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حوزPer Ibn Fāris: gathering and collecting together. (root hwz)

الحاء والواو والزاء أصل واحد وهو الجمع والتجمع

Ibn Fāris, Maqāyīs al-lugha · English rendering

حوز
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The words of ح و ز that our sources attest: the root's letters in green, the added letters in gold.

20 words7 verbs5 verbal nouns1 participle1 intensive or elative4 other nouns2 plurals

  • حازَhe drew, collected, or gathered, it together
  • مُتَحَيِّز—
  • حَوْزَةpossession; territory
  • تحوّزَhe, or it, writhed, or twisted, about, and turned over and over
  • تحاوزَthe two parties, or divisions, turned away, each from the other, in war or …
The whole family6 groups, by pattern; tap a pattern to see what it does
Verbs7حازَ · حوّزَ · أَحِزِ

The root as an action: the bare Form I, and the Forms made by adding letters before, inside or after the root.grammar →

  • حازَhe drew, collected, or gathered, it togetherLaneForm Ilibrary ×2Lane
  • حوّزَForm IILaneIbn Fāris
  • أَحِزِForm IVLane
  • تحوّزَhe, or it, writhed, or twisted, about, and turned over and overLaneForm VLane
Verbal nouns5حَوْز · اِحْتِيَاز · تَحْوِيز

The action itself, named as a noun (maṣdar).grammar →

  • حَوْزForm I · Lane: inf. n.LaneIbn Fāris
  • اِحْتِيَازForm I · Lane: inf. n.Lane
  • تَحْوِيزForm I · Lane: inf. n.Lane
  • حَيْزForm I · Lane: inf. n.Lane
  • حِيَازَةForm I · Lane: inf. n.Lane
Participles1مُتَحَيِّز

The one who does it, and the one it is done to.grammar →

Intensives, qualities and the elative1حَوَّاز

The quality carried far, held as a trait, or compared.grammar →

  • حَوَّازintensive (faʿʿāl)Lane
Other nouns4حَوْزَة · تَحَيَّز · حَيِّز

Nouns on other patterns; their meaning is learned word by word.grammar →

  • حَوْزَةpossession; territoryautonounlibrary ×1LaneIbn Fāris
  • تَحَيَّزthe property, or the camels or the like, became drawn, collected, or …LanenounLaneIbn Fāris
  • حَيِّزnounLane
  • مُسْتَحِيزَةportion of the earth, or of land, comprehended within certain limitsLanenounLane
Plurals2أَحْوَاز · أَحْيَاز

Broken plurals rebuild the word on a new pattern; sound plurals add an ending.grammar →

  • أَحْوَازbroken plural of حَوْزLane
  • أَحْيَازbroken plural of حَيِّزLane
Why this shape?What each of the 12 patterns does

What each pattern does. The pattern gives a tendency, not a rule: many words have drifted into meanings of their own.

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مَفْعَلَةح و زمَحْوَزَة

Not in our sources. A possible shape, not a word we can show: the Quran, the library and Lane do not have it for this root.

Place noun with -a. The place noun with the feminine -a. Sometimes it is only a variant of mafʿal; often it names the place where a thing is found in abundance (maʾsada, 'a place full of lions'). So maktab is the place of writing, and maktaba, where writings are gathered: a library, a bookshop. Our summary

But: maktaba is not in our classical dictionaries for k-t-b: Lane and al-Jawharī give maktab ('a school'), none gives maktaba. Its sense of 'library, bookshop' fits the pattern of abundance, but that is our reading of the pattern, not a classical entry. Many mafʿala words are single items of usage (maqbara 'cemetery'), which the grammarians call heard, not formed by rule.

The grammarians on this pattern (4)
  • ما يكون مفعلة لازمة لها الهاء والفتحة … وذلك إذا أردت أن تكثر الشيء بالمكان، وذلك قولك: أرض مسبعة، ومأسدة

    Chapter on what is mafʿala, with the -a and the a-vowel always: that is when you mean that a thing abounds in a place, as you say 'a land of many beasts of prey (masbaʿa), of many lions (maʾsada)'

    Sībawayh (d. c. 180/796), al-Kitāb, ed. ʿAbd al-Salām Hārūn, 3rd ed. (Cairo: al-Khānjī, 1988), 4:94 · OpenITI line 21027–21028 ↗ · on this site · OpenITI RELEASE v2025.1.9, CC BY-NC-SA 4.0

  • و نحو المظنة و المقبرة فتحا و ضما ليس بقياس

    and words like maẓinna and maqbara (with a or u) are not by rule

    Ibn al-Ḥājib (d. 646/1249), al-Shāfiya fī ʿilm al-taṣrīf, ed. Ḥasan Aḥmad al-ʿUthmān (Mecca: al-Maktaba al-Makkiyya, 1995), 1:30 · OpenITI line 223 ↗ · on this site · OpenITI RELEASE v2025.1.9, CC BY-NC-SA 4.0

  • “designate the place where the object signified by the noun from which they are formed, is found in large numbers or quantities” Wright, Grammar I, §247, p. 148 ↗ · on nouns of abundance, maf'ala · 3rd ed. (Cambridge, 1896) · public domain
  • “Nouns of time and place not unfrequently take the feminine form” Wright, Grammar I, §225, p. 128 ↗ · on maf'ala as a variant of maf'al · 3rd ed. (Cambridge, 1896) · public domain

This root has a weak or doubled letter, so real words change shape (qāla → qāʾil, not qāwil); the machine pours the letters in as they are, and matches attested words by their regular pattern.

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Attested means found in our data: the Quranic Arabic Corpus (lemmas, verb Forms, participles, verbal nouns, plurals), the library's words (automatic analysis), Lane's Lexicon (his headwords, the Forms he numbers, the verbal nouns and plurals he names) and Ibn Fāris's entry. Nothing is generated for this list. Meanings are Lane's first gloss in his entry, or else the analyser's gloss (“auto”). Vowelling follows the corpus, then Lane, then the analyser; verbs are given in the regular perfect. Lane's Lexicon thins out after qāf, and a few of his entries cover several roots at once: those roots show no Lane. The patterns, written with ف ع ل, are computed by us.

English: AI translation
  • al-Khalīl · 170Al-ḥawz (الحوز) is gentle driving/travel.

    al-Khalīl b. Aḥmad (d. c. 170/786), Kitāb al-ʿAyn. The first Arabic dictionary, arranged by permutations of the root letters.

