حشو

حَشًا ذ The contents of the belly: (K:) or a bowel, or an intestine, into which the food passes from the stomach; syn. مِعًى: (Msb:) pl. أَحْشَاآءٌ: (Msb, K:) and ↓ حُشْوَةٌ and ↓ حِشْوَةٌ signify the bowels, or intestines; [like أَحْشَاآءٌ;] syn. أَمْعَاآءٌ: (Msb:) or these are called البَطْنِ ↓ حُشْوَةُ and ↓ حِشْوَتُهُ: (S, TA:) or حشوة signifies all that is in the belly except the fat; so accord. to Az and Esh-Sháfi'ee: or, accord. to As, the place of the food, comprising the أَحْشَاآء and the أَقْصَاب: (TA:) [see also مَحْشًى:] الحَشَا is the name of all the places of the food: (Zj in his “Khalk el-Insán:”) [see also, for other meanings, its dial. var. حَشًى, in art. حشى:] the word belongs to this art. and to art. حشى; the dual being حَشَوَانِ and حَشَيَانِ. (TA.) -A2- A side, (Msb, TA,) region, quarter, or tract. (Msb.) You say, أَنَا فِى حَشَا فُلَانٍ I am in the quarter and protection of such a one: pl. as above. (Har p. 61.) [See, again, حَشًى, in art. حشى.]