Lane's Arabic-English Lexicon

حَوْزٌ

Root: حوز

Full Definition

حَوْزٌ Verbal.Noun of 1 [q. v.].
2 فِى حَوْزِهِ: see حَوْزَةٌ.

def.2 A place of which a man takes possession, and around which a dam (مُسَنَّاةٌ) is made: pl. أَحْوَازٌ.
2 حَوْزُ الدَّارِ: see حَيِّزٌ.

def.3 لَيْلَةُ الحَوْزِ The first night during which camels repair towards the water when it is distant from the pasture: because they are driven gently that night: but when their faces are turned towards the water and they are left to pasture that night, the night is called لَيْلَةُ الطَّلَقِ. One says to a man, when he holds back respecting an affair, دَعْنِى مِنْ حَوْزِكَ وَطَلَقِكَ [Let me alone and cease from this and that discursion of thine]. And one says also, طَوَّلَ عَلَيْنَا فُلَانٌ بِٱلْحَوْزِ وَٱلطَّلَقِ قَبْلَ القَرَبِ [Such a one was prolix, or tedious, to us with this and that discursion before coming to the point].
2 حَوْزٌ is also used as an epithet; though properly an Verbal.Noun: you say, سَوْقٌ حَوْزٌ [A gentle driving: or a vehement driving].


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