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جَوَازٌ جواز (assumed tropical:) The act of watering, or giving to drink: (S:) or a single watering of, or giving drink to, camels. (TA.) [See also جَائِزَةٌ.] A rájiz says, “ يَا صَاحِبَ ا@لْمَآءِ فَدَتْكَ نَفْسِى
عَجِّلْ جَوَازِي وَأَقِلَّ حَبْسِى
” [O master of the water (may my soul be thy ransom) hasten the watering of my camels, and make my detention little]. (TA.) ― -b2- (tropical:) The water with which beasts are watered, or with which seed-produce is watered: (AA, S, K:) [and] water which is given one that he may travel with it the road. (A, Mgh.) [See also جَائِزَةٌ.] ― -b3- Hence, (Mgh,) (assumed tropical:) The traveller's pass, (A, Mgh, K,) given him to prevent any one's offering opposition to him: (A, Mgh:) pl. أَجْوِزَةٌ. (A, TA.) -A2- The office, or authority, of a guardian and affiancer. (TA.)
An Arabic-English Lexicon. London. Williams and Norgate. 1863.
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