حَوْزٌ

verbal noun of 1 [q. v.].

فِى حَوْزِهِ: see حَوْزَةٌ.

-A2- A place of which a man takes possession, (TA,) and around which a dam (مُسَنَّاةٌ) is made: (K, TA:) plural أَحْوَازٌ. (TA.)

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 بِالْحَوْزِ وَالطَّلَقِ قَبْلَ القَرَبِ (assumed tropical:) [Such a one was prolix, or tedious, to us with this and that discursion before coming to the point]. (TA.)

حَوْزٌ is also used as an epithet; though properly a verbal noun: you say, سَوْقٌ حَوْزٌ [A gentle driving: or a vehement driving]. (TA.)