أَمْسَكَ
Root: مسك
Form: 4
Full Definition
2 He maintained: he was tenacious, or niggardly.
3 He, or it, held fast a thing: and arrested it.
4 أَمْسَكَهُ He held, retained, detained,
5 أَمْسَكَ عَنِ الأَمْرِ He held, refrained, or abstained, from the thing.
6 أَمْسَكَهُ He grasped it, clutched it, laid hold upon it; or seized it, (قَبَضَ عَلَيْهِ) بِيَدِهِ with his hand: or he took it; or took it with his hand, (أَخَذَهُ,) namely, a rope, &c.: or he held, or clung, to it: [as also بِهِ]. Also, أَمْسَكَ بِهِ signifies [the same; or] he laid hold upon, or seized, somewhat of his body, or what might detain him, as an arm or a hand, or a garment, and the like: but أَمْسَقَهُ may signify he withheld him, or restrained him, from acting according to his own free will. (Mugh, art. بِ.)
7 أَمْسَكَ بَطْنَهُ [It bound, or confined, his belly ]: said of medicine. (S, O, Msb, K; all in art. عقل.)
8 الإِمْسَاك, in relation to تَحْجِيل: see an unusual application of it in art. طلق, conj. 4.
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