The story
- Arabic · borrowed fromحِزْب“group, band, faction”
- English todayhizb
Unadapted borrowing from Arabic حِزْب (ḥizb, “group, band, faction”)
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.
hizb
Today it means: each of the roughly equilongitudinal 60 parts in which the Quran has been traditionally divided to ease its reading and memorization Full definition →
Arabic حِزْب