احتوش
Root: حوش
Form: 8
Full Definition
احتوشVIII
, and, more commonly, بِالصَّيْدِ, The people, or company of men, encompassed, or surrounded, the chase, or game: or scared it, one, or one party, to another: the و remaining here unchanged as it does in اِجْتَوَرُوا. And احتوشو
فُلَانًا They encompassed, or surrounded, such a one: or they made such a one to be in the midst of them; as also احتوشوا
عَلَيْهِ, [and احتوشوا حَوَالَيْهِ, (M and O in art. حول,)] and
تحاوشوهُ , or تحاوشوهُ بَيْنَهُمْ.
2 Hence the phrase احتوش الدَّمُ الطُّهْرَ
2 Hence the phrase احتوش الدَّمُ الطُّهْرَ
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