ḥāmil

bearer, carrier

حامِل

Word

Noun · pattern فاعِل

Root

ح م ل

Forms

Plural
حَوامِل

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وكان لملك تلك المدينة ابنة قد زوجها لابن أخ له، فعرض لها ما يعرض للحوامل من الأوجاع.

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Arabic–English, 1863–93 · 12 entries
  • حَمَلَهُ Form I He bore it, carried it, took it up and carried it, conveyed it, or carried it off or away
    , aor. , inf. n. حَمْلٌ (S, Mgh, Msb, K, &c., in some copies of the S حِمْلٌ) and حُمْلَانٌ, (Mgh, K,) He bore it, carried it, took it up and carried it, conveyed it, or carried it off or away, (MA,) عَلَى ظَهْرِهِ (S, MA,) upon his back, or عَلَى رَأْسِهِ upon his head; (MA;) and ↓ احتملهُ signifies the same: (Msb, K:) or the latter is used in relation to an object inconsiderable and small in comparison with that in relation to which the former is used; as in the saying of En-Nábighah, (TA,) " إِنَّا ٱقْتَسَمْنَا خُطَّتَيْنَا بَيْنَنَا فَجَارِ ↓ فَحَمَلْتَ بَرَّةَ وَٱحْتَمَلْتُ " [Verily we have divided our two qualities between us, and thou hast borne as thy share goodness, and I have borne as my share wickedness]. (TA * in the present art., and S and TA &c. in arts. بر and فجر.) Hence, in the Kur [xx. 100], فَإِنَّهُ يَحْمِلُ يَوْمَ القِيَامَةِ وِزْرًا [He shall bear, on the day of resurrection, a heavy burden]. (TA.) Hence also, in the Kur [vii. 189], حَمَلَتْ حَمْلًا خَفِيفًا [She bore a light burden]; (S, TA;) i. e., [as some say,] the seminal fluid. (TA.) Hence also, in the Kur [xxix. 60], وَكَأَيِّنْ مِنْ دَابَّةٍ لَا تَحْمِلُ رِزْقَهَا [And how many a beast is there that does not bear its sustenance !], meaning, (assumed tropical:) does not provide its sustenance, but is sustained by God. (TA.) يَحْمِلُ الحَطَبَ [lit. He carries firewood], (A in art. حطب,) or الحَطَبَ الرَّطْبَ [juicy, or fresh, firewood], (Er-Rághib, TA,) means (tropical:) he goes about with calumny, or slander. (A in art. حطب, and Er-Rághib * and TA. *) ― -b2- حَمَلَهُ عَلَى الدَّابَّة, (Msb, TA,) aor. , (TA,) inf. n. حَمْلٌ, (Msb, TA,) [He carried him, or mounted him, (namely, a man, Msb) upon the beast; as also ↓ احتملهُ.] And حَمَلَهُ [alone] He gave him a beast upon which to ride. (T, TA. [See Kur ix. 93.]) أَحْمَلَهُ is not used in this sense. (T, TA.) ― -b3- See also 4. ― -b4- حَمَلَتِ المَرْأَةُ, aor. , (K,) inf. n. حَمْلٌ, (TA,) (tropical:) The woman became pregnant, or conceived: (K, TA:) and حَمَلَتْ وَلَدَهَا She became pregnant with, or conceived, her child: (Msb:) one should not say, حَمَلَتْ بِهِ; or this is rare; (K;) or one should not say this, but it is frequently said; (IJ, TA;) [for] as حَمَلَتْ is syn. with عَلِقَتْ, (Msb, TA,) and the latter is trans. by means of بِ the former is thus made trans., (TA,) therefore one says, حَمَلَتْ بِهِ فِى لَيْلَةِ كَذَا وَفِى مَوْضِعِ كَذَا, meaning She became pregnant with him, or conceived him, in such a night, and in such a place. (Msb.) حَمَلَتْ is also said of a ewe or she-goat, and of a female beast of prey, [and app. of any female,] accord. to IAar; meaning (assumed tropical:) She was, or became, in the first stage of pregnancy. (TA.) ― -b5- حَمَلَتِ الشَّجَرَةُ, inf. n. حَمْلٌ, (assumed tropical:) The tree [bore, or] produced, or put forth, its fruit. (Msb.) ― -b6- حَمَلَ بِدَيْنٍ, and بِدِيَةٍ, inf. n. حَمَالَةٌ, (assumed tropical:) [He bore, or took upon himself, the responsibility, or he was, or became, responsible, for a debt, and a