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Etymological Dictionary of Arabic
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ḥāfiẓ حافِظ , pl. [v2] ḥuffāẓ, ḥafaẓaẗ 
ID … • Sw – • BP … • APD … • © SG | 15Feb2021
√ḤFẒ 
adj.; n. 
1 keeper, guarder, guardian, custodian, caretaker; 2 (pl. ḥuffāẓ, ḥafaẓaẗ) one who knows the Koran by heart (formerly an honorific epithet) – WehrCowan1976. 
▪ ḥāfiẓ is a PA of ↗ḥafiẓa, vb. I (from protCSem *ḥpṯ̣ ‘to be mindful of, be attentive, care, preserve’). The two main lexicalised meanings are, in the case of [v1], from the verb’s meaning ‘to hold\have in safekeeping, take care of; to protect, guard, defend; to maintain, sustain, uphold (s.th.)’, and, in the case of [v2], from ḥafiẓa in the sense of ‘to retain in one’s memory, remember, know by heart; to memorize, learn by heart, commit to memory (esp. the Koran)’.
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▪ ↗ḥafiẓa. 
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▪ (Huehnergard2011:) Engl hafiz, from Ar ḥāfiẓ ‘guardian, one who has memorized the Koran’, PA of ḥafiẓa ‘to preserve, be mindful of, learn, memorize’. 
►ḥaffaẓa, vb. II, to have s.o. memorize (s.th.): D-stem, caus.

►taḥfīẓ, n., memorization drill, inculcation (esp. of the Koran): vn. II
►ḥāfiẓaẗ, n.f., 1 memory; – 2 (pl. ‑āt, ḥawāfiẓᵘ) wallet, pocketbook, money order (Eg.): PA I.f.

For other values attached to the root, cf., ↗ḥafiẓa, ↗ḥifẓaẗ, ↗ḥifāẓ, ↗maḥfaẓaẗ, ↗muḥāfaẓaẗ, ↗taḥaffuẓ, as well as, for the overall picture, root entry ↗√ḤFẒ. 
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