حمل

حَمْلٌ حمل [inf. n. of 1, q. v. ― -b2- (tropical:) Gestation: see an ex. voce اـِنْىٌ. ― -b3- And hence,] (assumed tropical:) The young that is borne in the womb (M, K) of any animal; (M, TA;) and (assumed tropical:) the fruit of a tree, (IDrd, S, M, Msb, K,) as also ↓ حِمْلٌ: (IDrd, S, M, K:) or the former, (assumed tropical:) the thing that is in a belly, or on the head of a tree: (ISk, S, M, Mgh, K:) and ↓ the latter, a thing borne, or carried, (Msb, K,) on the back; [i. e. a load, or burden; ] (Msb;) the thing that is on the back or on the head: (ISk, S, M, Mgh, K:) or the former, (assumed tropical:) a burden that is borne internally; as the young in the belly, and the water in the clouds, and the fruit in the tree as being likened to the حَمْل of the woman: and ↓ the latter, a burden that is borne externally; as the thing that is borne on the back: (Er-Rághib, TA:) or [when applied to fruit] the former signifies a fruit that is internal: and ↓ the latter, a fruit that is external: (M, K:) or the former, fruit of a tree when large, or much: and ↓ the latter, fruit when not large, or when not much and large: (K accord. to different copies:) this is the saying of AO, mentioned in the T, in art. شمل, where, in the copies of the T, is found ما لم يكثر, not مالم يكبر: (TA:) and the former also occurs as meaning a burden that requires, for the carrying it, a beast or the hire of a porter: (Mgh:) the pl. [of pauc.] of the latter (Mgh, Msb, K) and of the former (K) is أَحْمَالٌ (S, Mgh, Msb, K) and [the pl. of mult.] (of the former, K, * TA) حِمَالٌ (K) and (of the latter, Msb) حُمُولٌ (Msb, K) and حُمُولَةٌ. (S, M, Mgh, Sgh.) Hence, (in a trad., TA) هٰذَا الحِمَالُ لَاحِمَالُ خَيْبَرَ (assumed tropical:) [ This is the fruit: not the fruit of Kheyber ]: meaning that it is the fruit of Paradise; and that it does not fail, or come to an end. (M, K.) ― -b4- See also what next follows.