be committed, maintain, preserve

It necessarily, or inseparably, belonged, or pertained, or it clave, or adhered, to him, or it; as also لَزِمَ لَهُ: it (disgrace, &c.) attached to him. ― -b2- لَزِمَهُ أَمْرُ فُلَانٍ The management of the affair, or affairs, of such a one was, or became, incumbent, or obligatory, upon him. ― -b3- لَزِمَ شَيْيأًا He kept close, clave, clave fast, clung, or held fast, to anything. (S, K, &c.) And hence, He preserved a thing: see قَنِىَ. ― -b4- See 3. ― -b5- لَزمَ الغَرِيمَ, and لَزِمَ بِهِ, and ↓ لَازَمَهُ, He adhered, kept, clave, clung, or held fast, to the debtor. (Msb.) ― -b6- لَزِمَ بَيْتَهُ He kept, or clave, to his house or tent; did not quit it; was not found elsewhere. (Kull, p. 318.) ― -b7- لَزِمَهُ المَالُ The [paying of the] money &c. behoved him, lay on him, was incumbent on him, or obligatory on him. (Msb.)

He kept, confined himself, clave, clung, or held fast, to him, or it: as also ↓ لَزِمَهُ: he held on, or continued, it. See 1.

signifies He necessitated him, or obliged him, to do, and to pay, &c.; or to suffer, or endure, a thing: and hence, said of God, He decreed; or appointed, or ordained, to him a thing. And He made him to cleave to a thing; and he made a thing to cleave to him. See جَدَعَ. ― -b2- أُلْزِمَ شَيْيأًا لَا يُفَارِقُهُ [He was made to cleave to a thing, not quitting it]. (K.) ― -b3- أَلْزَمَهُ اللّٰهُ الشَّرَّ May God make evil to cleave to him: or, to attend him constantly: or decree evil to him. ― -b4- أَلْزَمَنَاهُ طَايأِرَهُ فِى عُنُقِهِ, (Kur xvii. 14,) We have decreed to him his happiness or his misery, foreseeing that he would be obedient, or disobedient: (AM, in TA, art. طير:) or we have made his works and what is decreed to him to cleave to him like the طَوْق upon his neck. (Bd.) ― -b5- أَلْزَمَهُ البَيِّنَةَ He compelled him, or constrained him, to accept, or admit, the evidence, or proof. (Jel xi. 30.) ― -b6- أَلْزَمَهُ المَالَ He obliged him to pay the money &c. أَلْزَمَهُ العَمَلَ He obliged him to do the deed. (Msb.) ― -b7- أَلْزَمْتُهُ الدَّنْبَ, and الحَقَّ: see زَكَّ. ― -b8- أَلْزِمْ نَعْلَيْكَ قَدَمَيْكَ [Keep thou thy sandals upon thy feet]. (From a trad. in the Jámi' es- Sagheer.)

He took upon himself an affair. (KL.) You say, اِلْتَزَمَهُ He took it upon himself; charged himself with it; obliged himself to do it; became, or made himself, answerable for it by an inseparable obligation: see بَآءَ. ― -b2- اِلْتَزَمْتُ بَالمَالِ i. q. أَلْزَمْتُ بِهِ نَفْسِى, and تَكَفَّلْتُ بَهَ, accord. to IAmb, or تَحَمَّلْتُ بِهِ, accord. to AZ; (Msb in art. كفل;) I made myself answerable, responsible or accountable, by an inseparable obligation, for the property: see ضَمِنَ. ― -b3- اِلْتَزَمَ المَالَ, and العَمَلَ, He obliged himself, or took upon himself the obligation, to pay the money &c., and to do the deed. (Msb.) ― -b4- اِلْتَزَمَهُ He kept, or restricted himself, to it; i. e. an action, or usage, &c. ― -b5- And It was, or became, necessary for him, or obligatory upon him, to do it, or pay it, &c.; or to suffer it, or endure it. ― -b6- دَلَفَ لِٱلْتِزَامِى He hastened to take me by the hand and embrace me: see دَلَفَ. ― -b7- اِلْتِزَامٌ i. q. لُزُومُ مَا لَا يَلْزَمُ: see below.

It necessarily required it or involved it.

One who keeps, cleaves, clings, or holds fast, much, or habitually, لِشَىْءٍ to a thing: see an ex. in the Ham, p. 238, line 21.

The imposing upon one's self what is not indispensable; or adhering to a mode of construction that is not necessarily to be followed: as in the following instance in the خُطْبَة of the Kámoos: وَبَلَغُوا مِنَ الْمَقَاصِدِ قَاصِيَتَهَا وَمَلَكُوا مِنَ المَحَاسِنِ نَاصِيَتَهَا.

Keeping, keeping close, cleaving, &c.; tenacious: and pertinacious. ― -b2- لَازِمٌ A thing inseparable from another thing: pl. لَوَازِمُ. (TA.) Such as cleaves fast; inseparable: as an epthet. ― -b3- إِسْمٌ لَازِمٌ: see جَمْعٌ, as signifying “ a plural. ” ― -b4- لَوَازِمُ Necessary, or inseparable, adjuncts, accompaniments, consequences, or results.

as syn. with أَقْنَى in the prov. خَلَاوأُكَ أَقْنَى لِحَيَايأِكَ means Most preservative: see that prov. in art. خلو, and see قَنِىَ الحَيَآءَ, and لَزِمَ شَيْيأًا.