حسب

حُسْبَانٌ حسبان : see حِسَابٌ. -A2- Also A punishment. (S, K.) ― -b2- A calamity; an affliction with which a man is tried. (Aboo-Ziyád, K.) ― -b3- Evil; mischief. (Aboo-Ziyád, K.) ― -b4- Locusts. (Aboo-Ziyád, S, K.) ― -b5- Dust: or smoke: syn. عَجَاجٌ. (K.) ― -b6- Fire. (TA.) This, and each of the five significations next preceding, and that next following, have been assigned to the word as used in the Kur xviii. 38. (TA.) See also حُسْبَانَةٌ. ― -b7- Small arrows, (Mgh, Msb, K,) or short arrows, (S,) which are shot from Persian bows: (Mgh, Msb:) said by IDrd to be, in this sense, postclassical: (TA:) or arrows which a man shoots in the hollow of a reed, or cane; drawing the bow, he discharges twenty of them at once, and they pass by nothing without wounding it, whether it be an armed man or another object; they come forth like rain, and scatter among the people: (ISh, TA:) or small arrows, with slender heads, in the hollow of a reed, or cane, which, when discharged, come forth like a shower of rain, and scatter, and pass by nothing without wounding it: (Az, Msb:) or iron-headed arrows, like large needles, slender, but somewhat long, and without edges [ to the heads ]: (Th, TA:) n. un. with ة. (S, Mgh, Msb, K.) -A3- It is also said to signify The circumference of a mill-stone: ― -b2- and hence, in the Kur lv. 4, [see 1, above,] to mean The [ revolving ] firmament. (El-Khafájee, MF.)