مَأْزِمٌ

A narrow, or strait, place; a place of narrowness or straitness; (S, K;) like مَأْزِلٌ; (S;) of a land, and of the pudendum muliebre, and of life, (K,) or of the means of subsistence; (Lh, K;) or of any kind: (TA:) any narrow road between two mountains: (S, Msb:) a narrow place in mountains, such that one part meets another, and the place beyond widens: (TA:) plural مَازِمُ. (S, K.)

And hence, (Msb,) A place of war or fight; (S, Msb;) because of the straitness of the state thereof, and the difficulty of escape from it. (Msb.)