مَأْزِمٌ
Root: ازم
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مَأْزِمٌ
A narrow, or strait, place; a place of narrowness or straitness; like مَأْزِلٌ; of a land, and of the pudendum muliebre, and of life, or of the means of subsistence; or of any kind: any narrow road between two mountains: a narrow place in mountains, such that one part meets another, and the place beyond widens: pl. مَآزِمُ.
2 And hence, A place of war or fight; because of the straitness of the state thereof, and the difficulty of escape from it.
2 And hence, A place of war or fight; because of the straitness of the state thereof, and the difficulty of escape from it.
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