اعوز

, verbal noun إِعْوَازٌ: see عَوِزَ, in three places.

-A2- اعوزهُ الدَّهْرُ Fortune caused him to became in want, or need; (S, O, K;) or rendered him poor; (A, Msb;) [i. e.,] poverty befell him. (TA.)

اعوزهُ الشَّىْءُ [lit., The thing caused him to want; meaning] he wanted, needed, or required, the thing, [or had it not,] (S, O, K,) and was unable to attain it: (S, K:) and the thing escaped him, so that he was unable to attain it, (M, Mgh, Msb,) it being much wanted by him; (M, TA;) as also الشَّىْءُ ↓ عَازَهُ: (M, TA:) or the latter, [virtually, like عَازَ الشَّىْءَ,] he found not the thing: (O, K, TA:) but Az says that this latter phrase is not known. (O, TA.)

The thing was little, or scarce, or scanty, to him, or in his estimation, and needful to him. (Mgh, TA.)

اعوزهُ الأَمْرُ The affair was hard, or difficult, to him. (A, TA.) So in the saying, مَسْأَلَةٌ يَخْتَلِفُ فِيهَا كِبَارُ الصَّحَابَةِ يُعْوِزُ فِقْهُهَا [A question respecting which the great men of the Companions differ;] the knowledge whereof is difficult. (Mgh.)

-A3- And one says, مَا يُعْوِزُ لِفُلَانٍ شَىْءٌ إِلَّا ذَهَبَ بِهِ A thing does not come within sight of such a one but he takes it away: (Ibn-Háni, O, K:) a saying disapproved by As, but held by AZ to be correct, [thus said by him with ز, (TA,)] and heard from the Arabs. (O.) [See also أَعْوَرَ, with ر.]