حُسْبَانٌ

-A2- Also A punishment. (S, K.)

A calamity; an affliction with which a man is tried. (Aboo-Ziyád, K.)

Evil; mischief. (Aboo-Ziyád, K.)

Locusts. (Aboo-Ziyád, S, K.)

Dust: or smoke: synonym عَجَاجٌ. (K.)

Fire. (TA.) This, and each of the five significations next preceding, and that next following, have been assigned to the word as used in the Qur'an, 18:38. (TA.) See also حُسْبَانَةٌ.

Small arrows, (Mgh, Msb, K,) or short arrows, (S,) which are shot from Persian bows: (Mgh, Msb:) said by IDrd to be, in this sense, postclassical: (TA:) 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: (ISh, TA:) 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: (Az, Msb:) or iron-headed arrows, like large needles, slender, but somewhat long, and without edges [to the heads]: (Th, TA:) n. un. with ة. (S, Mgh, Msb, K.)

-A3- It is also said to signify The circumference of a mill-stone:

and hence, in the Qur'an, 55:4, [see 1, above,] to mean The [revolving] firmament. (El-Khafájee, MF.)