bloodwit:] (Msb:) [for] حَمَلَ بِهِ, aor. , inf. n. حَمَالَةٌ, signifies كَفَلَ. (S, * K.) And حَمَلَ الحَمَالَةَ and ↓ تحمّلها (assumed tropical:) [He was, or became, responsible for the bloodwit, or debt or the like]: both signify the same: (S, TA:) and بِهِ ↓ تحمّل (assumed tropical:) He took it upon himself, or became responsible, or answerable, for it: (Msb in art. كفل:) and مُعْظَمَهُ ↓ تحمّل (assumed tropical:) He took, or imposed, upon himself, or undertook, the main part of it: (Jel in xxiv. 11:) and الأَمْرَ ↓ احتمل (assumed tropical:) He took, or imposed, upon himself, or undertook, the thing, or affair; he bore, or took upon himself, the burden thereof. (L in art. قلد.) You say, حَمَلَ قَوْمٌ عَنْ قَوْمٍ دِيَةً, (K, TA,) or غَرَامَةً, (TA,) (assumed tropical:) [A party bore, or took upon itself, for a party, the responsibility for a bloodwit, or a debt or the like;] as also ↓ تحمّل. (S.) [And حَمَلَ عَنْ فُلَانٍ لِفُلَانٍ كَذَا (assumed tropical:) He bore, or took upon himself, for such a one, the responsibility, to such a one, for such a thing.] And حَمَالَةً بَيْنَ ↓ تحمّل قَوْمٍ (assumed tropical:) He bore, or took upon himself, the responsibility for the bloodwits between people, in order to make peace between them, when war had occurred between them, and men's blood had been shed. (TA, from a trad.) ― -b7- حَمَلَ ظُلْمًا (assumed tropical:) [He made himself chargeable with wrongdoing]. (Kur xx. 110.) ― -b8- [حَمَلَ الأَمَانَةَ: see أَمَانَةٌ: accord. to some, it means (assumed tropical:) He took upon himself, or accepted, the trust: accord. to others, he was unfaithful to it: and ↓ اِحْتَمَلَهَا means the same.] ― -b9- حَمَلْتُ إِدْلَالَهُ: see 8. ― -b10- حَمَلَ عَنْهُ: see 8. ― -b11- حَمَلَ فُلَانٌ الحِقْدَ عَلَى فُلَانٍ (assumed tropical:) Such a one [bore or] concealed in his mind rancour, malevolence, malice, or spite, against such a one. (TA.) And فُلَانٌ لَا يَحْمِلُ, i. e. يُظْهِرُ غَضَبَهُ [which may be meant as the explanation of لا يحمل, i. e. (assumed tropical:) Such a one shows (or will not conceal) his anger; and thus SM understood it; or as the explanation of يحمل alone, i. e. such a one will not show his anger]: (Az, TA:) [for] حَمَلَ الغَضَبَ, (K,) aor. , inf. n. حَمْلٌ, (TA,) means (tropical:) he showed, or manifested, anger. (K, TA.) And hence, it is said, is the saying, in a trad., إِذَا بَلَغَ المَآءُ قُلَّتَيْنِ لَمْ يَحْمِلْ خَبَثًا, i. e. (assumed tropical:) [When the water amounts to the quantity of two vessels of the kind called قُلَّة,] impurity does not appear in it: (O, K, * TA:) or the meaning is, (assumed tropical:) it does not admit the bearing of impurity: for one says, فُلَانٌ لَا يَحْمِلُ الضَّيْمَ, i. e. (assumed tropical:) such a one refuses to bear, or submit to, and repels from himself, injury. (Msb.) You say also, حَمَلَ مِنْ ذٰلِكَ أَنَفًا (assumed tropical:) He conceived, in consequence of that, disdain, or scorn, arising from indignation and anger. (TA in art. انف, from a trad.) ― -b12- حَمَلَ الحَدِيثَ (assumed tropical:) [He bore in his memory, knowing by heart, the tradition, or narrative, or story; and in like manner, القُرْآنَ the Kur-án]. (Msb in art. روى.) ― -b13- حَمَلَ فُلَانًا, and بِهِ ↓ تحمّل and عَلَيْهِ, (assumed tropical:) He relied upon such a one in intercession, and in a case of need. (TA.) ― -b14- حُمِلَ عَلَى النَّاقَةِ (assumed tropical:) The she-camel was covered by a stallion. (M in art. صمد.) ― -b15- حَمَلَ عَليْهِ [as syn. with