حوز

حَوْزٌ حوز inf. n. of 1 [q. v.]. ― -b2- فِى حَوْزِهِ: see حَوْزَةٌ. -A2- A place of which a man takes possession, (TA,) and around which a dam (مُسَنَّاةٌ) is made: (K, TA:) pl. أَحْوَازٌ. (TA.) ― -b2- حَوْزُ الدَّارِ: see حَيِّزٌ. -A3- لَيْلَةُ الحَوْزِ The first night during which camels repair towards the water (As, S, K) when it is distant from the pasture: (As, S:) because they are driven gently that night: but when their faces are turned towards the water and they are left to pasture that night, the night is called لَيْلَةُ الطَّلَقِ. (TA.) One says to a man, when he holds back respecting an affair, دَعْنِى مِنْ حَوْزِكَ وَطَلَقِكَ (assumed tropical:) [ Let me alone and cease from this and that discursion of thine ]. (TA.) And one says also, طَوَّلَ عَلَيْنَا فُلَانٌ بِا@لْحَوْزِ وَا@لطَّلَقِ قَبْلَ القَرَبِ (assumed tropical:) [ Such a one was prolix, or tedious, to us with this and that discursion before coming to the point ]. (TA.) ― -b2- حَوْزٌ is also used as an epithet; though properly an inf. n.: you say, سَوْقٌ حَوْزٌ [ A gentle driving: or a vehement driving ]. (TA.)