حَوْزَةٌ
1.
i. q.
حَيِّزٌ, as pointed out in two places below. (S, Msb, &c.)
2.
[Hence,] (assumed tropical:) A thing that is in one's possession or occupation; a thing that is one's property: so in the saying of a certain woman, وَأَحْمِى حَوْزَةَ الغَايءِبِ (assumed tropical:) And I guard from encroachment the property of the absent: meaning her فَرْج, which was the property of her husband by the marriage-contract: whence it appears that, if this saying be the only ground upon which Az has asserted that one of the significations of حَوْزَةٌ is the فَرْج of a woman, [as is also said in the K,] his assertion requires consideration; for a woman's فرج is her own when she has no husband; and when she is married, it is her husband's property. (L, TA.) You say also, صَارَفِى حَوْزَتِهِ, and
فِى حَوْزِهِ, [and
فى حَيِّزِهِ,] It became in his possession, or occupation. (L, TA.) And فُلَانٌ مَانِعٌ حَوْزَتَهُ (assumed tropical:) Such a one defends, or guards, from encroachment, or invasion, or attack, what is in his
حَيِّز [or place; meaning, in his possession or occupation]. (TA.) In like manner, a poet says,
He guarded from encroachment his tracts of pasture-land [so that they were left deserted]. (Fr, TA.) And it is said in a tradition, فَحَمَى حَوْزَةً الإِسْلَامِ (tropical:) And he defended, or protected, or guarded, from encroachment, or invasion, or attack, the limits, [meaning, what the limits comprised, i. e., the territory,] and the tracts, or regions, of El-Islám [meaning, of the Muslims]. (TA.) حَوْزَةُ المُلْكِ signifies [in like manner] بَيْضَتُهُ [i. e. (assumed tropical:) The seat of regal power: or the heart, or principal part, of the kingdom]. (S, K.)حَمَى حَوْزَاتِهِ فَتُرِكْنَ قَفْرًا