حِزْبٌ

, in its primary acceptation, A party, or company of men, assembling themselves on account of an event that has befallen them (لِأَمْرِ حَزَبَهُمْ): (Ksh and Bd in v. 61:) [and then, in a general sense,] an assembly, a collective body, or company, of men: (IAar, A, Mgh, L, K:) a party, portion, division, or class, (S, A, L, Msb, K, TA,) of men: (L, Msb, TA:) the troops, or combined forces, of a man; (K, TA;) his party, partisans, or faction, prepared, or ready, for fighting and the like: (TA:) the companions, (S, K,) sect, or party in opinions or tenets, (K,) of a man: (S, K:) any party agreeing in hearts and actions, whether meeting together or not: (El-Moajam, TA:) plural أَحْزَابٌ. (S, A, Mgh, Msb, L, K.) And the plural, with the article, Those people who leagued together to wage war against Mohammad: (K:) or the parties that combined to war with the prophets. (S.) And in the Qur'an, 40:31, The people of Noah and 'Ád and Thamood, and those whom God destroyed after them, (K, TA,) as the people of Pharaoh. (TA.) And يَوْمُ الأَحْزَابِ [The day of the combined forces;] the day [or war] of the moat (الخَنْدَق). (Mgh, Msb, TA.)

I. q. وِرْدٌ, (S, Mgh, Msb, K, TA,) either in its proper sense, A turn, or time, of coming to water: or in the sense next following, which is tropical. (TA.)

(tropical:) A set portion of the Qur'an, (A, Mgh, L, TA,) and of prayer, (Mgh, L, TA,) &c., (Mgh,) of which a man imposes upon himself the recital (A, Mgh, TA) on a particular occasion, (Mgh,) or at a particular time; (TA;) a set portion of prayer, and of recitation [of the Qur'an], &c., which a person is accustomed to perform: (Msb:) plural as above. (Mgh.) You say, قَرَأَ حِزْبَهُ مِنَ القُرْانِ (tropical:) [He recited his set portion of the Qur'an]. (A.) And كَمْ حِزْبُكَ (tropical:) [How much is thy set portion of the Qur'an ?]. (A.)

[Also (assumed tropical:) A sixtieth portion of the Qur'an.]

(assumed tropical:) A portion, share, or lot, (Msb, TA,) of wealth, or property: or perhaps a mistranscription for جِزْبٌ; since IAar says that حِزْبٌ signifies “ a company of men; ” and جِزْبٌ “ a portion, share, or lot. ” (TA.)

A weapon, or weapons, of war; synonym سِلَاحٌ; (M, A, K, TA;) i. e. الَةٌ حَرْبٍ. (TA.)