Hudna

A hudna (from the Arabic هدنة meaning "calm" or "quiet") is a truce or armistice.^[1] It is sometimes translated as "cease-fire". In his medieval dictionary of classical Arabic, the Lisan al-Arab, Ibn Manzur defined it as:

"hadana: he grew quiet. hadina: he quieted (transitive or intransitive). haadana: he made peace with. The noun from each of these is hudna."^{[citation needed]}

A famous early hudna was the Treaty of Hudaybiyyah between Muhammad and the Quraysh tribe.^{[citation needed]}