What is "hudna"

n. 1 truce, armistice, cease-fire 2 a pause to regroup, rearm, and prepare for the next fight

A hudna (from the Arabic meaning "calm" or "quiet") is a truce or armistice. It is sometimes mistranslated as " cease-fire". In his medieval dictionary of classical Arabic, the Lisan al-Arab, Ibn al-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."

A famous early hudna was the Treaty of Hudaybiyyah between Muhammad and the Quraysh tribe.