حَمَّلَهُ]: see 2, in three places. ― -b16- حَمَلَ عَلَى دَابَّتِهِ فَوْقَ طَاقَتِهَا فِى السَّيْرِ (assumed tropical:) [He tasked his beast beyond its power in journeying, or marching, or in respect of pace]. (S in art. جهد.) And حَمَلَ عَلَى نَفْسِهِ فِى السَّيْرِ (assumed tropical:) He jaded, or fatigued, himself, or tasked himself beyond his power, in journeying, or marching. (S, TA.) [See also 6.] ― -b17- حَمَلَ عَلَيْهِ فِى الحَرْبِ, inf. n. حَمْلَةٌ [which is properly an inf. n. of un.], (T, S,) (assumed tropical:) He charged, or made an assault or attack, upon him in war, or battle. (TA.) ― -b18- حَمَلْتُ عَلَى بَنِى فُلَانٍ (assumed tropical:) I made mischief, or I excited disorder, disagreement, dissension, or strife, between, or among, the sons of such a one. (AZ, S.) ― -b19- حَمَلَهُ عَلَى الأَمْرِ, aor. , (assumed tropical:) He incited, excited, urged, instigated, induced, or made, him to do the thing, or affair. (ISd, K.) ― -b20- [حَمَلَ لَفْظًا عَلَى لَفْظٍ آخَرَ, aor. , inf. n. حَمْلٌ, a phrase often used in lexicology and grammar, (assumed tropical:) He made, or held, a word, or an expression, to accord in form, or in meaning, or syntactically, with another word, or expression. One says, يُحْمَلُ عَلَى الأَكْثَرِ (assumed tropical:) It (a word) is made to accord in form with those words with which it may be compared that constitute the greater number: thus one says of رَحْمَانُ, which is made to accord in form with words of the measure فَعْلَانُ, though it has not a fem. of the measure فَعْلَى, in preference to فَعْلَانٌ, because words of the measure فَعْلَانُ are more numerous than those of the measure فَعْلَانٌ. And يُحْمَلُ عَلَى نَقِيضِهِ (assumed tropical:) It (a word) is made to accord in form with its contrary in meaning: thus عِجَافٌ, an anomalous pl. of أَعْحَفُ, is made to accord. in form with سِمَانٌ, a regular pl. of سَمِينٌ. And يَحمَلُ عَلَى المَعْنَى (assumed tropical:) It (a word) is made to accord syntactically with its meaning: and يُحْمَلُ عَلَى اللَّفْظِ (assumed tropical:) It is made to accord syntactically with its grammatical character: the former is said when, in a sentence, we make a mase. word fem., and the contrary, because the meaning allows us to substitute a fem. syn. for the masc. word, and a masc. syn. for the fem. word: for ex., it is said in the Kur vi. 78, فَلَمَّا رَأَى الشَّمْسَ بَازِغَةً قَالَ هٰذَا رَبِّى “ And when he saw the sun rising, he said, This is my Lord: ” here (by saying بازغة) الشمس is first made to accord syntactically with its grammatical character (تُحْمَلُ عَلَى اللَّفْظِ); and then (by saying هٰذَا instead of هٰذِهِ) it is made to accord syntactically with its meaning (تُحْمَلُ عَلَى المَعْنَى), which is الجِرْم or the like: this is allowable; but the reverse in respect of order is of weak authority; because the meaning is of more importance than the grammatical character of the word. (Collected from the Kull pp. 156 and 157, and other works.)] ― -b21- حَمَلَهُ أَحْسَنَ مَحْيَلٍ (assumed tropical:) [He put the best construction upon it; namely, a saying: محمل being here an inf. n.]. (TA in art. ابو) ― -b22- [حَمَلَهُ عَلَى النَّاسِخِ (assumed tropical:) He attributed it to, or charged it upon, the copyist; namely, a mistake. حُمِلَ علَى النَّاسِخِ, said of a mistake, occurs in the K in art. ربخ ― -b23- عَلَى آخَرَ حَمَلَ شَيْيأًا, in logic, means (assumed tropical:) He predicated a thing of another thing.] ― -b24- See also حُمْلَانٌ.
