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A company, or an assemblage of persons, travelling together: (El-Fárábee, Msb:) or a company returning from a journey: (S, K:) and commencing a journey; as auguring their return: (El-Fárábee, Msb, K:) he who restricts it to those returning from a journey errs: (ElFárábee, Msb, in which see more:) a caravan.