حرز

• IPA^(key): /ħa.ra.za/

حَرَزَ • (ḥaraza) I (non-past يَحْرُزُ (yaḥruzu), verbal noun حَرْز (ḥarz))

1. to keep, guard, protect, preserve
2. to take care (of something)
3. to be strong

• Wehr, Hans (1979) “حرز”, in J. Milton Cowan, editor, A Dictionary of Modern Written Arabic, 4th edition, Ithaca, NY: Spoken Language Services, →ISBN

• IPA^(key): /ħirz/

حِرْز • (ḥirz) m (plural أَحْرَاز (ʔaḥrāz) or حَرَائِز (ḥarāʔiz))

1. amulet

   Synonym: تَمِيمَة (tamīma)

2. shelter, refuge

   Synonym: مَلْجَأْ (maljaʔ)

   • 905AH, al-Kafami, quoting Ali b. al-Husayn, “دعاء الجوشن الكبير:28”, in البلد الأمين‎^[1], archived from the original on 20 September 2020:

     يَا عِمَادَ مَنْ لَا عِمَادَ لَهُ يَا سَنَدَ مَنْ لَا سَنَدَ لَهُ يَا ذُخْرَ مَنْ لَا ذُخْرَ لَهُ يَا حِرْزَ مَنْ لَا حِرْزَ لَهُ يَا غِيَاثَ مَنْ لَا غِيَاثَ لَهُ يَا فَخْرَ مَنْ لَا فَخْرَ لَهُ يَا عِزَّ مَنْ لَا عِزَّ لَهُ يَا مُعِينَ مَنْ لَا مُعِينَ لَهُ يَا أَنِيسَ مَنْ لَا أَنِيسَ لَهُ يَا أَمَانَ مَنْ لَا أَمَانَ لَهُ

     yā ʕimāda man lā ʕimāda lahu yā sanada man lā sanada lahu yā ḏuḵra man lā ḏuḵra lahu yā ḥirza man lā ḥirza lahu yā ḡiyāṯa man lā ḡiyāṯa lahu yā faḵra man lā faḵra lahu yā ʕizza man lā ʕizza lahu yā muʕīna man lā muʕīna lahu yā ʔanīsa man lā ʔanīsa lahu yā ʔamāna man lā ʔamāna lahu

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Borrowed from Arabic حِرْز (ḥirz).

حرز • (herz)

1. amulet, talisman

   Synonym: تعویذ (ta'viz)

2. shelter, refuge

   Synonym: پناه (panâh)

   • c. 1390, Shams-ud-Dīn Muḥammad Ḥāfiẓ, “Ghazal 329”, in دیوان حافظ [The Divān of Ḥāfiẓ]‎^[2]:

     منصور بن مظفّر غازیست حرز من
     و از این خجسته نام بر اعدا مظفّرم

     mansūr bin muzaffar-i ġāzī-st hirz-i man
     u az īn xujasta nām bar a'dā muzaffaram

     The holy warrior Mansūr bin Muzaffar is my refuge,
     And through this auspicious name, I triumph over my foes.

     (Classical Persian transliteration)

• Hayyim, Sulayman (1934) “حرز”, in New Persian–English dictionary, Teheran: Librairie-imprimerie Béroukhim