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ثقل

Root entry · 1 derived lemma

ثِقْلٌ ثقل Weight: or a weight: syn. وَزْنٌ: (S, Msb, KL:) pl. أَثْقَالٌ. (S.) So in the phrase أَعْطِهِ ثِقْلَهُ [ Give thou him his, or its, weight ]. (S, Msb.) See also مِثْقَالٌ. You say also, أَلْقَى عَلَيْهِ ثِقْلَهُ or ↓ ثِقَلَهُ [ He threw upon him his weight: see مِثْقَالٌ, last sentence: and see جِرْمٌ]. (S in art. اوق &c., accord. to different copies.) ― -b2- And A load, or burden: (KL:) or a heavy load or burden: pl. as above. (K.) وَتَحْمِلُ أَثْقَالَكُمْ, in the Kur xvi. 7, means And they carry your loads, or burdens; (Bd;) or your heavy loads or burdens. (TA.) ― -b3- أَثْقَالٌ (as pl. of ثِقْلٌ, K, or of ↓ ثَقَلٌ, Bd) also signifies (tropical:) The treasures, or buried treasures, of the earth: and its dead, or corpses. (K, TA, and Bd and Jel in xcix. 2.) ― -b4- Also (as pl. of ثِقْلٌ, K) (tropical:) Sins. (JK, K.) So in the saying in the Kur [xxix. 12], وَلَيَحْمِلُنَّ أَثْقَالَهُمْ وَأَثْقَالًا مَعَ أَثْقَالِهِمْ (tropical:) [ And they shall assuredly bear their sins, and sins (of others whom they have seduced) with their sins ]. (TA.)

Derived headwords

ثِقْلٌ
  1. 1.
أَعْطِهِ ثِقْلَهُ
عَلَيْهِ ثِقْلَهُ
وَتَحْمِلُ أَثْقَالَكُمْ
وَلَيَحْمِلُنَّ أَثْقَالَهُمْ وَأَثْقَالًا مَعَ