impasse, dilemma, predicament

, aor. ; (K;) and أَزِقَ, aor. ; (IDrd, K;) inf. n. (of the former, TA) أَزْقٌ, (S, O, K,) and (of the latter, TA) أَزَقٌ, (IDrd, K,) or the latter is used by poetic licence for the former; (As, Sgh;) He, or it, (said of a man, MF, or of a man's bosom or mind, K,) became strait, or straitened; (IDrd, S,* O,* K, MF;) أَزْقٌ being thus syn. with أَزْلٌ: (S, O:) or it (a man's bosom or mind) became straitened in war or fight; (K;) or he (a man) became straitened in his bosom or mind, in war or fight: (TA:) as also ↓ تأزّق, with respect to both these significations; (K;) or this signifies it (a man's bosom or mind) became strait, or straitened; like تأزّل; (Fr, S;) and ↓ تآزق signifies the same as تأزّق. (Z, in Golius.) [See also 10.] -A2- أَزَقَهُ, inf. n. أَزْقٌ, He straitened him: the verb being trans. and intrans. (MF.)

and 6: see 1.

The place became strait to such a one, (K, TA,) so that he was unable to go forth [into it, to war or fight]. (TA.)

A place of straitness, or a strait place, (S, K, TA,) in which people fight. (TA.) And hence, A place of war or fight. (S.) And مَأْزِقُ العَيْشِ The place of straitness of life, or living. (Lh.) Pl. مَآزِقُ. (TA.)