حجو

حَجًا حج حجا or حَجًى A side, region, quarter, or tract : (S, Msb, K, TA:) and an extremity : (TA:) pl. أَحَجَاآءٌ. (S, Msb.) ― -b2- A refuge; a place to which one has recourse for refuge, or protection; as also ↓ مَحْجًى (Lh, TA) and مَحْجَأٌ. (Lh, K in art. حجأ.) ― -b3- Elevated ground. (TA.) ― -b4- A place of bending or turning of a valley. (TA.) ― -b5- Anything by which one is veiled, concealed, or protected; (Mgh, Msb, TA;) as also ↓ حِجًا. (Mgh, TA.) [Hence applied to A parapet on the top of a house; as is indicated in the Mgh and TA.] -A2- Bubbles upon water, arising from the drops of rain : pl. [or rather coll. gen. n.] of ↓ حَجَاةٌ: (S, K: [in the CK, erroneously, حِجاة:]) the latter word, which is like حَصَاةٌ, is explained by Az as signifying a bubble that rises upon water, like a flask; and as having for its pl. حَجَوَاتٌ: and the same word (حجاة) signifies also a pool of water, itself, such as is left by a torrent. (TA.) -A3- See also حَجِىٌّ. -A4- حَجَا is also used, by poetic license, for حَجَاج, q. v. (TA in art. حج.)