2 and hence, in the Kur lv. 4, [see 1, above,] to mean The [revolving] firmament.
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