ḥazz

incision

حَزّ

Word

Noun

Root

ح ز ز

Forms

Plural
حُزُوز

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وأشبههم بالفيل الهائج الذي لا يلتفت إلى شيءٍ: فإن حز به أمر تهاون به، وإن أضاع الأمور حمل ذلك على قرنائه.

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Arabic–English, 1863–93 · 12 entries
  • حَزَّهُ Form I He cut it
    , (S, A, Msb,) aor. , inf. n. حَزٌّ, (S, Msb, K, *) He cut it; (S, A, K;) namely, his, or its, head; (A;) as also ↓ احتزّهُ: (S, A, K:) or he cut it (namely, a thing, or flesh-meat,) without separating; made an incision in it: or he cut it with labour: (TA:) and he notched it; or made a notch in it; namely, a piece of wood. (S, Msb, TA.) It is said in a prov., حَزَّتْ حَازَّةٌ مِنْ كُوعِهَا [A woman cutting cut a part of the skin of the extremity of the bone of her fore arm next the thumb: nearly the same as another prov. حَلَأَتْ حَالِيأَةٌ عَنْ كُوعِهَا]: alluding to a people's being occupied by their own affair so as to be diverted thereby from attending to other things. (AZ, K.) You say also, حَزَّ فِى رَأْسِ القَوْسِ He made a notch in the head of the bow. (A.) ― -b2- [Hence the saying,] الإِثْمُ مَا حَزَّ فِى قَلْبِكَ (tropical:) [Sin is that which makes an impression upon thy heart, causing thee to waver lest it be an act of disobedience because of thy not being easy respecting it]. (A. [See حَزَّازٌ, below; and see also حَكَّ, and حَاكَ.]) Of anything making an impression in, or upon, the bosom, and causing one to waver or scruple, you say حَزَّ. (S.)
  • حَزَّ3َ Form II He cut it, or notched it, much, or in many places; he made notches in it
    [حزّزهُ, inf. n. تَحْزِيزٌ, He cut it, or notched it, much, or in many places; he made notches in it; he made it serrated; he jagged it. You say,] حزّز أَسْنَانَهُ, (S, K,) inf. n. تَحْزِيزٌ, (TA,) He made his teeth serrated, and sharpened their extremities, to make them like those of a young person. (S, K, TA.) [See also تَحْزِيزٌ, below.]
  • تحزّز Form V It was cut much, or in many places, or into many pieces
    It was cut much, or in many places, or into many pieces: (S, K:) [it was notched much, or in many places; was made serrated; was jagged.]
  • احتزّهُ Form VIII Open entry
    : see 1.
  • حَزٌّ A notch, or an incision
    A notch, or an incision, (S, A, Msb, K,) in a thing; (S, K;) as, [for instance,] in a piece of wood, and a tooth-stick (سِوَاك), and a bone, (TA,) and a bow: (A, TA:) and in like manner ↓ مَحَزٌّ, the notch of a bow, into which the ring of the string falls: (A and K, voce كُظْرٌ:) [or the former is a coll. gen. n.:] n. un. ↓ حَزَّةٌ; (S, TA;) [for which, in the S and L and K, voce طَرِيدَةٌ, we find ↓ حُزَّةٌ, perhaps a dial. var.] You say, رَدَّ الوَتَرَ حَزِّهَا He put back the bow-string to its notch (A, TA) in the head of the bow. (TA.) For the explanation of حَزُّ الكَرَاكِر, see كِرْكِرَةٌ. -A2- A time; a particular time; [a nick of time:] (S, K:) and ↓ حَزَّةٌ signifies the same; and also a particular state or condition. (A, TA.) You say, مَجِىْءِ فُلَانٍ ↓ هٰذِهِ حَزَّةُ [This is the time of the coming of such a one]. (A.) And كَيْفَ جِيأْتَ ↓ فِى هٰذِهِ الحَزَّةِ [How hast thou come at this time, or in this state?]. (A.) And ↓ لَقِيتُهُ عَلَى حَزَّةٍ مُنْكَرِةٍ [I met him at an evil time, or in an evil condition]. (A.)