    Al-ḥawz (الحوز) is gentle driving/travel. Al-ḥawz (الحوز) is also a place which a man ḥāza (حاز), 'claims,' setting up an embankment (masnāh) around it; its plural is aḥwāz (أحواز). Anything you gather to yourself you have ḥuztahu (حزته) and iḥtaztahu (احتزته), 'gathered/claimed it.' A man's ḥawz (حوز) is his natural disposition, whether good or bad. Taḥawwaza (تحوز) a man - said when he does not settle in one place; the noun is al-taḥawwuz (التحوز). From this is His saying, the Exalted: "or withdrawing (mutaḥayyizan, متحيزا) to a company [of fighters]" [Q. 8:16], meaning 'moving aside.' Al-aḥwazī (الأحوزي) is one who drives well, though with some shyness/wildness in him. It is said: "He drives them together, having his own manner of driving (ḥawzī, حوزي)." Al-ḥawz (الحوز) also means sexual intercourse. It is said: "She spoke when he had mounted her (ḥāzahā, حازها) as one mounts a riding-beast (ḥawz al-maṭiyy, حوز المطي)..." And in the Hadith: "he did not tuḥawwiz (تحوز) [shift] from his bed."

    AI translation of the Arabic below

    حيز الدار: ما انضم إليها من المرافق والمنافع. وكل ناحية حيز على حدة، بتشديد الياء. وجمعه: أحياز، وكان قياسه أن يكون أحوازا، كميت وأموات، ولكنهم فرقوا بينهما كراهة الالتباس. والتحيز في الحرب: أن ينضم قوم إلى قوم. وانحازوا: تركوا مركزهم ومعركة قتالهم، ومالوا إلى موضع آخر.

  • al-Jawharī · 393Al-ḥawz (الحوز) is gathering.

    al-Jawharī (d. c. 393/1003), al-Ṣiḥāḥ. Admits only usage he judged sound.

    Al-ḥawz (الحوز) is gathering. Whoever gathers something to himself has ḥāzahu (حازه) ḥawzan (حوزا) and ḥiyāzatan (حيازة); also iḥtāzahu (احتازه). Al-ḥawz (الحوز) and al-ḥayz (الحيز) mean gentle driving. One says ḥāza al-ibil (حاز الإبل), 'he drove the camels,' yaḥūzuhā (يحوزها) and yaḥīzuhā (يحيزها). Al-aḥwazī (الأحوزي) is like al-aḥwadhī (الأحوذي), meaning the skillful, light driver, according to Abū ʿAmr. Al-ʿAjjāj said: "He drives them together, having his own manner of driving (ḥawzī, حوزي), as the champion drives the troop (al-fiʾa, الفئة)..." Abū ʿUbayd transmits it with dhāl [aḥwadhī], the meaning being the same; he means by it the bull that drives off the dogs, having his own inner drive impelling him out of his vigor. Ḥawz al-ibil (حوز الإبل) means driving the camels toward water. Al-Aṣmaʿī said: when the pasture is far from water, the first night one heads them toward it is called laylat al-ḥawz (ليلة الحوز), 'the night of driving.' One says ḥawwazahā (حوزها) [he drove them]. He cited: "Driving them (ḥawzuhā, حوزها) from the lightning of al-Ghamīm, calm, walking with the gait of the ostrich, with driving (al-ḥawz, الحوز) and gentleness and with al-ṭamīm..." Al-muḥāwaza (المحاوزة) is intermingling. Taḥawwazat al-ḥayya (تحوزت الحية) and taḥayyazat (تحيزت) mean 'the snake writhed/coiled.' One says: 'What is wrong with you, writhing (tataḥawwaz, تتحوز) like a snake writhes (taḥawwuz al-ḥayya, تحوز الحية),' and 'twisting (tataḥayyaz, تتحيز) like a snake twists (taḥayyuz al-ḥayya, تحيز الحية).' Sībawayh said it is [the pattern] tafayʿul from ḥiztu al-shayʾ (حزت الشيء), 'I gathered the thing.' Al-Qutāmī said: "She withdrew (taḥayyazat, تحيزت) from me, fearing I might lodge with her as a guest, just as the viper withdrew (inḥāzat, انحازت), fearing to be struck..." He means: this old woman moves away from me and draws back, fearing I might impose myself on her as a guest. It is also transmitted 'taḥawwazat minnī' (تحوز مني). Abū ʿAmr said: 'taḥawwaza taḥawwuz al-ḥayya' (تحوز تحوز الحية) means the slowness in rising when one wishes to stand up. Al-ḥayz (الحيز) is whatever belongs to a house among its appurtenances; every district is a ḥayz (حيز), and its origin is from wāw. Al-ḥayz (الحيز) [lightened] is a lighter form of al-ḥayyiz (الحيز), like hayyin/hayn and layyin/layn; its plural is aḥyāz (أحياز). Al-ḥawza (الحوزة) means territory/region. Ḥawzat al-mulk (حوزة الملك) means the core [lit. 'egg'] of the kingdom. Inḥāza ʿanhu (انحاز عنه) means 'he turned away from him.' Inḥāza al-qawm (انحاز القوم) means 'the people abandoned their position for another.' Of allies one says: 'inḥāzū ʿan al-ʿaduww' (انحازوا عن العدو), 'they withdrew from the enemy,' and ḥāṣū (حاصوا) [swerved aside]; of enemies: 'inhazamū' (انهزموا), 'they were routed,' and 'wallaw mudbirīn' (ولوا مدبرين), 'they turned their backs and fled.' Taḥāwaza al-farīqān fī al-ḥarb (تحاوز الفريقان في الحرب) means each side withdrew (inḥāza, انحاز) from the other in battle.

    AI translation of the Arabic below

    الحوز: الجمع. وكل من ضم إلى نفسه شيئا فقد حازه حوزا وحيازة، واحتازه أيضا. والحوز والحيز: السوق اللين. وقد حاز الإبل يحوزها ويحيزها. والأحوزي مثل الأحوذي، وهو السائق الخفيف، عن أبي عمرو. قال العجاج: يحوزهن وله حوزي * كما يحوز الفئة الكمي * وأبو عبيد يرويه بالذال، والمعنى واحد، يعني به الثور أنه يطرد الكلاب وله طارد من نفسه يطرده، من نشاطه. وحوز الإبل: ساقها إلى الماء. قال الأصمعي: إذا كانت بعيدة المرعى من الماء فأول ليلة توجهها إلى الماء ليلة الحوز. وقد حوزها. وأنشد: حوزها من برق الغميم * أهدأ يمشى مشية الظليم * بالحوز والرفق وبالطميم * والمحاوزة: المخالطة. وتحوزت الحية وتحيزت، أي تلوت. يقال: مالك تتحوز تحوز الحية، وتتحيز تحيز الحية. قال سيبويه: هو تفيعل من حزت الشئ. قال القطامى: تحيز منى خشية أن أضيفها * كما انحازت الأفعى مخافة ضارب * يقول: تتنحى عني هذه العجوز وتتأخر خوفا أن أنزل عليها ضيفا. ويروى " تحوز منى ". قال أبو عمرو: وتحوز تحوز الحية، وهو بطء القيام إذا أراد أن يقوم. والحيز: ما انضم إلى الدار من مرافقها. وكل ناحية حيز، وأصله من الواو. والحيز: تخفيف الحيز، مثل هين وهين، ولين ولين. والحمع أحياز. والحوزة: الناحية. وحوزة الملك: بيضته. وانحاز عنه، أي عدل. وانحاز القوم: تركوا مركزهم إلى آخر. يقال للأولياء: انحازوا عن العدو وحاصوا، وللأعداء: انهزموا وولوا مدبرين. وتحاوز الفريقان في الحرب، أي انحاز كل فريق عن الآخر.