  • حمّلهُ الشَّىْءَ Form II He made him, or constrained him, to bear or carry
    , (Msb,) and الرِّسَالَةَ, (S, TA,) inf. n. تَحْمِيلٌ, (TA,) He made him, or constrained him, to bear or carry [the thing, and the message; and in like manner, عَلَيْهِ الشَّىْءَ ↓ حَمَلَ]. (S, Msb, * TA.) [And حمّلهُ, alone, He loaded him; namely, a camel, &c.] You say also, حَمَّلَهُ الأَمْرَ ↓ فَتَحَمَّلَهُ, inf. n. of the former تَحْمِيلٌ and حِمَّالٌ, like كِذَّابٌ, [which is of the dial. of El-Yemen], and of the latter verb تَحَمُّلٌ and تِحِمَّالٌ [like تِكِلَّامٌ &c.], (K,) (assumed tropical:) He imposed upon him the affair, as a task, or in spite of difficulty or trouble or inconvenience, and he undertook it, as a task, &c. (Msb in art. كلف.) And حَمَّلْتُهُ أَمْرِى فَمَا ↓ تَحَمَّلَ (assumed tropical:) [I imposed upon him my affair, as a task, &c., but he did not undertake it]. (TA.) It is said in the Kur [xxiv. 53], فَإِنَّمَا عَلَيْهِ مَا حُمِّلَ وَعَلَيْكُمْ مَا حُمِّلْتُمْ (assumed tropical:) [Upon him rests only that which he has had imposed upon him; and upon you, that which ye have had imposed upon you]: i. e., upon the Prophet rests the declaring of that which has been revealed to him; and upon you, the following him as a guide. (TA.) And رَبَّنَا عَلَى ٱلَّذِينَ مِنْ ↓ عَلَيْنَا إِصْرًا كَمَا حَمَلْتَهُ ↓ تَحْمِلٌ قَبْلِنَا رَبَّنَا وَلَا تُحَمِّلْنَا مَا لَا طَاقَةَ لَنَا بِهِ (assumed tropical:) [O our Lord, and do not Thou impose upon us a burden, like as Thou imposedst it upon those before us: O our Lord, and do not Thou impose upon us that which we have not power to bear]: (Kur ii. last verse:) or, accord. to one reading, تُحَيِّلْ, which has an intensive signification [when followed by على]. (Bd.) ― -b2- [حمّلهُ ذَنْبًا (assumed tropical:) He charged him with a crime, or an offence: see a verse of En-Nábighah cited voce عَرٌّ.]
  • حاملهُ Form III He bore with him
    [He bore with him a burden]. You say, of a Wezeer, حَامَلَ المَلِكَ أَعْبَآءَ المُلْكِ (assumed tropical:) [He bore with the King the burdens of the regal office]. (A in art. وزر.) [See also 4.] ― -b2- Also (assumed tropical:) He requited him; namely, a man: or, accord. to AA, مُحَامَلَةٌ signifies the requiting with beneficence. (TA.)