  • حَزَّةٌ Open entry
    : see حَزٌّ in five places.
  • حُزَّةٌ A piece
    : see حَزٌّ. -A2- Also A piece of flesh-meat cut off lengthwise: (S, K:) or only of liver: (K, TA:) not of a camel's hump, nor of flesh, or other thing: (TA:) or it signifies also a piece cut off of anything, such as a melon &c.: used in this sense by the people of Syria: (TA:) pl. حُزَزٌ. (Msb.) ― -b2- (tropical:) The neck: (S, Msb, K:) accord. to some: (Msb:) so termed metaphorically. (S.) So in a trad., أَخَذَ بِحُزَّتِهِ He took hold of his neck. (S, TA.) -A3- حُزَّةُ السَّرَاوِيلِ i. q. حُجْزَتُهُ: (IAar, Az, S, Msb, K:) but disallowed by As. (TA.)
  • حَزَارٌ Scurf
    Scurf of the head: ↓ n. un. with ة [signifying a particle, or flake, thereof]. (S, K.)
  • حَزِيزٌ Rugged ground
    Rugged ground: (IDrd:) or a rugged and extended place: (S, K:) or a place abounding with rugged stones like knives: or hard ground in a tract abounding with pebbles: (TA:) or rugged and hard ground with a slight elevation: (ISh:) or depressed ground: (TA:) pl. [of pauc.] أَحِزَّةٌ and [of mult.] حِزَّانٌ (S, K) and حُزَّانٌ and حُزُزٌ, (K, TA,) with two dammehs, (TA,) or حُزَزٌ. (CK.)
  • حَزَازَةٌ Open entry
    : see حَزَازٌ: -A2- and see also حَزَّازٌ.
  • حَزَّازٌ that becomes acid in the stomach
    Food that becomes acid in the stomach, (K, TA,) by reason of its badness, and so [as it were] cuts (يَحُزُّ) into the heart. (TA.) Hence the saying, أَنْتَ أَثْقَلُ مِنَ الحَزَّازِ [Thou art heavier, or more difficult to be born, than the food that becomes acid in the stomach, &c.]. (A Heyth, on the authority of Abu-l-Hasan El-Aarábee.) ― -b2- [And hence, app.,] Anything that makes an impression in, or upon, the heart, or bosom, causing one to waver or scruple; lit., that cuts into the heart, and scrapes in the bosom; expl. by مَا حَزَّ فِى القَلْبِ, (A 'Obeyd, S, K,) and حَكَّ فِى الصَّدْرِ; (K;) as also ↓ حُزَّازٌ (K) [and ↓ حَازَّةٌ, as will be seen below]: and pain in the heart, arising from wrath &c.; as also ↓ حُزَّازٌ, (A 'Obeyd, S,) and ↓ حَزَازَةٌ; (A 'Obeyd, S, K;) of which last the pl. is حَزَازَاتٌ. (A 'Obeyd, S.) [See also حَزْحَزَةٌ.] It is said in a trad., الإِثْمُ حَوَازُّ القُلُوبِ, (S, Mgh, and K * in art. حوز,) i. e., Sin is those things that make an impression upon hearts, (Lth, Mgh, MS, and K ubi suprà,) like as cutting, or notching, makes an impression upon a thing, (TA,) and that cause one to suspect that they may be acts of disobedience, by reason of uneasiness respecting them, (Mgh,) or to waver respecting them, lest they should be so, for that reason, (K,) or to be uneasy in heart respecting them: (MS:) حوازّ being pl. of ↓ حَازَّةٌ, (Mgh, K,) like as دَوَابُّ is pl. of دَابَّةٌ: (Mgh:) Sh. reads حُوَّازُ القُلُوبِ, which he explains as meaning, “what overcomes hearts, (مَا يَحُوزُهَا, i. e., يَغْلِبُ عَلَيْهَا,) so that they commit that which is not incumbent:” (Mgh, and K * and TA ubi suprà:) but the former reading is the more common: (Mgh, TA:) and some read حَزَّاز; and some حَرَّار. (TA in art. حوز.) [See also فَصٌّ.] ― -b3- حَزَّازُ الحَجَرِ and حَزَّازُ الصَّخْرِ: See بَهَقُ الحَجَرِ in art. بَهق.
  • حُزَّازٌ Open entry
    : see حَزَّازٌ, in two places.

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