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ث ق ل

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From Edward William Lane, An Arabic-English Lexicon (1863–1893), under the root ثقل. Digitised by the Perseus Project (Tufts); Arabic decoded from Perseus's transliteration.

ثَقُلَ ثقل , aor. ثَقُلَ , inf. n. ثِقَلٌ (S, Msb, K, &c.) and ثِقْلٌ , a contraction of the former, (Msb,) and ثَقَالَةٌ , (K, TA, in the CK ثِقالَة , but) like كَرَامَةٌ , (TA,) It (a thing, S, Msb) was, or became, heavy, weighty, or ponderous. (S, K.) [See ثِقَلٌ , below.] ― -b2- See also 4. ― -b3- [(assumed tropical:) It was, or became, heavy, weighty, or preponderant, ideally.] فَأَمَّا مَنْ ثَقُلَتْ مَوَازِينُهُ , in the Kur ci. 5, means (assumed tropical:) And as to him whose good deeds shall be preponderant. (Bd, Jel.) [See also Kur vii. 7 and xxiii. 104.] ― -b4- [(assumed tropical:) It was, or became, heavy, or weighty, as meaning onerous, burdensome, oppressive, afflictive, grievous, or troublesome.] You say, ثَقُلَ القَوْلُ (tropical:) The saying was [heavy, or weighty, &c.; or] unpleasant to be heard. (TA.) And it is said in the Kur vii. 186, ثَقُلَتْ فِى السَّمٰوَاتِ وَالأَرْضِ (assumed tropical:) It (the time of the resurrection) will be momentous, or formidable, [in the heavens and on the earth, or] to the inhabitants of the heavens and the earth, (Bd, Jel,) to the angels and men and genii; app. alluding to the wisdom shown in concealing it: (Bd:) or it means the knowledge thereof [is difficult]: (Ibn-'Arafeh, TA:) or it is occult, or hidden. (Kt, TA.) [ ثَقُلَ is also said of a word, and of a sound, meaning (assumed tropical:) It was heavy, or not easy, of utterance; or heavy to the ear: see 2. And of an affair, or action, meaning (assumed tropical:) It was afflictive, grievous, troublesome, or difficult. In these and similar senses, it is trans. by means of عَلَى : you say, ثَقُلَ عَلَيْهِ (assumed tropical:) It was, or became, heavy, weighty, onerous, &c., to him. In like manner also it is said of food, meaning (assumed tropical:) It was, or became, heavy to the stomach; difficult of digestion.] You say also, ثَقُلَ سَمْعُهُ (tropical:) [His hearing was, or became, heavy; or] his hearing partially went. (K, TA.) ― -b5- (tropical:) He (a man) was, or became, heavy in sickness, or disease: [and in like manner, in his sleep:] the verb is thus, with damm to the ق ; though said in the K to be ثَقِلَ , like فَرِحَ , as meaning his disease became violent; (Fet-h el-Báree, TA;) not improbably through error or inadvertence. (MF.) ― -b6- [(assumed tropical:) He was, or became, heavy, slow, sluggish, indolent, lazy, dull, torpid, or drowsy; wanting in alacrity, activity, agility, animation, spirit, or intelligence; stupid.] You say, يَثْقُلُ عَنْ قُبُولِ مَا يُلْقَى اـِلَيْهِ (assumed tropical:) [He is averse from receiving, or accepting, or admitting, or is slow to receive, &c., what is said to him]. (TA.) ― -b7- Also, said of the عَرْفَج , and of the ثُمَام , (tropical:) Its shoots became luxuriant, or succulent, or sappy. (K, TA.) -A2- ثَقَلَهُ , (JK, S, K,) بِيَدِهِ , (K,) aor. ثَقُلَ , (TA,) inf. n. ثَقْلٌ , (K,) He tried the weight of it, (JK, S, K,) namely, a thing, (K,) or a sheep or goat, (S,) by lifting it [with his hand] to see if it were heavy or light. (S, TA.) ― -b2- ثَقَلَ الشَّىْءُ الشَّىْءَ فِى الوَزْنِ , aor. and inf. n. as above, (S,) The thing surpassed the thing in weight; outweighed it. (PS.) ― -b3- See also 2.

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ثقّلهُ ثقل ثقله ثقلة , inf. n. تَثْقِيلٌ , He, or it, made it, or him, ثَقِيل [i. e. heavy, properly and tropically]: (K:) تثقيل is the contr. of تَخْفِيفٌ ; (S;) and signifies the making heavy in weight [&c.]; as also ثَقْلٌ [inf. n. of ↓ ثَقَلَهُ ]. (KL.) ― -b2- [Hence, (assumed tropical:) He made it (a word or a sound) heavy, or not easy, of utterance; or heavy to the ear: and particularly a word by uttering hemzeh with its true, or proper, sound, which is commonly termed تَحْقِيقُ الهَمْزَةِ , and opposed to تَخْفِيفُهَا ; and by making a single consonant double; and by making a quiescent consonant movent: often occurring in these senses in lexicons and grammars: opposed to خَفَّفَهُ .]