  • Ibn Fāris · 395Ḥāʾ, wāw, and zāy form a single root meaning gathering and congregation.

    Ibn Fāris (d. 395/1004), Maqāyīs al-Lugha. Seeks each root's original sense (aṣl).

    Ḥāʾ, wāw, and zāy form a single root meaning gathering and congregation. Every gathering-place and district is called ḥawz (حوز) and ḥawza (حوزة). One says 'so-and-so protected ḥawzatahu (الحوزة),' meaning his gathering-place and territory. A woman used this as a metaphor for what she ought to protect and defend, saying: "So I kept throwing dust in his face, away from me, while guarding the ḥawza (حوزة) of the absent one..." It is said taḥawwazat al-ḥayya (تحوزت الحية), 'the snake writhed/coiled,' when it twists. Al-Qutāmī said: "She withdrew (taḥayyazat, تحيزت) from me, fearing I might lodge with her as a guest, just as the viper withdrew (inḥāzat, انحازت), fearing to be struck..." Whoever gathers something to himself has ḥāzahu (حازه) ḥawzan (حوزا), 'gathered it.' A man's natural disposition is called his ḥawz (حوز). Al-ḥawzī (الحوزي) among people is one who withdraws (yanḥāzu, ينحاز) from them and keeps apart. The verse of al-ʿAjjāj is transmitted: "He drives them together, having his own manner of driving (ḥawzī, حوزي)..." referring to a donkey that gathers his female donkeys and drives them. Al-aḥwazī (الأحوزي) among men is like al-aḥwadhī (الأحوذي), and the derivation is the same.

    AI translation of the Arabic below

    الحاء والواو والزاء أصل واحد وهو الجمع والتجمع يقال لكل مجمع وناحية حوز وحوزة وحمى فلان الحوزة أي المجمع والناحية وجعلته المرأة مثلا لما ينبغي أن تحميه وتمنعه فقالت : — فظلت أحثي الترب في وجهه … عني وأحمي حوزة الغائب … ويقال تحوزت الحية إذا تلوت قال القطامي : — تحيز مني خشية أن أضيفها … كما انحازت الأفعى مخافة ضارب … وكل من ضم شيئا إلى نفسه فقد حازه حوزا ويقال لطبيعة الرجل حوز والحوزي من الناس الذي ينحاز عنهم ويعتزلهم ويروى بيت العجاج : — يحوزهن وله حوزي … وهو الحمار يجمع أتنه ويسوقها والأحوزي من الرجال مثل الأحوذي والقياس واحد

  • al-Rāghib · 502God, the Exalted, said: "or withdrawing (mutaḥayyizan, متحيزا) to a company [of fighters]" [Q.

    al-Rāghib al-Iṣfahānī (d. c. 502/1108), al-Mufradāt. Quranic vocabulary, from core sense to Quranic usage.

    God, the Exalted, said: "or withdrawing (mutaḥayyizan, متحيزا) to a company [of fighters]" [Q. 8:16], meaning 'moving to a ḥayz (حيز)' [an enclosed space]; its origin is from wāw. That is any gathering, part of it joined to another part. One says ḥiztu al-shayʾa aḥūzuhu ḥawzan (حزت الشيء أحوزه حوزا), 'I gathered the thing.' 'He guarded his ḥawzatahu (حوزته)' means his domain/collection. Taḥawwazat al-ḥayya (تحوزت الحية) and taḥayyazat (تحيزت) mean 'the snake writhed/coiled.' Al-aḥwazī (الأحوزي) is one who has gathered his ḥawz (حوز) [resources/affairs], girded and ready; the term is used [figuratively] for the light and swift one.

    AI translation of the Arabic below

    قال الله تعالى: أو متحيزا إلى فئة [الأنفال/ 16] ، أي: صائرا إلى حيز وأصله من الواو، وذلك كل جمع منضم بعضه إلى بعض، وحزت الشيء أحوزه حوزا، وحمى حوزته، أي: جمعه، وتحوزت الحية وتحيزت، أي: تلوت «1» ، والأحوزي: الذي جمع حوزه متشمرا، وعبر به عن الخفيف السريع.

  • Lisān · 711Al-ḥawz (الحوز) means vigorous driving as well as gentle, slow driving;

    Ibn Manẓūr (d. 711/1311), Lisān al-ʿArab. The great compendium of the earlier dictionaries (entry shortened).

