مِثْقَالٌ

The weight (مِيزَان, JK, S, K, or وَزْن, Msb, TA, and Jel in iv. 44 and x. 62 and xxi. 48, or زِنَة, TA) of a thing, (JK, S, Msb, K,) of the like thereof (مِنْ مِثْلِهِ [but why this is added I do not see]); (S, Msb, K;) [i. e.] its equal in weight; (PS, and Bd in x. 62;) its quantity (مِقْدَار). (Bd in xxi. 48.) مَا يَعْزُبُ عَنْ رَبِّكَ مِنْ مِثْقَالِ ذَرَّةٍ, in the Qur'an, 10:62, means There is not hidden from thy Lord aught of the weight of the smallest ant: (Jel:) or a thing equal in weight to a small ant; or to the motes that are seen in a ray of the sun that enters through an aperture. (Bd.)

A thing with which one weights; as also ↓ ثِقْلٌ; i. e., any of the weights of the balance. (Er-Rághib, TA.)

A certain weight, of which the quantity is well known; (JK;) a dirhem and three sevenths of a dirhem; (Msb, and K in article مك;) i. e., the seventh part of ten dirhems: (Msb:) or [a dirhem and a half; so in the present day; i. e.,] seventy-two sha'eerehs: (El-Karmánee, TA:) or twenty keeráts. (Hidáyeh, TA.)

[A certain coin;] i. q. دِينَارٌ, q. v.; (Msb in article دنر;) a مِثْقَال of gold: plural مَثَاقِيلُ. (S, K.)

أَلْقَى عَلَيْهِ مَثَاقِيلَهُ He threw upon him his weight, or burden; synonym مَوءُونَتَهُ [perhaps meaning the burden of supporting him]. (Aboo-Nasr, S, K.) [See also ثِقْلٌ.]