عزو

عِزَةٌ ذ A party of men (S, Msb, K) such as is termed عُصْبَةٌ [i. e., as expl. in the O in art. عصب, who league together to defend one another ], (K, TA,) above, or exceeding, [ such as compose ] a حَلْقَة: (TA:) or, accord. to Er-Rághib, a company of men who assert their relationship, one to another, either by birth or by the leaguing together for mutual aid: (TA:) [for] the ة is a substitute for the final radical letter which is و: (Msb:) or, as some say, it is from عَزَى signifying “ he was, or became, patient; ” as though they were a company who took patience by one another's example: (TA:) [for, accord. to J,] the ة is a substitute for ى: (S:) the pl. is عِزُونَ (S, Msb, K) and عُزُونَ and عِزًى, but they did not say عِزَاتٌ: (S:) hence عِزِينَ in the Kur lxx. 37, (S, TA,) [expl. as] meaning companies in a state of dispersion: (TA:) or separate, or sundry, parties: pl. of عِزَةٌ, which is [said to be] originally عِزْوَةٌ, from [the inf. n.] العَزْوُ: as though each party asserted their relationship [as sons] to other than those to whom the other party asserted their relationship: (Ksh, Bd:) عِزُونَ is expl. by Et-Tarasoosee as meaning companies coming in a state of dispersion. (Msb.) One says, فِى الدَّارِ عِزُونَ, meaning [ In the house, or abode, are ] several sorts of men. (As, S.)