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Etymology

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Unadapted borrowing from Arabic حِزْب (ḥizb, group, band, faction)

Noun

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hizb (plural hizbs or ahzab)

  1. each of the roughly equilongitudinal 60 parts in which the Quran has been traditionally divided to ease its reading and memorization

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