    Al-ḥawz (الحوز) means vigorous driving as well as gentle, slow driving; it is also said that al-ḥawz (الحوز) and al-ḥayz (الحيز) [both] mean gentle driving. One says ḥāza al-ibil (حاز الإبل) - yaḥūzuhā (يحوزها) and yaḥīzuhā (يحيزها), ḥawzan (حوزا) and ḥayzan (حيزا) and ḥawzahā (حوزها) - meaning 'he drove the camels gently.' 'Sawq ḥawz (سوق حوز)' [driving of gentle type] is described by using the maṣdar [as a qualifier]. Al-Aṣmaʿī said: it is al-ḥawz (الحوز); and he cited: "I have watched you at the time of return, coming to water, long has been my driving (ḥawzī, حوزي) and urging (tinsāsī, تنساسي) with them..." It is said: ḥuzzahā (حزها) means 'drive it hard.' Laylat al-ḥawz (ليلة الحوز) is the first night the camels are headed toward water when it is far off; so named because that night one is gentle with them and drives them slowly. Ḥawz al-ibil (حوز الإبل) means 'he drove the camels to water.' He said: "Driving them (ḥawzuhā, حوزها) from the lightning of al-Ghamīm, calm, walking with the gait of the ostrich, with driving (al-ḥawz, الحوز) and gentleness and with al-ṭamīm..." And the poet's saying 'wa-lam taḥuz fī rikābī al-ʿayr' (ولم تحز في ركابي العير) means he did not press hard on it in driving; Thaʿlab said it means 'he did not overload it.' Al-aḥwazī (الأحوزي) and al-ḥawzī (الحوزي) mean one who drives well, with some shyness/wildness besides. Al-ʿAjjāj, describing a bull and dogs, said: "He drives them together (yaḥūzuhunna, يحوزهن), having his own manner of driving (ḥawzī, حوزي), as the champion drives the troop (al-fiʾa, الفئة)..." Al-aḥwazī (الأحوزي) and al-ḥawzī (الحوزي) also mean one earnest/serious in his affair. ʿĀʾisha, may God be pleased with her, said of ʿUmar, may God be pleased with him: 'By God, he was aḥwazī (أحوزي), unmatched [nasīj waḥdihi, نسيج وحده].' Ibn al-Athīr said: it means one who manages affairs well, with some shyness/wildness in him. Abū ʿAmr used to say al-aḥwazī (الأحوزي) means the light/agile one. Some transmit it: 'By God, he was aḥwadhiyyan' (أحوذيا), with dhāl, close in meaning to al-aḥwazī (الأحوزي), meaning the light/agile driver. Abū ʿUbayda used to transmit al-ʿAjjāj's rajaz verse as 'ḥawdhī' (حوذي) with dhāl, the meaning being the same; he means the bull driving off the dogs, having his own inner drive impelling him out of his own vigor and independence. Al-ʿAjjāj's phrase 'wa-lahu ḥawzī' (وله حوزي) means 'he has a reserved pace he has not spent,' i.e., he outstrips them with ease. Al-ḥawzī (الحوزي) [also] means one who seeks solitude where he settles and camps, alone, not mixing his dwelling or property with [other] households. Inḥāza al-qawm (انحاز القوم) means 'the people abandoned their position and battlefield and inclined toward another place.' Taḥawwaza ʿanhu (تحوز عنه) and taḥayyaza (تحيز) mean 'he withdrew/moved aside'; it is [the pattern] tafayʿul, originally taḥaywuz, with wāw changed to yāʾ due to the adjacent yāʾ and assimilated into it. Taḥawwaza lahu ʿan firāshihi (تحوز له عن فراشه) means 'he withdrew from his bed [to make room].' In the Hadith: 'kamā taḥawwaza lahu ʿan firāshihi' ('as he withdrew for him from his bed'). Abū ʿUbayda said: al-taḥawwuz (التحوز) means withdrawal (al-tanaḥḥī, التنحي); there are two dialectal forms: al-taḥawwuz (التحوز) and al-taḥayyuz (التحيز). God, Mighty and Exalted, said: 'or withdrawing (mutaḥayyizan, متحيزا) to a company [of fighters]' [Q. 8:16]; so al-taḥawwuz (التحوز) is [the pattern] tafaʿʿul, and al-taḥayyuz (التحيز) is [the pattern] tafayʿul. Al-Qutāmī, describing an old woman whose hospitality he sought and who kept evading him, said: "She withdrew (taḥawwazat, تحوزت) from me, fearing I might lodge with her as a guest, just as the viper withdrew (inḥāzat, انحازت), fearing to be struck..." He means: this old woman moves away and draws back, fearing I might impose myself on her as a guest. It is also transmitted 'taḥayyazat minnī' (تحيزت مني). Abū Isḥāq said regarding... [entry continues]

    AI translation of the Arabic below

    الحوز والحيز: السير الرويد والسوق اللين. وحاز الإبل يحوزها ويحيزها: سارها في رفق. والتحيز: التلوي والتقلب. وتحيز الرجل: أراد القيام فأبطأ ذلك عليه، والواو فيهما أعلى. وحيز حيز: من زجر المعزى؛ قال: شمطاء جاءت من بلاد البر ... قد تركت حيز، وقالت: حر ورواه ثعلب: حيه «1». وتحوزت الحية وتحيزت أي تلوت. يقال: ما لك تتحيز تحيز الحية؟ قال سيبويه: هو تفيعل من حزت الشيء؛ قال القطامي: تحيز مني خشية أن أضيفها ... كما انحازت الأفعى مخافة ضارب يقول: تتنحى هذه العجوز وتتأخر خوفا أن أنزل عليها ضيفا، ويروى: تحوز مني. وتحوز تحوز الحية وتحيزها، وهو بطء القيام إذا أراد أن يقوم فأبطأ ذلك عليه.

  • Lane · 1876English, synthesising the classical dictionaries.

    E. W. Lane (d. 1876), An Arabic-English Lexicon. English, synthesising the classical dictionaries.

    حَازَهُ

    1. حَازَهُ, (S, A, Msb,) aor. يَحُوزُهُ, (Msb,) inf. n. حَوْزٌ and حِيَازَةٌ; (S, A, Msb, K;) as also حَازَهُ, [aor. يَحِيزُهُ,] inf. n. حَيْزٌ; (Msb;) He drew, collected, or gathered, it together; (S, A, Msb, K;) and so احتازهُ, (TA,) inf. n. اِحْتِيَازٌ; (K;) and حوّزهُ, inf. n. تَحْوِيزٌ: (TA:) he drew, collected, or gathered, it together (namely, property or wealth &c., TA) to himself; (S, A, Msb;) as also احتازهُ, (S,) and لِنَفْسِهِ احتازهُ, (A, TA,) and حَازَهُ إِلَيْهِ, and اليه احتازهُ. (TA.) You say, عَلَيْكَ بِحِيَازَةِ المَالِ Take thou to the collecting of wealth. (A, TA.) حَازَهُ, aor. يَحُوزُهُ, (TA,) inf. n. حَوْزٌ, (K, TA,) He had, held, or possessed, it; had it, or held it, in his possession; had, took, got, obtained, or acquired, possession, or occupation, of it; (AA, K, * TA; [المَلِكُ, given as an explanation of the inf. n. in the CK, is a mistake for المِلْكُ;]) he took, or received, it; he had it, or took it, to, or for, himself. (AA, TA.) [See حَوْزَةٌ, below. Hence, It comprehended, comprised, or embraced, it.] حَازَ الأَرْضَ, inf. n. حَوْزٌ, He took for himself the land, and marked out its boundaries, and had an exclusive right to it. (TA: but only the inf. n. is there mentioned.) حَازَ, aor. يَحُوزُ, also signifies [He or] it overcame, conquered, or mastered, [a thing,] as in an instance in art. حز, voce حَزَّازٌ: (Sh, K:) [as also حَاذَ.] Also, (A, TA,) inf. n. حَوْزٌ, (K,) (tropical:) He compressed a woman: (A, * K, * TA:) [as though he mastered her.] حَازَ الحِمَارُ أُتُنَهُ The he-ass gained the mastery over his she-asses, and collected them together; as also حَاذَهَا. (L in art. حوذ.) حَازَ الإِبِلَ, aor. يَحُوزُهَا, (S, A, Msb,) inf. n. حَوْزٌ, (S, K,) He drove the camels gently; (S, Msb, K;) as also حَازَهَا, aor. يَحِيزُهَا, (S, Msb,) inf. n. حَيْزٌ; (S, TA;) and حوّزها. (TA.) Also He drove the camels vehemently; (K;) and so حازها, aor. يَحِيزُهَا, (TA in art. حيز,) inf. n. حَيْزٌ: (K in art. حيز:) thus bearing two contr. significations: (K:) [as also حَاذَهَا:] you say [also] أَحِزْهَا, [unless this be a mistranscription for حُزْهَا,] meaning, Drive thou them vehemently. (TA.) Also He drove the camels to water; (A;) and so حوّزها; (S, A;) [and حَاذَهَا:] or حوّزها, (As, S, K,) inf. n. تَحْوِيزٌ, (K,) signifies he drove them during the first night to water, (As, S, K,) it being distant from the pasture: (As, S:) because in that night they are driven gently. (TA.) [See also حَوْزٌ, below.] حَازَ الشَّىْءَ He removed the thing from its place; put it away; placed it at a distance. (Sh, TA.

