حمل

حَمَالَةٌ حمال حماله حمالة A bloodwit, (S, K, TA,) or a debt, an obligation, or a responsibility, that must be paid, discharged, or performed, taken upon himself by a person, (S, TA,) or taken upon themselves by a party of men, (K, TA,) for others; (S, K, TA;) as also ↓ حَمَالٌ, accord. to the T and M; or ↓ حِمَالٌ, accord. to the K: (TA:) or a responsibility which one takes upon himself for a debt or a bloodwit: pl. حَمَالَاتٌ: (Msb:) the pl. of حمال is حُمُلٌ. (K.)