Lane's Arabic-English Lexicon

نَاوَشُوهُمْ

Root: نوش

Form: 3

Full Definition

نَاوَشُوهُمْIII , [Verbal.Noun مُنَاوَشَةٌ, They reached, or thrust, them with the spears, in near, but not close, conflict, being in like manner reached, or thrust, by them,] is from تَنَاوُشٌ in the first of the senses assigned to it above: مُنَاوَشَةٌ, in conflict, is the reaching one another [with spears or other weapons] when the two parties are near [but not close]: and is like مُهَاوَشَةٌ, i. e., conflicting. See also 6.
2 ناوش الشَّىْءَ He mixed with [or engaged in] the thing.


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