جزء

جُزْءٌ جزء A part, or portion, (Msb, K, TA,) or division, (TA,) of a thing; (Msb, TA;) properly and conventionally; (TA;) as also ↓ جَزْءٌ; (K;) a constituent part of a thing, as of a ship, and of a house or tent, and of a sum in reckoning; (B, TA;) [ an ingredient of any compound or mixture;] a share, or lot: (TA:) pl. أَجْزَاآءٌ: (S, Msb, K, &c. :) it has no other pl. (Sb, TA.) ― -b2- [ A volume of a book.] ― -b3- A foot of a verse. (TA.) ― -b4- In the Kur [xliii. 14], where it is said, وَجَعَلُوا لَهُ مِنْ عِبَادِهِ جُزْءًا, (K, TA,) or, as some read, جُزُءًا, (Bd,) it means Females; (K, TA;;) i. e., they asserted the angels to be the daughters of God: so says Th: and Aboo-Is-hák says that it means, they asserted God's share of offspring to be the females; but that he had not found this in old poetry, nor had persons worthy of confidence related it on the authority of the Arabs [of the classical times]: Z disallows it, asserting it to be a lie against the Arabs; and Bd follows him: El-Khafájee says that the word may be used figuratively; for, as Eve was created of a part (جُزْء) of Adam, the word جزء may be applied to denote the female. (MF, TA.)