  • احملهُ Form IV He helped him to bear, or carry
    He helped him to bear, or carry, (T, S,) that which he was bearing, or carrying: (T, TA:) or you say, احملهُ الحِيْلَ he helped him to bear, or carry, the load, or burden: and ↓ حَمَلَهُ, i. e. فَعَلَ ذٰلِكَ بِهِ [he did that with him]. (M, O, K.) [See also 3.] -A2- أَحْمَلَتْ She (a woman, S, K, and a camel, S) yielded her milk without being pregnant. (S, K.)
  • تحمّل Form V He took upon himself the bearing, or carrying, of loads, or burdens
    He took upon himself the bearing, or carrying, of loads, or burdens: this is the primary signification. (Har p. 48.) ― -b2- [Hence, (assumed tropical:) He burdened himself with, or he became, or made himself, chargeable with, or he bore, or took upon himself, the burden of, a sin, or crime, or the like; as also ↓ احتمل:] you say احتمل إِثْمًا meaning تحملّهُ. (Jel in iv. 112 and xxxiii. 58.) And تحمّل غُرْمًا (assumed tropical:) He took, or imposed, upon himself a debt, or fine. (MA.) ― -b3- [And hence, likewise, several other significations:] see 2, in two places: ― -b4- and 8: ― -b5- and 1, in six places. ― -b6- Also He bound the load, or burden, [or the loads, or burdens, on the saddle, or saddles, or on the beast, or beasts;] (Har p. 48;) and ↓ احتيل signifies [the same, or] he put, or placed, the load, or burden, [or the loads, or burdens,] on the saddle, [or saddles, or on the beast, or beasts.] (Har p. 556.) ― -b7- [And hence,] تحمّلوا and ↓ احتملوا (assumed tropical:) They went away, departed, or journeyed. (S, TA.)
  • تحامل عَلَيْهِ Form VI He bore, bore his weight, pressed, or pressed heavily, upon it, or him
    [He bore, bore his weight, pressed, or pressed heavily, upon it, or him]. You say, تَحَامَلَ عَلَى رَأْسِ رُمْحِهِ مُعْتَمِدًا عَلَيْهِ لِيَمُوتَ [He bore, bore his weight, pressed, or pressed heavily, upon the head of his spear, leaning upon it, in order that he might die]. (Mgh in art. ركز.) And تَحَامَلْتُ عَلَيْهِ كَالعَاصِرِ [I pressed, or pressed heavily, upon it, like the squeezer of fruit &c.]. (Msb in art. همز.) ― -b2- [Hence,] (assumed tropical:) He wronged him; or treated him wrongfully, or unjustly. (S, Mgh, and Har p. 80.) And it is asserted that one says, تحامل الزَّمَانُ عَنْ فُلَانٍ meaning (assumed tropical:) Time, or fortune, turned from such a one, and took away his property: and تحامل إِلَيْهِ (assumed tropical:) It became favourable to him. (Har ibid.) ― -b3- [Also] (assumed tropical:) He imposed upon him, or tasked him with, that which he was not able to bear, or to do. (M, O, K.) And تحامل عَلَى نَفْسِهِ, (S, O,) or تحامل فِى الأَمْرِ and بِالأَمْرِ, (M, K,) (assumed tropical:) He imposed upon himself, or tasked himself with, or constrained himself to do, the thing, or affair, notwithstanding difficulty, or trouble, or inconvenience, (S, M, O, K,) and fatigue. (M, TA.) And تَحَامَلْتُ فِى المَشْىِ (assumed tropical:) I constrained myself to walk, notwithstanding difficulty, or trouble, or inconvenience, and fatigue: whence, رُبَّمَا يَتَحَامَلُ الصَّيْدُ وَيَطِيرُ, i. e. (assumed tropical:) Sometimes the game will constrain itself to fly, notwithstanding difficulty, &c., and will fly. (Mgh.) [See also two similar phrases in the first paragraph.] ― -b4- ↓ مُتَحَامَلٌ is used as its inf. n., and also as a noun of place: using it as an inf. n., you say, مَافِى فُلَانٍ مُتَحَامَلٌ i. e. تَحَامُلٌ (assumed tropical:) [There is not, in such a one, wrongdoing, &c.]: and using it of a place, هٰذَا مُتَحَامَلُنَا (assumed tropical:) [This is our place of wrong-doing, or wrongtreatment, &c.]. (S, TA.)