اثقلهُ أثقل أثقله اثقله اثقلة ثقل He, or it, (a load, S, or a thing, Msb,) [burdened him: or] burdened him heavily: (K:) or beyond his power; overburdened him. (JK, Msb, TA. *) ― -b2- (assumed tropical:) In the latter sense, said also of a debt: and of sickness, or a disease: (JK:) or, said of sickness, or a disease, and of sleep, and of meanness, or sordidness, (tropical:) it [burdened him,] overcame him, and rendered him heavy. (K, * TA, * TK.) -A2- اثقلت , said of a woman, She became gravid; her burden became heavy in her belly: (S:) or she had a burden, (Akh, S, and Bd in vii. 189,) by reason of the greatness of the child in her belly: (Bd, Jel:) or her pregnancy became apparent, or manifest; as also ↓ ثَقُلَتْ . (K.)

تَثَاْقَلَ [ تثاقل عَلَى شَىْءٍ He pressed heavily, or bore his weight, upon a thing: see مُتَثَاقِلٌ .] ― -b2- تثاقلوا (assumed tropical:) [They were heavy, sluggish, or spiritless:] they did not rise and hasten to the fight when commanded to do so. (IDrd, K.) And تثاقل اـِلَى الأَرْضِ , (S and K in art. ارض , &c.,) and اِثَّاقَلَ الى الرض , the former being the original form of the verb, (Bd and Jel in ix. 38,) (assumed tropical:) He was, or became, heavy, slow, or sluggish, (Bd, Jel,) averse from warring against the unbelievers, (Jel,) and inclining to the earth, or ground; (Bd, Jel;) or propending thereto. (Bd.) And اِثَّاقَلَ اـِلَى الدُّنْيَا (assumed tropical:) He propended to the present world. (TA.) And تثاقل عَنْهُ (assumed tropical:) He was heavy, or sluggish, and held back from it. (K.)

استثقلهُ أستثقله استثقله استثقلة ٱستثقل ٱستثقله contr. of اِسْتَخَفَّهُ ; (S and K and TA in art. خف ;) He deemed it, or him, ثَقِيل [i. e. heavy, properly and tropically]. (TA in that art.) ― -b2- [Hence, (assumed tropical:) He deemed it (a word or a sound) heavy, or not easy, of utterance; or heavy to the ear: often occurring in this sense in lexicons and grammars.] ― -b3- اُسْتُثْقِلَ نَوْمًا (assumed tropical:) [He was overcome, and rendered heavy, by sleep: and in like manner, مَرَضًا , by sickness or disease: and لُوءْمًا , by meanness or sordidness: see its pass. part. n., below]. (JK.)

ثِقْلٌ ثقل Weight: or a weight: syn. وَزْنٌ : (S, Msb, KL:) pl. أَثْقَالٌ . (S.) So in the phrase أَعْطِهِ ثِقْلَهُ [Give thou him his, or its, weight]. (S, Msb.) See also مِثْقَالٌ . You say also, أَلْقَى عَلَيْهِ ثِقْلَهُ or ↓ ثِقَلَهُ [He threw upon him his weight: see مِثْقَالٌ , last sentence: and see جِرْمٌ ]. (S in art. اوق &c., accord. to different copies.) ― -b2- And A load, or burden: (KL:) or a heavy load or burden: pl. as above. (K.) وَتَحْمِلُ أَثْقَالَكُمْ , in the Kur xvi. 7, means And they carry your loads, or burdens; (Bd;) or your heavy loads or burdens. (TA.) ― -b3- أَثْقَالٌ (as pl. of ثِقْلٌ , K, or of ↓ ثَقَلٌ , Bd) also signifies (tropical:) The treasures, or buried treasures, of the earth: and its dead, or corpses. (K, TA, and Bd and Jel in xcix. 2.) ― -b4- Also (as pl. of ثِقْلٌ , K) (tropical:) Sins. (JK, K.) So in the saying in the Kur [xxix. 12], وَلَيَحْمِلُنَّ أَثْقَالَهُمْ وَأَثْقَالًا مَعَ أَثْقَالِهِمْ (tropical:) [And they shall assuredly bear their sins, and sins (of others whom they have seduced) with their sins]. (TA.)

