عِزَّة

EizapN * A party of men (S, Msb, K) such as is termed EuSobapN [i. e., as expl. in the O in art. ESb , who league together to defend one another ], (K, TA,) above, or exceeding, [ such as compose ] a Haloqap : (TA:) or, accord. to Er-Rághib, a company of men who assert their relationship, one to another, either by birth or by the leaguing together for mutual aid: (TA:) [for] the p is a substitute for the final radical letter which is w : (Msb:) or, as some say, it is from EazaY signifying “ he was, or became, patient; ” as though they were a company who took patience by one another's example: (TA:) [for, accord. to J,] the p is a substitute for Y : (S:) the pl. is Eizuwna (S, Msb, K) and Euzuwna and EizFY , but they did not say EizaAtN : (S:) hence Eiziyna in the Kur lxx. 37, (S, TA,) [expl. as] meaning companies in a state of dispersion: (TA:) or separate, or sundry, parties: pl. of EizapN , which is [said to be] originally EizowapN , from [the inf. n.] AlEazowu : as though each party asserted their relationship [as sons] to other than those to whom the other party asserted their relationship: (Ksh, Bd:) Eizuwna is expl. by Et-Tarasoosee as meaning companies coming in a state of dispersion. (Msb.) One says, fiY Ald~aAri Eizuwna , meaning [ In the house, or abode, are ] several sorts of men. (As, S.)