    حوّزهُ

    2. حوّزهُ: see 1, first sentence: and حوّز: الإِبِلَ: see 1, in three places.

    أَحِزِ الإِبِلَ

    4. أَحِزِ الإِبِلَ: see 1.

    تحوّز

    5. تحوّز He, or it, writhed, or twisted, about, (K, TA,) and turned over and over; (TA;) as also تحيّز: (K:) or was restless, or unquiet, not remaining still, upon the ground. (Lth, TA.) You say, تحوّزت الحَيَّةُ, and تحيزّت, The serpent writhed, or twisted, about. (Both in the S; and the latter in the K in art. حيز.) And مَا لَكَ تَتَحَوَّزُ تَحَوُّزَ الحَيَّةِ, and تَحَيُّزَ الحَيَّةِ تَتَحَيَّزُ, Wherefore dost thou writhe about like the writhing about of the serpent? the latter verb, accord. to Sb, is of the measure تَفَيْعَلَ, from حُزْتُ الشَّىْءَ. (S.) He removed, withdrew, or retired to a distance, (A'Obeyd, S, K,) and drew back, (S,) عَنْهُ [or مِنْهُ] from him or it; (TA;) as also تحيّز; (A'Obeyd, S;) and انحاز. (A.) You say, دَخَلَ عَلَيْهِ فَمَا تَحَوَّزَ لَهُ عَنْ فِرَاشِهِ He went in to him and he did not move for him from his bed, or mattress. (TK.) And El-Katámee says, (S, TA,) describing an old woman of whom he sought hospitality, and who eluded him, (TA,) She (this old woman) retires and draws back from me for fear of my alighting at her abode as a guest [like as the viper turns away in fear of a beater]: or, as some relate the verse, تَحَوَّزُ. (S.) He tarried, or loitered: he was slow in rising; as also تحوّس: he desired to rise, and it was tedious to him to do so; as also تحيّز. (TA.) AA says, تَحَوَّزَ تَحَوُّزَ الحَيَّةِ, [as though meaning, He was slow in rising like as the rising of the serpent is slow: for he adds,] and it is slow in rising when it desires to rise. (S.)

    تحاوز الفَرِيقَانِ

    6. تحاوز الفَرِيقَانِ The two parties, or divisions, turned away, each from the other, (S, K,) in war or battle. (S.)

    إِنْحَوَزَ

    7: انحاز القَوْمُ The company of men left their appointed station, (S, K, TA,) and place of fighting, (TA,) and turned away to another place. (S, * K, * TA.) You say also, انحاز عَنْهُ He turned away from him: (S, K:) and انحاز إِلَيْهِ he turned to, or towards, him; and he joined himself to him. (Har pp. 122 and 326.) You say of friends, انحازو عَنِ العَدُوِّ, and حَاصُوا; [They turned away from the enemy;] and of enemies, اِنْهَزَمُوا, and وَلَّوْ مُدْبِرِينَ. (S, TA.) Or انحاز signifies He separated himself from others that he might be with those who were fighting. (Aboo-Is-hák, TA.) And انحاز الرَّحُلُ إِلَى القَوْمِ signifies the same as إِلَيْهِمْ تحيّز [The man turned, removed, withdrew, or retired, or he joined himself, to the company of men]. (Msb.) See 5, in two places. انحاز عَلَى الشَّىْءِ [for عن, in the TA, I have substituted على, as the former is apparently a mistranscription] He drew himself together, and fell to the thing; expl. by ضَمَّ بَعْضَهُ عَلَى بَعْضٍ وَأَكَبَّ عَلَيْهِ. (TA.)

    احتازهُ

    8. احتازهُ: see حَازَهُ, in four places, first sentence.

    تَحَيَّزَ

    Q. Q. 2. تَحَيَّزَ, [originally تَحَيْوزَ,] of the measure تَفَيْعَلَ, (Sb, S, TA,) [from حَيِّزٌ, originally حَيْوِزٌ,] He turned aside to a حَيِّز [or place, &c.]. (Mgh.) You say also تحيّز المَالُ [The property, or the camels or the like,] became drawn, collected, or gathered, together; or drew, collected, or gathered, themselves together; to a حَيِّز. (Msb.) See also 5, throughout; and see 7.

    حَوْزٌ

    حَوْزٌ inf. n. of 1 [q. v.]. فِى حَوْزِهِ: see حَوْزَةٌ. A place of which a man takes possession, (TA,) and around which a dam (مُسَنَّاةٌ) is made: (K, TA:) pl. أَحْوَازٌ. (TA.) حَوْزُ الدَّارِ: see حَيِّزٌ. لَيْلَةُ الحَوْزِ The first night during which camels repair towards the water (As, S, K) when it is distant from the pasture: (As, S:) 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. (TA.) One says to a man, when he holds back respecting an affair, دَعْنِى مِنْ حَوْزِكَ وَطَلَقِكَ (assumed tropical:) [Let me alone and cease from this and that discursion of thine]. (TA.) And one says also, طَوَّلَ عَلَيْنَا فُلَانٌ بِٱلْحَوْزِ وَٱلطَّلَقِ قَبْلَ القَرَبِ (assumed tropical:) [Such a one was prolix, or tedious, to us with this and that discursion before coming to the point]. (TA.) حَوْزٌ is also used as an epithet; though properly an inf. n.: you say, سَوْقٌ حَوْزٌ [A gentle driving: or a vehement driving]. (TA.)

    حَوْزَةٌ

    حَوْزَةٌ i. q. حَيِّزٌ, as pointed out in two places below. (S, Msb, &c.) [Hence,] (assumed tropical:) A thing that is in one's possession or occupation; a thing that is one's property: so in the saying of a certain woman, وَأَحْمِى حَوْزَةَ الغَائِبِ (assumed tropical:) And I guard from encroachment the property of the absent: meaning her فَرْج, which was the property of her husband by the marriage-contract: whence it appears that, if this saying be the only ground upon which Az has asserted that one of the significations of حَوْزَةٌ is the فَرْج of a woman, [as is also said in the K,] his assertion requires consideration; for a woman's فرج is her own when she has no husband; and when she is married, it is her husband's property. (L, TA.) You say also, صَارَفِى حَوْزَتِهِ, and فِى حَوْزِهِ, [and فى حَيِّزِهِ,] It became in his possession, or occupation. (L, TA.) And فُلَانٌ مَانِعٌ حَوْزَتَهُ (assumed tropical:) Such a one defends, or guards, from encroachment, or invasion, or attack, what is in his حَيِّز [or place; meaning, in his possession or occupation]. (TA.) In like manner, a poet says, He guarded from encroachment his tracts of pasture-land [so that they were left deserted]. (Fr, TA.) And it is said in a trad., فَحَمَى حَوْزَةً الإِسْلَامِ (tropical:) And he defended, or protected, or guarded, from encroachment, or invasion, or attack, the limits, [meaning, what the limits comprised, i. e., the territory,] and the tracts, or regions, of El-Islám [meaning, of the Muslims]. (TA.) حَوْزَةُ المُلْكِ signifies [in like manner] بَيْضَتُهُ [i. e. (assumed tropical:) The seat of regal power: or the heart, or principal part, of the kingdom]. (S, K.) (assumed tropical:) Nature; or natural disposition, temper, or other quality or property; (K, TA;) whether good or evil. (TA.)

