حلق

حَالِقَةٌ حالق حالقه حالقة [an epithet (being fem. of حَالِقٌ q. v.) in which the quality of a subst. predominates] (tropical:) A year of drought, barrenness, or dearth: so in the saying, وَقَعَتْ فِيهِمْ حَالِقَةٌ لَا تَدَعُ شَيْئًا اـِلَّا أَهْلَكَتْهُ (tropical:) [ A year of drought, &c., happened among them, not leaving anything without its destroying it ]. (TA.) ― -b2- And الحَالِقَةُ (tropical:) The cutting, or abandoning, or forsaking, of kindred, or relations; syn. قَطِيعَةُ الرَّحِمِ; (Khálid Ibn-Jenebeh, K, TA;) and mutual wronging, and evil-speaking: (Khálid Ibn-Jenebeh, TA:) or that which destroys, and utterly cuts off, religion; like as the razor utterly cuts off hair: occurring in a trad., in which البَغْضَاآءُ [i. e. vehement hatred] and الحَالِقَةُ are termed the disease of the nations (دَاآءُ الأُمَمِ). (TA.) ― -b3- See also حَالِقٌ, last sentence but one.