ثَقَلٌ ثقل 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 (accord. 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:] pl. أَثْقَالٌ ; (JK, S, Mgh, Msb, K; *) with which ↓ ثَقِلَةٌ is syn., (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.) ― -b2- See also ثِقْلٌ . ― -b3- (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 كِلَا ثَقَلَيْنَا طَامِعٌ بِغَنِيمَةٍ 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.) ― -b4- Anything held in high estimation, in much request, and preserved with care. (K, TA.) Hence the trad., اـِنِّى تَارِكٌ فِيكُمُ الثَّقَلَيْنِ كِتَابَ ا@للّٰهِ 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.) ― -b5- Also Eggs of the ostrich; because he who takes them rejoices in them, and they are food. (TA.) ― -b6- الثَّقَلَانِ Mankind and the jinn or genii; (S, Msb, K;) because, by the discrimination that they possess, they excel other animate beings. (TA.) It may also mean The Arabs and the foreigners: or mankind and other animate beings. (Ham ubi suprà.)

ثِقَلٌ ثقل Heaviness; weight, or weightiness; ponderousness; gravity; contr. of خِفَّةٌ : (S, K, and Er-Rághib:) and preponderance: in its primary acceptation, relating to corporeal objects: then, to ideal objects. (Er-Rághib, TA. [See ثَقُلَ , throughout.]) See also ثِقْلٌ . ― -b2- فِى أُذُنِهِ ثِقَلٌ (tropical:) [In his ear is a heaviness, or dulness,] is said of him whose hearing is not good; as though he were averse from receiving, or accepting, or admitting, or slow to receive, &c., what is said to him. (TA.)

ثَقْلَةٌ ثقل ثقله ثقلة : see ثَقَلٌ . ― -b2- Also (assumed tropical:) A fit of drowsiness, or of slumber, that overcomes one: (JK, M, K:) and (tropical:) a heaviness experienced in the chest, (K, TA,) or in the body, (TA,) from food: as also ↓ ثَقَلَةٌ : (K, TA:) or the former, or ↓ the latter, (accord. to different copies of the S,) (assumed tropical:) a heaviness and languor in the body: (S:) and ↓ the latter, (assumed tropical:) a heaviness that is experienced on the heart. (JK.)

ثِقْلَةٌ ثقل ثقله ثقلة : see ثَقَلٌ .

ثَقَلَةٌ ثقل ثقله ثقلة : see ثَقَلٌ : ― -b2- and see ثَقْلَةٌ , in three places.

ثَقِلَةٌ ثقل ثقله ثقلة : see ثَقَلٌ .

ثِقَلَةٌ ثقل ثقله ثقلة : see ثَقَلٌ .

ثَقَالٌ ثقال ثقيل : see ثَقِيلٌ , in two places. ― -b2- Also, applied to a woman, (JK, S, K,) Heavy; (S;) large in the hinder part, or posteriors: (JK, * S, * K, TA:) or heavy (K, TA) in an ideal sense. (TA.)

ثُقَالٌ ثقال ثقيل : see ثَقِيلٌ .