    حَيِّزٌ

    حَيِّزٌ, (S, Mgh, Msb,) of the measure فَيْعِلٌ, (Mgh, Msb,) from الحَوْزُ, (S, * Mgh,) as signifying “ the drawing, collecting, or gathering, together, ” (Mgh,) originally حَيْوِزٌ, (TA,) and also contracted into حَيْزٌ, (S, Msb, TA,) like هَيِّنٌ and هَيْنٌ, and لَيِّنٌ and لَيْنٌ; (S, TA;) [The continent, or container, or receptacle, of anything; like بَيْضَةٌ; as also حَوْزَةٌ, q. v.:] any place in which a thing is: (Mgh:) in scholastic theology, the imaginary portion of space occupied by a thing having extent, as a body; or by a thing not having extent, as an indivisible atom: in philosophy, the inner surface of a container, which is contiguous [in every part] to the outer surface of the thing contained: and [hence,] الحَيِّزُ الطَبِيعِىُّ [the proper natural place of a thing;] that in which the nature of a thing requires it to be. (KT.) A quarter, tract, region, or place, considered relatively, or as part of a whole; or a part, or portion, of a place; syn. نَاحِيَةٌ; (S, Mgh, Msb;) as also حَوْزَةٌ: (S, Msb, K:) so the authors on practical law mean by حَيِّزٌ; such, for instance, as a room, or an apartment, of a house: (Mgh:) pl. أَحْيَازٌ, (S, Msb, TA,) which is extr., (TA,) being from the contracted form [حَيْزٌ]: (Msb:) by rule it should be أَحْوَازٌ, (Az, Msb, TA,) like أَمْوَاتٌ, pl. of مَيِّتٌ [and مَيْتٌ]: (Az, TA:) or by rule [if from the uncontracted form حَيِّزٌ] it should be حَيَائِزُ, with hemz, accord. to Sb; or حَيَاوِزُ, with و, accord. to Abu-l-Hasan. (TA.) حَيِّزُ الدَّارِ, (S, Msb, TA,) as also الدّارِ حَوْزُ, (TA,) signifies What is annexed to the house, (S, TA,) or appertains thereto, (Msb,) of the مَرَافِق (S, Msb, TA) and مَنَافِع (TA) and نَوَاحٍ; (Msb;) [i. e., of the conveniences thereof, such as the privy and the kitchen and the like, and other parts or apartments;] such are termed collectively أَحْيَازُ الدَّارِ; (Msb;) and each part or apartment (نَاحِيَة), by itself, is termed حَيِّزٌ. (TA.) [Hence the saying,] أَنَا فِى حَيِّزِهِ وَكَنَفِهِ (tropical:) [I am in his quarter and protection]. (A, TA.) [And hence also the saying,] فِى حَيِّزِ التَّوَاتِرُ (tropical:) In the manner, and place, of [that kind of transmission which is termed] التواتر [which is “ transmission by such a number of persons as cannot be supposed to have agreed to a falsehood: ” as explained in the Mz, 3rd نوع]. (Mgh.) And صَارَ فِى حَيِّزِهِ: see حَوْزَةٌ. [And عَلَى حَيِّزِهِ By himself or itself.]

    الإِثْمُ حَوَّازُ القُلُوبِ

    الإِثْمُ حَوَّازُ القُلُوبِ: see حَزَّازُ, in art. حز.

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The same three letters in all six orders. Choose one.

ح و ز

الحاء والواو والزاء أصل واحد وهو الجمع والتجمع

ḥ-w-z: one root, which is gathering and congregating.

Ibn Fāris ↗Lisān ↗Lane ↗al-Khalīl: used ↗Quran ×1

an entry in Ibn Fārislater sources onlyin none of them

Do these six share one core meaning?

About thisal-Khalīl, Ibn Jinnī, Ibn Fāris; the counts across the dictionary

al-Khalīl (d. c. 170/786), Kitāb al-ʿAyn, as transmitted by al-Layth: a two-letter word “turns in two ways”, a three-letter word “in six ways” (masdūsa), four letters in 24, five in 120; “its used forms are written down and its unused ones dropped” (line 975 ↗). The dictionary is built on this: each chapter takes a set of letters and names which orders are used (mustaʿmal) and which unused (muhmal). The ring shows that verdict, from the chapter heading as edited (documented in the text; how much of the book is al-Khalīl's own is disputed).

A reported total. al-Suyūṭī transmits, from Ḥamza al-Iṣfahānī, that al-Khalīl put the possible forms, used and unused, of two to five letters at 12,305,412 (al-Muzhir, line 1347 ↗). It is reported, not found in the ʿAyn. It equals exactly the arrangements of 2 to 5 different letters out of 28 (756 + 19,656 + 491,400 + 11,793,600); the breakdown printed beside it is corrupt, and al-Zubaydī's count, given next, differs (6,659,400).

Ibn Jinnī (d. 392/1002), al-Khaṣāʾiṣ, names the greater derivation (al-ishtiqāq al-akbar): bind a three-letter root and its six orders to one meaning, and bring stray members back “by the subtlety of the craft and interpretation” (line 7536 ↗). He says himself that it does not hold for every root (line 167 ↗; line 7603 ↗).

Ibn Fāris (d. 395/1004) gives each root its own aṣl and treats a rearranged word as maqlūb, “turned round”, and so not a root of its own: “j-b-dh is not a root, because it is a single word, turned round” (Maqāyīs, line 6147 ↗). The ring sets his aṣl for each order side by side; whether they meet is the question.

Neighbours on the ring differ by one swap of two letters.

The critique. A source quoted by al-Suyūṭī calls the greater derivation Ibn Jinnī's innovation, “not relied on in the language” (al-Muzhir, line 6159 ↗).

The other axis. The root's letters also go into patterns that keep their order and change the frame: the patterns (awzān) and the verb Forms I–X.

