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mivoqaAlN mvqAl The weight ( miyzaAn , JK, S, K, or wazon , Msb, TA, and Jel in iv. 44 and x. 62 and xxi. 48, or zinap , TA) of a thing, (JK, S, Msb, K,) of the like thereof ( mino mivolihi [but why this is added I do not see]); (S, Msb, K;) [i. e.] its equal in weight; (PS, and Bd in x. 62;) its quantity ( miqodaAr ). (Bd in xxi. 48.) maA yaEozubu Eano rab~ika mino mivoqaAli *ar~apK , in the Kur x. 62, means There is not hidden from thy Lord aught of the weight of the smallest ant: (Jel:) or a thing equal in weight to a small ant; or to the motes that are seen in a ray of the sun that enters through an aperture. (Bd.) ― -b2- A thing with which one weights; as also ↓ viqolN ; i. e., any of the weights of the balance. (Er-Rághib, TA.) ― -b3- A certain weight, of which the quantity is well known; (JK;) a dirhem and three sevenths of a dirhem; (Msb, and K in art. mk ;) i. e., the seventh part of ten dirhems: (Msb:) or [ a dirhem and a half; so in the present day; i. e.,] seventy-two sha'eerehs: (El-Karmánee, TA:) or twenty keeráts. (Hidáyeh, TA.) ― -b4- [ A certain coin; ] i. q. diynaArN , q. v.; (Msb in art. dnr ;) a mivoqaAl of gold: pl. mavaAqiylu . (S, K.) ― -b5- A^aloqaY Ealayohi mavaAqiylahu He threw upon him his weight, or burden; syn. maw^uwnatahu [perhaps meaning the burden of supporting him ]. (Aboo-Nasr, S, K.) [See also viqolN .]