ID … • Sw – • BP 1446 • APD … • © SG | 15Feb2021
√ḤFẒ
I 1 defense, protection, guarding (esp. of cherished, sacred things); 2 preservation, maintenance (ʕalà of interests); 3 keeping, upholding (of loyalty), adherence (to a commitment). – II dressing, ligature, bandage – WehrCowan1976.
▪ [vI] is the regular vn. of ḥāfaẓa (ʕalà), vb. III, 1 to preserve, keep up, maintain, uphold, sustain; 2 to supervise, control, watch over s.th.; 3a to watch out for, take care, be heedful, be mindful of, look after, attend, pay attention to; b to keep, follow, observe, bear in mind, comply with, conform to; 4 to protect, guard, defend. – ḥāfaẓa is the (applicative) L-stem of ↗ḥafiẓa ‘to preserve, keep, maintain, defend, etc.’, itself from protCSem *ḥpṯ̣ ‘to be mindful of, be attentive, care, preserve’.
▪ [vII] is a synecdochic concretisation of [vI.4], where *‘protecting, guarding, defending’ has taken on the sense of the means with which protection etc. is achieved, namely a ‘dressing, ligature, bandage’.
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►ḥifāẓ al-ḥayḍ, n., sanitary napkin.For other values attached to the root, cf., ↗ḥafiẓa, ↗ḥifẓaẗ, ↗maḥfaẓaẗ, ↗muḥāfaẓaẗ, ↗taḥaffuẓ, ↗ḥāfiẓ, as well as, for the overall picture, root entry ↗√ḤFẒ.
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