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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 [The blood invaded from every quarter the state of pureness]; as though the blood encompassed the pureness, and enclosed it on either side. [Alluding to the collecting of the blood about the uterus previously to menstruation.]


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