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حَمَلٌ حمل A lamb; i. e. the young one of the ewe in the first year; (Mgh, Msb;) i. q. بَرَقٌ; (S;) or خَرُوفٌ [explained in the K in art. خرف as the male young one of the sheep-kind; or such as has pastured, and become strong]: (K, and S and Msb in art. خرف:) or such as is termed جَذَعٌ, [i. e. a year old, or from six to ten months,] of the young of the sheep-kind; and less than this [in age]: (ISd, K:) accord. to Er-Rághib, it signifies مَحْمُولٌ [borne, or carried]; and the young of the sheep-kind is particularly called thus because borne, or carried, on account of its impotence, and of the nearness of the time when its mother was pregnant with it: (TA:) pl. حُمْلَانٌ (S, M, Mgh, Sgh, Msb, K) and أَحْمَالٌ. (M, K.) ― -b2- [Hence,] الحَمَلُ (assumed tropical:) [The sign Aries;] a certain sign of the zodiac; (K;) the first of the signs of the zodiac; (S;) the constellation comprising, first, the شَرَطَانِ, which are its two horns; then, the بُطَيْن; then, the ثُرَيَّا. (T, TA.) One says, مُطِرْنَا بِنَوْءِ الحَمَلِ and بنوء الطَّلِىِّ (assumed tropical:) [We were, or have been, given rain by the auroral setting of Aries: so the pagan Arabs used to say: see نَوْءٌ; and see مَنَازِلُ القَمَرِ, in art. نزل]. (TA.) One says also, هٰذَا حَمَلٌ طَالِعًا (assumed tropical:) [This is Aries, rising]; suppressing the ال, but making the noun to remain determinate; and thus one does in the case of every name of a sign of the zodiac, preserving the ال or suppressing it. (TA.) ― -b3- حَمَلٌ signifies also (tropical:) Clouds containing much water: (M, K, TA:) or black clouds: (T, TA: [see also حَوْمَلٌ, below:]) or, as some say, the rain [supposed to be given] by the نَوْء [see above] of الحَمَل. (TA.)
An Arabic-English Lexicon. London. Williams and Norgate. 1863.

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