ثَقِيلٌ ثقيل part. n. of ثَقُلَ ; (S, Msb, K;) Heavy, weighty, or ponderous: (S, K, and Er-Rághib:) and so in relation to another thing; preponderant: primarily applied to a corporeal thing: (Er-Rághib, TA:) and ↓ ثَقَالٌ and ↓ ثُقَالٌ signify the same: (K:) pl. ثِقَالٌ and ثُقْلٌ and ثُقَلَا=ءُ [which last, however, seems to be applied only to rational beings, agreeably with analogy]. (K.) ― -b2- [Like its verb,] it is also applied to an ideal thing. (Er-Rághib, TA.) [Thus it signifies (assumed tropical:) Heavy, or weighty, in the sense of onerous, burdensome, oppressive, afflictive, grievous, or troublesome: momentous, or formidable: difficult: heavy, or not easy, of utterance; or heavy to the ear; applied to a word and a sound; and particularly to a word in which a single consonant is made double, and to one in which a quiescent consonant is made movent, like ↓ مُثَقَّلٌ : heavy to the stomach; difficult of digestion: heavy applied to the hearing: see the verb.] قَوْلًا ثَقِيلًا , in the Kur [lxxiii. 5], means (assumed tropical:) A heavy, or weighty, saying. (TA.) النُّونُ الثَّقِيلَةُ means (assumed tropical:) [The heavy-sounding ن ; as in يَفْعَلَنَّ &c.;] the contr. of الخَفِيفَةُ . (TA in art. خف .) ― -b3- It is also applied to a man, (JK,) meaning (tropical:) [Heavy in sickness, or disease; or] suffering a violent disease: (K:) [and (assumed tropical:) heavy, slow, sluggish, indolent, lazy, dull, torpid, or drowsy; wanting in alacrity, activity, agility, animation, spirit, or intelligence; stupid:] and so is ↓ مُسْتَثْقَلٌ : (JK:) which also means, particularly, (assumed tropical:) overcome, and rendered heavy, by sleep ( نَوْمًا ), (JK, * K, * TK,) and by sickness or disease ( مَرَضًا ), and by meanness or sordidness ( لُوءْمًا ). (K.) ثِقَالُ النَّاسِ [expressly said in the TA to be with kesr, but in the CK, erroneously, ثُقال ,] and ثُقَلَا=ءُ الناس mean (assumed tropical:) Those men whose company is disliked; (K;) whom others deem heavy: each is pl. of ثَقِيلٌ . (TA.) One says, أَنْتَ ثَقِيلٌ عَلَى جُلَسَايءِكَ (assumed tropical:) [Thou art heavy, or dull, or unwelcome, to thy companions with whom thou sittest]. (TA.) And (to him who is ثَقِيل , TA in art. نسم ,) مَا أَنْتَ اـِلَّا ثَقِيلُ الظِّلِّ بَارِدُ النَّسِيمِ (assumed tropical:) [Thou art no other than one who casts a gloom upon others, and chills them: lit., heavy of shade, or shadow; cold of breeze]. (TA.) ثَقِيلٌ , applied to a man, is mostly used in dispraise: but sometimes, in praise: (Er-Rághib, TA:) used in praise, it signifies (assumed tropical:) Grave, staid, steady, sedate, or calm. (Kull.) Applied to a horse, (assumed tropical:) Slow; (Kull;) and so ↓ ثَقَالٌ applied to a camel; (K;) a meaning also assigned to ثَفَالٌ , with ف ; (TA;) and ↓ مُثْقَلٌ , applied to a horse or the like. (JK.) اِنْفِرُوا خِفَافًا وَثِقَالًا , in the Kur [ix. 41], means (assumed tropical:) [Go ye forth to fight] prompt and not prompt: (Katádeh, Bd, Jel, TA:) or whether moving be easy to you or difficult: (Bd, * TA:) or riding and walking: or lightly armed and heavily armed: or healthy and sick: (Bd:) or strong and weak: (Jel:) or rich and poor: (Jel, TA:) or young and old. (TA.)

ثَاقِلٌ ثاقل A deenár of full weight; (Z;) not deficient: (S, K:) pl. ثَوَاقِلُ . (S, Z, K.) ― -b2- أَصْبَحَ ثَاقِلًا (assumed tropical:) He became, or became in the morning, heavy by reason of sickness, or disease. (Aboo-Nasr, K, TA.)

أَثْقَلُ More [and most] heavy. (TA.)

مُثْقَلٌ مثقل Heavily burdened: (TA:) or burdened beyond his power; overburdened. (JK, TA.) ― -b2- (assumed tropical:) Weighed down, or oppressed, by sickness, or disease, (JK,) and by debt. (JK, Er-Rághib.) ― -b3- See also ثَقِيلٌ .

مُثْقِلٌ مثقل , applied to a woman, Gravid; whose burden has become heavy in her belly: (S:) or whose pregnancy has become apparent, or manifest. (K.)

مُثَقَّلٌ مثقل : see ثَقِيلٌ . ― -b2- Also (assumed tropical:) Ill received; disapproved; not rendered an object of love to hearts. (Ham p. 37.)

مُثَقَّلَةٌ مثقل مثقله مثقلة A stone of marble; (JK;) a piece of marble by which a carpet is made heavy: (K:) by rule it should be with kesr to the ق . (TA.)

مِثْقَالٌ مثقال 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 Kur x. 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.) ― -b2- A thing with which one weights; as also ↓ ثِقْلٌ ; i. e., any of the weights of the balance. (Er-Rághib, TA.) ― -b3- A certain weight, of which the quantity is well known; (JK;) a dirhem and three sevenths of a dirhem; (Msb, and K in art. 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.) ― -b4- [A certain coin;] i. q. دِينَارٌ , q. v.; (Msb in art. دنر ;) a مِثْقَال of gold: pl. مَثَاقِيلُ . (S, K.) ― -b5- أَلْقَى عَلَيْهِ مَثَاقِيلَهُ He threw upon him his weight, or burden; syn. مَوءُونَتَهُ [perhaps meaning the burden of supporting him]. (Aboo-Nasr, S, K.) [See also ثِقْلٌ .]

مُتَثَاقِلٌ متثاقل Bearing one's weight upon a thing: whence the saying, وَطِيءَهُ وَطْأَةَ المُتَثَاقِلِ [He trod upon him, or it, with the tread of him who bears his weight, or presses heavily]. (TA.)

مُسْتَثْقَلٌ مستثقل : see ثَقِيلٌ .

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