حمل

حَمَّالٌ حمال A porter, or carrier of burdens. (Msb, K.) ― -b2- حَمَّالَةُ الحَطَبِ [is applied in the Kur cxi. 4 to a woman, lit. meaning The female carrier of firewood: and as an intensive epithet is applied to a man, as meaning] (tropical:) The calumniator, or slanderer. (TA.)