حَوْلٌ
1.
A year; (S Msb, K, Er-Rághib, &c. ;) so termed in consideration of its changing, and of the revolution of the sun in its places of rising and setting; (Er-Rághib, TA;) or as being the period in which [certain] plants attain their complete strength: (El-Harállee, TA:) and even if it has not passed; because it will be [properly speaking] a حَوْل: a verbal noun used as a simple subst.: (Msb:) plural [of pauc., but also used as a plural of mult.,] أَحْوَالٌ (M, Msb, K) and [of mult.] حُوءُولٌ and حُوُولٌ, (M, K,) the former with ء and the latter with و. (TA.)
2.
Strength, power, might, or force; synonym قُوَّةٌ; (S, TA;) as also
حِيلَةٌ [originally حِوْلَةٌ] (TA) and
حَوْلَةٌ, (K, TA,) or this last is a n. un. from حَوْلٌ: (TA:) it is in the soul and the body and the acquisitions: and hence the saying, in a tradition, لَا حَوْلَ وَ لَا قُوَّةَ إِلَّا بِاللّٰهِ العَلِىِّ العَظِيمِ [There is no strength nor power but in, or by means of, God, the High, the Great]: (Er-Rághib, TA:) or it here signifies motion; [see also حَوْلَةٌ;] and the meaning is, there is no motion nor power,
or ability, but by the will of God: (AHeyth, TA:) or, as some say, the meaning is, there is no
حول [i. e. changing, or turning, or receding,] from disobedience, nor
قوّة [i. e. power] to obey, but by the accommodating, or disposing, of God. (Msb.)
3.
See also حِيلَةٌ.
4.
حَوْلُ شَىْءِ
The lateral, or adjacent, part to which a thing may shift, or remove: (Er-Rághib, TA:) or the environs [of a thing]. (Msb.) You say, قَعَدُوا
حَوْلَهُ, (S, K, *) or قَعَدْنَا حَوْلَهُ, the noun being in the accusative case as an adv. n. of place, i. e., [They sat, or we sat, around him, or it, or] in his, or its, environs; (Msb;) and
حَوَالَهُ, and حَوْلَيْهِ, (S, K,) dual of حَوْل, (TA,) and
حَوَالَيْهِ, (S, Msb, K,) dual of حَوَال, (TA,) and أَحْوَالَهُ, (ISd, K,) plural of حَوْل, and used to give intensiveness to the meaning: (ISd, TA:) but you should not say حَوَالِيهِ. (S, Sgh.) And وَلَا عَلَيْنَا
اَللّٰهُمَّ حَوَالَيْنَا [O God, be Thou around us as our protector, and not against us,] occurs in a tradition respecting prayer. (TA.) It is said, in the Expos. of the exs. cited as testimonies by Sb, that one sometimes says
حَوَالَيْكَ and حَوْلَيْكَ, meaning Around thee, in every direction; dividing the surrounding parts into two; like as one says, أَحَاطُوا بِهِ
مِنْ جَانِبَيْهِ, not meaning that any of the surrounding parts remained vacant. (TA.) [See also an example voce دَنْدَنَ.]