conc▪ [vI] : Like ↗ḥifāẓ, muḥāfaẓaẗ is a 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 itself 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’.
▪ [vI.6] ‘(political) conservativism’ is a special development from ‘to (seek to) keep, preserve, s.th.
▪ [vII] : From [vI.2], [vI.3] and/or [vI.4] the value of a military ‘garrison’ as controlling, attending, and/or protecting force seems to have developed, hence also the idea of a ‘governorate’ as the seat of a garrison or ‘centre of administrative control’.
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