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حَزْمٌ حزام حزم حزمة [Prudence, or discretion, and precaution;] sound management of one's affair or case, (S, K,) and taking the sure course therein, (T, S, K,) and precaution, that it may not become beyond the power of management: (TA:) said in a trad. to consist in evil opinion: and in another, in the asking counsel of people of judgment and obeying them: (TA:) or good judgment: (Mgh:) or strength, [or firmness of mind or of judgment, (see حَازِمٌ,)] and sound management: (Ham p. 33:) the first part thereof said by Aktham Ibn-Seyfee to be consultation: (Ham ibid:) from the same word as signifying the act of “ binding the حِزَام, ” (Mgh,) or from this word as signifying the act of “ binding with the حزام, ” and “ with the rope: ” (T, TA:) and ↓ حَزْمَةٌ signifies the same; as in the saying, إِِنَّ الوَحَآءَ مِنْ طَعَامِ الحَزْمَهِ [Verily quickness is of the food of prudence, &c.], a prov., mentioned by Ibn-Kethweh, alluding to people's collecting themselves together and aiding one another, when they act with quickness, or sharpness, and vigour; and said in praise of him who thus acts. (TA.) You say, أَخَذَ بَالحَزْمِ (TA) and [sometimes] فِى الحَزْمِ (K in art. حوط) [He took the course prescribed by prudence, discretion, precaution, or good judgment; he used precaution: and, like أَخَذَ بِالثِّقَةِ, he took the sure course in his affair]. -A2- Elevated ground; as also ↓ أَحْزَمُ and ↓ حَيْزُومٌ : (K:) or this last signifies rough, or rugged, ground: (Yz, IB, K:) and حَزْمٌ is [ground] more elevated than what is termed حَزْنٌ: (S:) or more rough, or rugged, than what is termed حزْنٌ: (Ham p. 45:) or elevated ground, or rugged and elevated ground, that is girt (↓ اِحْتَزَامَ ) by a torrent: or rugged ground, having many stones, which are more rugged and rough and scabrous than those of the أَكَمَة, but the top of which is broad and long, extending to the length of two leagues, and three, and less than that, which the camels do not ascend except by a road that it has: accord. to Yaakoob, the م is a substitute for the ن of حَزْنٌ: pl. حُزُومٌ. (TA.)
An Arabic-English Lexicon. London. Williams and Norgate. 1863.

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