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حزب

العربية

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حزب¹

Where it comes from

Probably together with Ge'ez ሕዝብ (ḥəzb, “people, nation”) borrowed from Old South Arabian 𐩢𐩸𐩨 (ḥzb, “troop”), originating there with assimilated voicedness from the verb cognate to حَسَبَ (ḥasaba, “to enumerate, to reckon”) in the understanding of “an enumeration (of men), a collective, a troop”.

noun حِزْب · ḥizb · أَحْزَاب · الْحِزْب

  1. political party
  2. team, group
  3. collective, association
  4. troop, number of men
  5. confederates
  6. partisans
  7. sect
  8. part
  9. division of the Qur'an, hizb (one of the sixty sections into which the Qur'an is divided)

حزب²

Where it comes from

From the concept of exterior bands (أَحْزَاب (ʔaḥzāb)) pressuring upon a region.

verb حَزَبَ · ḥazaba · يَحْزُبُ · حَزْب · حَازِب

  1. ambitransitive to befall, happen to, occur

noun حَزْب · ḥazb

  1. noun from verb verbal noun of حَزَبَ (ḥazaba) (form I)

In English

  • party group of people forming one side in a given dispute, contest etc.
  • political party political organization
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@misc{micwyn_2026,
  title = {حزب},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/ar/%D8%AD%D8%B2%D8%A8},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}