حبل

مَحْبَلٌ محبل The time of pregnancy: (K:) [or the time of one's mother's pregnancy: for] you say, كَانَ ذٰلِكَ فِى مَحْبَلِ فُلَانٍ That was in the time of such a one's mother's being pregnant with him. (S, TA.) So in the saying of El-Mutanakhkhil El-Hudhalee: خُطَّ لَهُ ذٰلِكَ فِى المَحْبَلِ لَا تَقِهِ المَوْتَ وَقِيَّاتُهُ [ His possessions by means of which he preserves himself shall not preserve him from death: that was written for him in the time when his mother was pregnant with him: or the last word is المَهْبِلِ: so in the TA in arts. هبل and وقى: see what here follows, in the next sentence]: or the meaning is that here following. (TA.) ― -b2- [The register of God's decrees; which is called] the first writing: (ISd, K:) but in the verse cited above, the last word, accord. to some, is ↓ المَحْبِل, (TA,) which means المَهْبِل, (K, TA,) and this is the reading best known, signifying the place of gestation in the womb. (TA.)