حَالِقَةٌ
1.
[an epithet (being feminine of حَالِقٌ q. v.) in which the quality of a subst. predominates] (tropical:) A year of drought, barrenness, or dearth: so in the saying, وَقَعَتْ فِيهِمْ حَالِقَةٌ لَا تَدَعُ شَيْيءًا إِلَّا أَهْلَكَتْهُ (tropical:) [A year of drought, &c., happened among them, not leaving anything without its destroying it]. (TA.)
2.
And الحَالِقَةُ (tropical:) The cutting, or abandoning, or forsaking, of kindred, or relations; synonym قَطِيعَةُ
الرَّحِمِ; (Khálid Ibn-Jenebeh, K, TA;) and mutual wronging, and evil-speaking: (Khálid Ibn-Jenebeh, TA:) or that which destroys, and utterly cuts off, religion; like as the razor utterly cuts off hair: occurring in a tradition, in which البَغْضَاءُ [i. e. vehement hatred] and الحَالِقَةُ are termed the disease of the nations (دَاءُ الأُمَمِ). (TA.)
3.
See also حَالِقٌ, last sentence but one.