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I 1a guarding; b safeguarding; 2 preservation; 3 protection, defense; 4 conservation, sustaining, upholding; 5 retention, maintenance (ʕalà of s.th.); 6 conservativism (pol.), conservative attitude; 7 following, observance (ʕalà of s.th.), compliance (ʕalà with s.th.), adherence (ʕalà to); 8 guarding (min against misfortune), saving (min from misadventure). – II (pl. ‑āt) 1 garrison (mil.); 2a ^BP#660 governorate (one of five administrative divisions of Egypt, in addition to 14 mudīriyyāt); b province, any one of the larger administrative districts (Syr.); 3 office of the muḥāfiẓ (head of a governorate) – WehrCowan1976.

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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cogn

▪ ↗ḥafiẓa.

disc

▪ See above, section CONC.
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deriv

►muḥāfaẓaẗ ʕalà al-nafs, n., self-preservation
►maḏhab al-muḥāfaẓaẗ, n., conservative movement, conservativism, Toryism.

►^BP#1615muḥāfiẓ, adj. n., 1 supervisory, controlling; 2 observing (ʕalà s.th.), complying (ʕalà with), etc.; 3 conservative (pol.), al-muḥāfiẓūn, n.pl., the Conservatives, the Tories; 4 keeper, guarder, guardian, custodian, caretaker, supervisor, superintendent; 5a mayor; b governor (Eg.: title of the chief officer of a governorate; SyrAr: chief officer of a province); c director general, president (= Brit. governor): PA III.

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

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