  • انحمل عَلَى الأَمْرِ Form VII He was, or became, incited, excited, urged, instigated, induced, or made, to do the thing, or affair
    (assumed tropical:) He was, or became, incited, excited, urged, instigated, induced, or made, to do the thing, or affair. (ISd, K.)
  • احتمل Form VIII He raised
    He raised a thing upon his back. (Har p. 41.) ― -b2- See also 1, in five places: and see 5, in three places. ― -b3- (assumed tropical:) He bore, endured, or sustained. (KL.) You say, اِحْتَمَلْتُ مَا كَانَ مِنْهُ (assumed tropical:) [I bore, or endured, what proceeded from him, or what he did or said, or] I forgave what proceeded from him, and feigned myself neglectful of it. (Msb.) And إِدْلَالَهُ ↓ حَمَلْتُ and اِحْتَمَلْتُ (assumed tropical:) [I bore, or endured, his presumptuousness occasioned by his confiding in my love]. (S.) And احتملهُ (assumed tropical:) [He bore with, endured, suffered, or tolerated, him; or] he bore, or endured, his annoyance, or molestation, (احتمل أَذَاهُ,) and feigned himself neglectful of what proceeded from him, and did not reprove him. (Har p. 41.) And احتمل (assumed tropical:) He was forbearing, or clement; he acted with forbearance, or clemency; he treated with forbearance, or clemency, him who reviled him: (TA:) he forgave an offence; as also ↓ تحمّل: (Har p. 637:) and عَنْهُ ↓ حَمَلَ (tropical:) he treated him with forbearance, or clemency. (K, TA.) [And احتمل النِّعْمَة (assumed tropical:) He bore wealth; or he had, or exercised, the quality of doing so; generally meaning, in a becoming, or proper, manner; but also absolutely, as is shown by the phrase] سُوْءُ احْتِمَالِ النِّعْمَةِ (assumed tropical:) [The bearing of wealth ill, or in an evil manner]. (Er-Rághib voce بَطَرٌ.) And احتمل الصَّنِيعَةَ (assumed tropical:) He bore the benefit as a badge, and was thankful, or grateful, for it. (ISd, K.) ― -b4- [In lexicology, said of a word or phrase or sentence, (assumed tropical:) It bore, admitted, or was susceptible of, a meaning, a sense, or an interpretation: and, elliptically, (assumed tropical:) it bore, admitted, or was susceptible of, two, or more, different meanings, senses, or interpretations; it was equivocal.] In the conventional language of the lawyers, and the Muslim theologians [and men of science in general], (Msb,) it is used, (Kull,) or may be used, (Msb,) as importing supposition, and admissibleness, or allowableness; and thus used, it is intrans.: and also as importing necessary implication, and inclusion; and thus used, it is trans.: you say, يَحْتَمِلُ أَنْ يَكُونَ كَذَا (assumed tropical:) [It is supposable, or admissible, or allowable, that it may be thus; or simply it may be thus; as also يُحْتَمَلُ, which is often used in this sense]: and اِحْتَمَلَ الحَالُ وُجُوهًا كَثِيرَةً (assumed tropical:) [The case necessarily implied, or included, many (possible) modes, or manners of being; or admitted of being put, or explained, or understood, in many ways; or bore many kinds of interpretation]. (Msb, Kull.) ― -b5- احتملهُ الغَضَبُ (assumed tropical:) Anger disquieted, or flurried, him. (Mj, TA.) And اُحْتُمِلَ [alone] (assumed tropical:) He was disquieted, or flurried, by anger: (T, TA:) or, accord. to the Mj and M and O; but accord. to the K, followed by لَوْنُهُ; (TA;) (assumed tropical:) he was angry, and his colour changed. (K, TA.) ― -b6- [اِحْتَمَلَتْ She (a woman) used a drug, or the like, in the manner of a suppository in the ragina: so in the present day: and so in the K, on the words قُنَّبِيطٌ and نِفْطٌ &c.] ― -b7- احتمل He bought what is termed حَمِيل, i. e. a thing [in the CK للسَّبْىِ is put for لِلشَّىْءِ] carried from one country or town to another (K, TA) among a party of captives. (TA.)
