ثَقَلٌ
1.
A thing, or things, that a man has with him, of such things as burden him: (Ham p. 295:) [and particularly] the household-goods, or furniture and utensils, (El-Fárábee, JK, S, Mgh, Msb, K, Ham ubi suprà, and Bd in xcix. 2,) and (according to El-Fárábee, Msb) the household and kindred and party, or domestics, or servants, (JK, S, Mgh, Msb, K, and Ham,) of a man, (Ham,) or of a traveller: (JK, S, Mgh, Msb, K:) [or the travelling-apparatus and baggage and train, of a man:] plural أَثْقَالٌ; (JK, S, Mgh, Msb, K; *) with which
ثَقِلَةٌ is synonym, (JK, S, K,) as are also
ثَقَلَةٌ and
ثِقْلَةٌ and
ثَقْلَةٌ and
ثِقَلَةٌ; (K;) as meaning all the household-goods or furniture and utensils of persons going on a journey. (S, K.)
2.
See also ثِقْلٌ.
3.
(assumed tropical:) The requisites and apparatus, instruments, tools, or the like, of a man: (Ham ubi suprà:) as, for instance, (tropical:) the books and writing-reeds of the learned man: every craftsman has what is thus termed. (TA.) By the saying
the author thereof, Iyás Et-Tá-ee, means Each of our two armies, the possessors of the ثَقَلَانِ [or apparatus, or weapons, &c., of war, is longing for spoil]: or an army may be termed ثَقَلٌ because it is heavy in assault. (Ham ubi suprà.)كِلَا ثَقَلَيْنَا طَامِعٌ بِغَنِيمَةٍ
4.
Anything held in high estimation, in much request, and preserved with care. (K, TA.) Hence the tradition, إِنِّى تَارِكٌ فِيكُمُ الثَّقَلَيْنِ كِتَابَ اللّٰهِ وَعِتْرَتِى [Verily I am leaving among you the two objects of high estimation and of care, the Book of God, and my kindred, or near kindred]: (K:) or they are thus called because of the heaviness of acting in the manner required by them: (Th, TA:) or as being likened to the requisites and apparatus, instruments, tools, or the like, of a man. (Ham ubi suprà.)
5.
Also Eggs of the ostrich; because he who takes them rejoices in them, and they are food. (TA.)