Across Ibn Fāris's dictionary. Of the 2,300 possible sets of three different sound letters (no hamza, w or y), 1,021 have at least one order as an entry. How many of their six orders are entries:

Ibn Fāris, entries found (1,021 letter-sets)
  1. 1 of 6319
  2. 2 of 6218
  3. 3 of 6164
  4. 4 of 6155
  5. 5 of 6107
  6. 6 of 658
al-Khalīl, orders his headings call used (746 letter-sets)
  1. 1 of 6148
  2. 2 of 6108
  3. 3 of 6157
  4. 4 of 6179
  5. 5 of 6111
  6. 6 of 643

Of the orders al-Khalīl calls used, 2,097 are entries in Ibn Fāris and 267 are not; 17 that he calls unused are entries in Ibn Fāris.

Our computation from the OpenITI texts; heading detection can miss entries

Attested here means found in our digital texts (Ibn Fāris, Lisān al-ʿArab, Lane, the Quranic Arabic Corpus), with w and y kept apart and hamza spellings merged; it is our data, not a classical verdict. English beside the Arabic is AI translation. Sources and grades: docs/research/root-permutations.md.

How each letter is made, in brief, from Sībawayh's and Ibn Jinnī's own sentences (linked); their words are under Reference.

Sharing two of its three letters (computed; kinship of form, not of meaning)

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How it is madeSībawayh and Ibn Jinnī · phonetics

English throughout: AI translation of the Arabic

ح

ومن أوسط الحلق مخرج العين والحاء

From the middle of the throat is the place of the ʿayn and the ḥāʾ. Sībawayh, lines 26548–26549 ↗

ومن وسط الحلق مخرج العين والحاء

From the middle of the throat is the place of the ʿayn and the ḥāʾ. Ibn Jinnī, line 970 ↗

و

ومما بين الشفتين مخرج الباء، والميم، والواو

From between the two lips is the place of the bāʾ, the mīm and the wāw. Sībawayh, line 26563 ↗

ومما بين الشفتين مخرج الباء والميم والواو

From between the two lips is the place of the bāʾ, the mīm and the wāw. Ibn Jinnī, line 986 ↗

ز

ومما بين طرف اللسان وفويق الثنايا مخرج الزاي، والسين، والصاد

From between the tip of the tongue and just above the front teeth is the place of the zāy, the sīn and the ṣād. Sībawayh, line 26560 ↗

ومما بين الثنايا وطرف اللسان، مخرج الصاد والزاي والسين

From between the front teeth and the tip of the tongue is the place of the ṣād, the zāy and the sīn. Ibn Jinnī, line 983 ↗

Sībawayh, al-Kitāb (ed. Hārūn) and Ibn Jinnī, Sirr ṣināʿat al-iʿrāb; OpenITI digital texts (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0). Full credits on each letter's page.

In the Breath of the All-MercifulIbn ʿArabī · metaphysics

English throughout: AI translation of the Arabic

ح

Level of existence: الجوهر الهبابي · the dust-like substance (spelled الهبابي in the text)

Divine Name: الآخر · al-Ākhir, the Last

Lunar mansion: الدبران · al-Dabarān

Futūḥāt ch. 198, line 62076

Spheres of its simples (ch. 2): 10 line 2573 ↗

و

Level of existence: تعيين الرتب والمقامات والمنازل · the determination of ranks, stations and waystations

Divine Name: رفيع الدرجات · Rafīʿ al-Darajāt, Exalted in Degrees

Lunar mansion: الرشا · al-Rashāʾ

Futūḥāt ch. 198, line 62121

Spheres of its simples (ch. 2): 10 line 2573 ↗

المرتبة العشرية فحروفها حارة يابسة

The tenfold rank: its letters are hot and dry.

Ibn ʿArabī, al-Futūḥāt al-Makkiyya, line 2582

ز

Level of existence: ما يظهر في ركن الهواء · what appears in the pillar (element) of air

Divine Name: الحي · the Living (al-Ḥayy)

Lunar mansion: الشولة · al-Shawla

Futūḥāt ch. 198, line 64951

Spheres of its simples (ch. 2): 7 line 2570 ↗

منها دون الألف فطبعها الحرارة واليبوسة

[Zāy and lām] of it, excluding alif: their nature is heat and dryness.

Ibn ʿArabī, al-Futūḥāt al-Makkiyya, line 2577
Meaning by vowelal-Dabbāgh · a visionary claim about a primordial “Syriac”, not historical Syriac

English throughout: AI translation of the Arabic

ح

فهي تدل على الإحاطة والشمول للجميع.

It denotes encompassing and inclusion of everything.

فهي العدد الكثير الخارج عن بني آدم كالنجوم.

It is a great number external to the children of Adam, such as the stars.

فهي العدد الداخل في الذات أو للذات عليه ولاية كملكية العبيد والدنانير والدراهم وغير ذلك.

It is a number contained within the self, or over which the self has authority, such as ownership of slaves, dinars, dirhams and the like.

al-Dabbāgh (d. 1132/1719), al-Ibrīz, ch. 2 §15, compiled by al-Lamaṭī

و

فهي الأشياء المشتبكة في الإنسان مثل العروق والأصابع وما أشبه ذلك.

It is the intertwined things in the human being, such as veins, fingers and the like.

فهي الأشياء المباينة لبني آدم مثل الأفلاك والجبال وما أشبه ذلك

It is things distinct from the children of Adam, such as the celestial spheres, mountains and the like.

فهي الأشياء المشتبكة المستقذرة أو المبغوضة كالأمعاء ونحوها.

It is intertwined things that are filthy or detested, such as the intestines and the like.

al-Dabbāgh (d. 1132/1719), al-Ibrīz, ch. 2 §15, compiled by al-Lamaṭī

ز

فهي اسم للشيء الذي إذا دخل على الشيء ضره، وقال مرة: اسم للشيء وما يتحرز منه.

It is a name for the thing that harms another thing when it enters upon it. On one occasion he said: a name for the thing and what one guards against.

فهي إشارة إلى القبيح الذي فيه ضرر كالكبائر.

It is an indication of the ugly thing that contains harm, such as the major sins.

فهي إشارة إلى القبيح الذي لا ضرر فيه كالصغائر والشبهات والنجاسة.

It is an indication of the ugly thing that contains no harm, such as minor sins, doubtful matters and ritual impurity.

al-Dabbāgh (d. 1132/1719), al-Ibrīz, ch. 2 §15, compiled by al-Lamaṭī
In the sister scriptsHebrew ח ו זSyriac ܚ ܘ ܙ
Arabicح و ز
Hebrewח ו ז
Syriacܚ ܘ ܙ
Ancient South Arabian (musnad)𐩢 𐩥 𐩸
Phoenician𐤇 𐤅 𐤆

Letter for letter, by the regular sound correspondences of the Semitic languages (Arabic keeps several sounds the others merged). This shows how the root would be spelled; whether a related word exists is a separate question, answered in the Semitic lens. Where an Arabic sibilant (s, sh) continues two older sounds, both spellings are shown.