  • اِسْتَحْمَلْتُهُ Form X I asked him to carry me, or to give me a beast on which to ride
    signifies سَأَلْتُهُ أَنْ يَحْمِلَنِى [i. e. I asked him to carry me, or to give me a beast on which to ride]. (S.) ― -b2- استحملهُ نَفْسَهُ (assumed tropical:) He imposed upon him his wants and affairs. (M, K.)
  • حَوْمَلَ He carried water
    He carried water. (Ibn- 'Abbád, K.)
  • حَمْلٌ Gestation
    [inf. n. of 1, q. v. ― -b2- (tropical:) Gestation: see an ex. voce إِنْىٌ. ― -b3- And hence,] (assumed tropical:) The young that is borne in the womb (M, K) of any animal; (M, TA;) and (assumed tropical:) the fruit of a tree, (IDrd, S, M, Msb, K,) as also ↓ حِمْلٌ: (IDrd, S, M, K:) or the former, (assumed tropical:) the thing that is in a belly, or on the head of a tree: (ISk, S, M, Mgh, K:) and ↓ the latter, a thing borne, or carried, (Msb, K,) on the back; [i. e. a load, or burden;] (Msb;) the thing that is on the back or on the head: (ISk, S, M, Mgh, K:) or the former, (assumed tropical:) a burden that is borne internally; as the young in the belly, and the water in the clouds, and the fruit in the tree as being likened to the حَمْل of the woman: and ↓ the latter, a burden that is borne externally; as the thing that is borne on the back: (Er-Rághib, TA:) or [when applied to fruit] the former signifies a fruit that is internal: and ↓ the latter, a fruit that is external: (M, K:) or the former, fruit of a tree when large, or much: and ↓ the latter, fruit when not large, or when not much and large: (K accord. to different copies:) this is the saying of AO, mentioned in the T, in art. شمل, where, in the copies of the T, is found ما لم يكثر, not مالم يكبر: (TA:) and the former also occurs as meaning a burden that requires, for the carrying it, a beast or the hire of a porter: (Mgh:) the pl. [of pauc.] of the latter (Mgh, Msb, K) and of the former (K) is أَحْمَالٌ (S, Mgh, Msb, K) and [the pl. of mult.] (of the former, K, * TA) حِمَالٌ (K) and (of the latter, Msb) حُمُولٌ (Msb, K) and حُمُولَةٌ. (S, M, Mgh, Sgh.) Hence, (in a trad., TA) هٰذَا الحِمَالُ لَاحِمَالُ خَيْبَرَ (assumed tropical:) [This is the fruit: not the fruit of Kheyber]: meaning that it is the fruit of Paradise; and that it does not fail, or come to an end. (M, K.) ― -b4- See also what next follows.
  • حِمْلٌ Vehicles of the kind called
    : see حَمْلٌ, in five places. ― -b2- حُمُولٌ, (S, M, K,) as pl. of حِمْلٌ, (M, K,) and of ↓ حَمْلٌ also, (K,) signifies likewise [Vehicles of the kind called] هَوَادِج [pl. of هَوْدَجٌ], (M, K,) whether having in them women or not: (M, TA:) or (assumed tropical:) camels upon which are هوادج, (AZ, S, M, O, K,) whether there be in them women or not: (AZ, S, O:) it is not applied to camels unless they have upon them هوادج. (M, TA.) ― -b3- See also مَحْمِلٌ, and حَمُولَةٌ.

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