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مُحلٌّ

Root: حل

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مُحلٌّ [Making one to alight, or descend and stop &c.]. [Hence,] المُحِلَّتَانِ The cooking-pot and the hand-mill: and المُحِلَّاتُ the cooking-pot and the hand-mill and the bucket and the knife and the axe and the instrument for striking light (قَدَّاحَة, S, or زَنْد, K) and the water-skin and the bowl: for he who has with him these things alights, or abides, wheresoever he will; but he who has not must be near to persons from whom he may borrow some one or more thereof. [Hence, also,] تَلْعَةٌ مُحِلَّةٌ A تلعة [q. v.] comprising one بَيْت [or tent], or two.
2 [Making a debt to fall due.] The Arabs used to say, when they saw the new moon, لَا مَرْحَبًا بِمُحِلِّ الدَّيْنِ وَ مُقَرِّبِ الآجَالِ [No welcome be to that which makes the debt to fall due, and makes near the appointed periods!].
3 See also حَلَالٌ.
4 Also One with whom it is lawful to fight: (S in art. حرم:) or whom it is lawful to slay: contr. of مُحْرِمٌ, in the former sense, or in the latter sense.
5 One who has no claim, or covenanted right, to protection, or safeguard, or respect; contr. of مُحْرِمٌ, in this sense also.
6 A man who violates that which is sacred: or who does not hold that there is any sacredness pertaining to the sacred month.
7 See also 4, last sentence but one.
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