هَرْجٌ

Trial, or civil war, or conflict and faction, or discord, or dissension. (فِتَنْةٌ,) and confusion. or disorder: (S:) vehement and much slaughter (TA:) in a tradition respecting the signs of the last day, conflict, and confusion, or disorder: (TA:) or slaughter; as explained by Mohammad himself: (S:) and so, accord to Aboo-Moosa. It signifies in the language of Abyssinia (TA.) Ibn-Keys Fr-Rukeiyát said in the days of the faction of Ibn-Ez-Zubayi.

لَيْت شِعْرِى أَأَوَّلُ الهَرْجِ هٰذَا

أَمٌ زَمَانٌ مِنْ فِتْنَةِ غَيْرِ هَرْجِ

Would that I knew whether this be the first of the slaughter predicted as a sign of the last day, or whether it be a time of trial, or civil war &c., other than the slaughter so predicted (S)