حبل

حَبَلَ

To bind, tie, or make fast with a rope or cord.

Form I verb.

• Lane · entry 13365

حَبَلَ

To make a covenant or obtain a pledge of security.

A figurative verbal extension from binding; the pledge may secure a person or thing.

• Lane · entry 13365

حَبَلَ

To set a snare for game or catch it in a snare; figuratively, to ensnare, captivate, or prevent someone from leaving.

The figurative uses include an eye catching motes, love captivating a person, and death or another force ensnaring someone.

• Lane · entry 13365

حَبِلَ

To become pregnant.

Used of a woman and, according to the cited usage, of female animals or beasts.

• Lane · entry 13365

حَبِلَ

To become full and swollen with drink or water.

A figurative use likening a swollen belly to pregnancy.

• Lane · entry 13365

حَبِلَ

To become angry.

Figurative development from the pregnancy-related sense.

• Lane · entry 13365

حَبَّلَ

Of seed-produce, to shoot parts or ears upon one another, or to become compacted and filled with grain.

Form II, used of growing seed-produce or corn.

• Lane · entry 13366

أَحْبَلَ

Of certain trees, to scatter their blossoms and form or compact their fruit and seed-pods.

Form IV, used especially of trees of the ʿiḍāh type.

• Lane · entry 13367

أَحْبَلَ

To fecundate or impregnate.

Form IV; synonymous with causing fertilization.

• Lane · entry 13367

حَبْل

An elongated, extended, collected, and elevated tract of sand.

A landscape term based on the shape and extension of a rope.

• Lane · entry 13370

حَبْل

A long creeping, twining, or rope-like stalk, shoot, or branch.

Applied to elongated plant growth.

• Lane · entry 13370

حَبْل

A cordlike anatomical structure, including a ligament, vein, nerve, or sinew in the shoulder, forearm, back, shank, or penis.

These are specialized body-part expressions distinct from the Quranic حَبْلُ الْوَرِيد usage.

• Lane · entry 13370

حَبْل

Nearness, reach, or practical availability in the expression عَلَى حَبْلِ ذِرَاعِكَ.

An idiom meaning within one's power, reach, or easy ability.

• Lane · entry 13370

حَبْل

The station where horses assembled for a race before being released.

A conventional term associated with the rope or marked line at the starting place.

• Lane · entry 13370

حَبْل

Heaviness, weight, or ponderousness.

A separate lexical use synonymous with ثِقَل.

• Lane · entry 13370

حِبْل

A calamity or misfortune.

A distinct vocalized noun; plural حُبُول.

• Lane · entry 13372

حِبْل

A sagacious, intelligent, or cunning person; in an idiomatic use, a gentle manager of cattle.

Used as a characterization of a person and in expressions describing intelligence, cunning, or skilled management.

• Lane · entry 13372

حَبَل

The fetus in the womb; also the offspring of a fetus, and more generally something contained within another thing.

The extended sense includes a pearl in an oyster-shell or wine in a bottle; the expression حَبَلُ الحَبَلَةِ refers to the offspring of an offspring in the womb.

• Lane · entry 13373

حَبَل

Fulness.

A figurative noun related to the sense of becoming full or swollen.

• Lane · entry 13373

حَبَل

Anger, or anger combined with grief.

A figurative noun related to the pregnancy image.

• Lane · entry 13373

حَبَل

A cry used to chide sheep or goats.

A fixed vocal call rather than an ordinary nominal meaning.

• Lane · entry 13373

حُبْلَة

The fruit or seed-pod of certain acacia trees, especially the samur, salam, and sayal.

The pod is described as curved and containing small dark grains; the term can also denote the produce of the ʿiḍāh trees generally.

• Lane · entry 13375

حُبْلَة

An ornament shaped like that fruit and worn on a woman's necklace.

A traditional ornament associated with pre-Islamic usage.

• Lane · entry 13375

حُبْلَة

A certain sweet or pleasant herb, or a tree eaten by lizards.

The botanical identification varies in the cited reports.

• Lane · entry 13375

حَبَلَة

A grapevine, its stock or branch, or an arch of its branches on a trellis.

The word is also used collectively for grapevines; it names a white, pointed grape variety of al-Ṭāʾif in one reported usage.

• Lane · entry 13376

حُبْلَى

Pregnant.

Used of a woman and also, in the cited lexical reports, of animals and beasts; it can be used figuratively of a night whose events are unknown.

• Lane · entry 13377

حُبْلِيّ

Relating to pregnancy or to a pregnant being.

A relational adjective derived from حُبْلَى.

• Lane · entry 13378

حَبْلَان

Full of beverage, wine, or water.

Used of a person whose belly is full; the feminine form is also reported.

• Lane · entry 13379

حَبْلَان

Full of anger or angry against someone.

A derived adjective with a feminine form in ة.

• Lane · entry 13379

حُبَال

Much hair.

A figurative plural-pattern noun.

• Lane · entry 13383

حَبِيلُ بَرَح

One who stands his ground without fleeing; hence courageous, and an appellation for a lion.

The image is of someone held fast in place as if by a rope or snare.

• Lane · entry 13385

حِبَالَة

A snare or device for taking, catching, or trapping game, wild animals, or birds.

The word may specifically denote the cord of the person who hunts with a snare; plural حَبَائِل or أَحَابِيل according to the cited forms.

• Lane · entry 13386

حِبَالَة

A figurative snare or cause of entanglement, including a cause of death.

The cited expressions include the snares of the Devil and the causes of death.

• Lane · entry 13386

حِبَالَة

A person who carefully manages camels so that they do not escape.

A conventional figurative use derived from controlling with a snare.

• Lane · entry 13386

حَابِل

One who binds, ties, or makes fast with a rope or cord.

Active participle used as a personal designation.

• Lane · entry 13387

حَابِل

The setter or owner of a snare for game.

In proverbial expressions it can also designate a party involved in confusion or disorder, especially in the expression contrasting the snare-setter with the archer.

• Lane · entry 13387

حَابِل

An enchanter or practitioner of magic.

A figurative occupational use of the snare-setting image.

• Lane · entry 13387

حَابِل

A lizard or gazelle that feeds on the حُبْلَة plant.

A specialized zoological use.

• Lane · entry 13387

حَابُول

A hoop-shaped rope used for climbing palm trees.

Traditionally made from bark or palm fibre.

• Lane · entry 13388

مَحْبَل

The time during which a mother is pregnant.

Used in expressions referring to the period before a person's birth.

• Lane · entry 13391

مَحْبَل

The register of divine decrees, described as the first writing.

A reported alternative interpretation; in the cited verse discussion, the better-known reading is مَهْبِل, meaning the place of gestation in the womb.

• Lane · entry 13391

مُحَبَّل

Hair that is crisped, twisted, contracted, or plaited so that its locks resemble ropes.

A derived descriptive form for cord-like or braided hair.

• Lane · entry 13393

مَحْبُول

A wild animal caught or entangled in a snare, or one for which a snare has been set.

The cited usage distinguishes an animal merely targeted by a snare from one that has fallen into it and been taken.

• Lane · entry 13394

مُحْتَبَل

The pastern of a beast, especially the pasterns of a horse.

Originally associated with the limb of a bird caught in a snare.

• Lane · entry 13395