  • Classical lexiconAl-Khalīl anchors the root in ḥayyiz al-dār, the appurtenances and benefits attached to a house, and in the military sense of taḥayyuz (troops joining together) and inḥiyāz (abandoning one's position and shifting elsewhere);well attested

    The lexicographers in chronological order, from al-Khalīl to Lane.

    Al-Khalīl anchors the root in ḥayyiz al-dār, the appurtenances and benefits attached to a house, and in the military sense of taḥayyuz (troops joining together) and inḥiyāz (abandoning one's position and shifting elsewhere); he notes the irregular plural aḥyāz rather than the expected aḥwāz, kept distinct to avoid confusion with another word. Al-Jawharī generalizes to al-ḥawz as simply al-jamʿ, 'gathering', and records a separate sense, the gentle driving of camels to water, plus the epithet al-aḥwazī, a skillful, light driver. Ibn Fāris's maqāyīs confirms the single underlying sense as gathering and territory (ḥawza, a guarded precinct one gathers and protects), and adds the image of the snake's taḥawwuz, its coiling. Al-Rāghib, glossing Qurʾān 8:16, defines mutaḥayyizan as 'becoming part of a ḥayyiz', a gathered mass, and flags the root's true radical as wāw. Ibn Manẓūr's Lisān synthesizes all these strands and adds a pastoral interjection (ḥayzi ḥayzi) used in driving goats; Lane confirms ḥāzahu as 'he drew, collected, or gathered it together', distinguishing this transitive sense from the reflexive taḥayyuz.

    Draws on: al-ʿAyn · al-Ṣiḥāḥ · Maqāyīs · Mufradāt · Lisān · Lane

    • Lisān al-ʿArab, ḥ-w-z
    • Lane's Lexicon, ḥ-w-z
  • Letters & soundAl-Dabbāgh assigns ḥāʾ the sense of encompassing and including everything, wāw the sense of intertwined bodily connectors (veins, fingers), and zāy the sense of a thing that harms when it enters, or a thing to be guarded against.speculative

    What the theorists of sound symbolism would say of these letters. Speculative by nature.

    Al-Dabbāgh assigns ḥāʾ the sense of encompassing and including everything, wāw the sense of intertwined bodily connectors (veins, fingers), and zāy the sense of a thing that harms when it enters, or a thing to be guarded against. Read together these fit the lexical cluster remarkably well: ḥawz as an encompassing gathering (ḥāʾ), wāw as the binding-together of what is gathered, and zāy as the guarded, defended precinct (ḥawza, what one 'hemis against harm'). The akbarī table's associations (ḥāʾ with the dust-like substance, wāw with the fixing of ranks and stations, zāy with what appears in the element of air) are less obviously connected to this root's sense. This kind of letter-symbolism is treated by mainstream historical linguistics as at most suggestive folk-etymology, not evidence of origin.

    Draws on: al-Dabbāgh letter-meanings · Akbarian letter table (akbari198)

    • Ibn ʿArabī, letter correspondences (akbari198)
  • Root structureOf the six possible orderings of ḥ-w-z, only ḥwz itself (gathering) and its reverse zwḥ (recession, moving away) are attested as roots.uncertain

    The two-letter nucleus (Ibn Fāris's own chapters) and the permutations of the letters (Ibn Jinnī).

    Of the six possible orderings of ḥ-w-z, only ḥwz itself (gathering) and its reverse zwḥ (recession, moving away) are attested as roots. Ibn Jinnī's theory of the greater derivation (al-ishtiqāq al-akbar) looks for kinship of sense across such permuted triads; here the pairing is suggestive rather than demonstrated, since ḥwz denotes drawing-together and zwḥ denotes drawing-away, an antithetical rather than convergent relation. No nucleus siblings are given in the two-letter chapter for ḥ-w-z. The juxtaposition should be read as an observation about the permutation space, not an established etymological claim.

    Draws on: Ibn Fāris nucleus · permutation table

    • Ibn Jinnī, al-Khaṣāʾiṣ, bāb al-ishtiqāq al-akbar (link not verified)
  • Semitic kin & loanwordsNo confident Semitic cognate for ḥwz in the sense 'gather, enclose' is attested in Hebrew, Aramaic/Syriac, Akkadian, Geʿez, or Old South Arabian;plausible

    Cognates in the sister languages, and whether the word was borrowed.

    No confident Semitic cognate for ḥwz in the sense 'gather, enclose' is attested in Hebrew, Aramaic/Syriac, Akkadian, Geʿez, or Old South Arabian; the root does not appear to be a loanword. Any resemblance to unrelated Hebrew roots built on ḥ-z (e.g. ḥāzāh, 'to see') is coincidental, sharing no semantic ground.

    Draws on: comparative Semitic lexica

  • Quranic exegesisAt Qurʾān 8:16, the verse forbids turning one's back to the enemy in battle except for two cases: tactical repositioning (mutaḥarrifan li-qitāl) or 'becoming part of a group' (mutaḥayyizan ilā fiʾa).well attested

    How the classical exegetes read the word in the Quran.

    At Qurʾān 8:16, the verse forbids turning one's back to the enemy in battle except for two cases: tactical repositioning (mutaḥarrifan li-qitāl) or 'becoming part of a group' (mutaḥayyizan ilā fiʾa). Al-Ṭabarī glosses taḥayyuz as regrouping with another Muslim contingent to renew the fight, not flight. Al-Zamakhsharī and al-Rāzī elaborate the legal distinction between forbidden firār (desertion, one of the mūbiqāt) and permitted taḥayyuz, a repositioning that serves the collective military gathering rather than individual escape. Al-Rāghib's definition, 'becoming part of a ḥayyiz', underlies this reading: the soldier does not leave the fight but joins another gathered body within it.

    Draws on: Ṭabarī · Zamakhsharī · Rāzī · Rāghib

  • Akbarian readingIn Faṣṣ Ādam, the human configuration (al-nashʾa al-insāniyya) is said to have 'gathered' (ḥāzat) all the names present in the divine forms, thereby attaining the rank of comprehensiveness (iḥāṭa) and gathering (jamʿ) through this existence, by which the proof (ḥujja) for God is established.plausible

    The word in Ibn ʿArabī's text and terminology.

    In Faṣṣ Ādam, the human configuration (al-nashʾa al-insāniyya) is said to have 'gathered' (ḥāzat) all the names present in the divine forms, thereby attaining the rank of comprehensiveness (iḥāṭa) and gathering (jamʿ) through this existence, by which the proof (ḥujja) for God is established. Here ḥāzat carries the full classical sense of drawing-together into a single encompassing whole: Adam/Insān as the ḥayyiz in which the totality of divine names is collected. This use directly continues the lexicographers' core sense of gathering, applied to the ontological role of the human being as locus of comprehensive gathering (al-jamʿiyya).

    Draws on: Faṣṣ Ādam excerpt

    • Ibn ʿArabī, Fuṣūṣ al-Ḥikam, Faṣṣ Ādam
Neighbouring rootsThe roots that share letters with this one, as a map you can open out