Quranic root
حوز
ḥ · w · z
The root centers on gathering and congregation, and by extension on a gathered district, domain, or place.
Its lexical development extends from drawing things together or toward oneself to possession, bounded territory, spatial domain, and movement away from or toward a group.
- Maqāyīs · row 1472
- Lane · entry 16051
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Forms in the Quran
The forms this root actually takes in the Quran. Select one to jump to its senses and examples.
مُتَحَيِّز
mutaḥayyiz
- Part of speech
- Active participle
- Quran occurrences
- 1 occurrence
Selected examples are shown with the sense they illustrate — chosen to teach that sense, not the complete list of this form’s Quran occurrences.
One who turns aside from his present company to join another company.
In the Quranic construction مُتَحَيِّزًا إِلَى فِئَةٍ, the expression denotes separating from one group in order to make for another company of Muslims, particularly one engaged in fighting.
- Lane · entry 16063
Selected Quran examples
Quran 8:16word 9
“(to) join”
Occurrences in the Quran
Every place this root appears, in Quran order. The first few are shown here.
- 8:16مُتَحَيِّزًا(to) join
Broader Classical Arabic meanings
Recorded for this root in the Classical lexicons beyond its Quran usage. These are secondary to the Quran senses above.
Show 21 Classical meanings
حَازَ
To draw, collect, or gather something together, especially toward oneself.
Used of property, wealth, animals, or other things that are brought together or gathered to a person; it can also describe an animal gathering its herd.
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حَازَ
To possess, hold, receive, obtain, or acquire something; also to comprise or embrace it.
The verb may indicate having something in one's possession or taking it to or for oneself; it may also be used of something that contains or comprises another.
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حَازَ الأَرْضَ
To take land for oneself, mark its boundaries, and establish an exclusive right to it.
This is the territorial and boundary-marking construction of حازَ.
- Lane · entry 16051
حَازَ
To overcome, conquer, or master.
A distinct extension of the basic verb, used of gaining mastery over something or someone.
- Lane · entry 16051
حَازَ
To approach sexually or have sexual intercourse.
This is a figurative usage of the Form I verb; it is stated as a conventional construction rather than restricted here to the particular object used in the illustrative example.
- Lane · entry 16051
حَازَ الإِبِلَ
To drive or herd camels, whether gently or vehemently, including driving them toward water.
The lexical evidence records both gentle and vehement driving. In the specialized water-related usage, the camels are driven during the first night toward distant water, when the driving is gentle.
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- Lane · entry 16059
حَازَ الشَّيْءَ
To remove a thing from its place, put it away, or place it at a distance.
This is a distinct transitive usage of the Form I verb.
- Lane · entry 16051
تَحَوَّزَ
To writhe or twist about; to be restless and not remain still.
The usage is illustrated by the twisting movement of a serpent and by restless movement on the ground.
- Lane · entry 16054
تَحَوَّزَ
To withdraw, draw back, or retire to a distance from someone or something.
The verb may describe moving aside or back from another person or place.
- Lane · entry 16054
تَحَوَّزَ
To tarry or loiter, being slow to rise.
It can describe wanting to rise while finding the action tedious or delayed.
- Lane · entry 16054
تَحَاوَزَ الفَرِيقَانِ
For two parties or divisions to turn away from one another.
The construction is used of opposing parties turning away from each other in war or battle.
- Lane · entry 16055
اِنْحَازَ
To leave an appointed station or place of fighting, withdraw, or separate from a group.
The verb may describe a company abandoning its position and turning elsewhere, or a person separating from others.
- Lane · entry 16056
اِنْحَازَ إِلَى
To turn toward a person or group and join it.
It may denote separating from one group in order to be with another, especially another group engaged in fighting.
- Lane · entry 16056
اِنْحَازَ عَلَى
To draw oneself together and apply oneself closely to a thing.
This construction expresses gathering one's parts together and falling upon or concentrating on the object.
- Lane · entry 16056
تَحَيَّزَ
To turn aside to a place or defined area; of property or animals, to gather themselves together in a place.
The place or area is a حَيِّز, understood as a domain or spatial enclosure toward which something turns or gathers.
- Lane · entry 16058
حَوْزٌ
A place taken into possession and enclosed or bounded around, traditionally by a dam.
This nominal also functions as the verbal noun of حازَ, but the place sense is independently used for a possessed and bounded area.
- Lane · entry 16059
الحَوْزُ وَالطَّلَقُ
Discursive delay, rambling, or prolix discussion before coming to the point.
This is an idiomatic, figurative use associated with prolonging an issue through digression.
- Lane · entry 16059
حَوْزَةٌ
A possession, protected domain, territory, or set of limits; by extension, the central seat or principal part of a kingdom.
The word can denote what is in one's possession or occupation and what one guards from encroachment, including pasture tracts or the protected territory of a community.
- Lane · entry 16060
حَوْزَةٌ
Nature, disposition, temperament, or an inherent quality or property.
The quality may be good or evil.
- Lane · entry 16060
حَيِّزٌ
A place, spatial portion, quarter, region, or domain; also the space occupied by or containing a thing.
It can denote a room, apartment, or appurtenant part of a house. In technical usage it means the spatial portion occupied by an extended body or an indivisible atom, the inner surface of a container contiguous with what it contains, or a thing's proper natural place. In idioms it may mean one's quarter and protection, the manner or place of a process, or, in عَلَى حَيِّزِهِ, by himself or itself.
- Lane · entry 16061
مُسْتَحِيزَةٌ
A portion of land comprehended within defined limits.
The form is an adjective describing land enclosed or delimited as a distinct piece.
- Lane · entry 16064
Cautions
Points that affect how this root should be read.
The lexical evidence records both gentle and vehement senses for حَازَ الإِبِلَ; the contrast is preserved in the camel-driving entry.
A figurative anatomical interpretation reported for حَوْزَةٌ is explicitly questioned in the same lexical discussion and is not presented as an established sense.
Unassigned or ambiguous evidence
The reported interpretation of حَوْزَةٌ as a woman's private part is disputed by the lexical discussion itself, so it remains unassigned as an independent meaning.