circle
→
yard, courtyard
1 realization
Related shifts
| ID | Meaning 1 | Direction | Meaning 2 | |
| 4814 | circle | → | apartment, flat | Open |
| NEW Realization 1 | ||
|---|---|---|
| Type | Polysemy | |
| Language | Classical Arabic | |
| Lexeme | حَوْشٌ ḥawš- | |
| Meaning 1 | enclosure | |
| Direction | → | |
| Meaning 2 | yard, courtyard | الدارحَوْش courtyard |
| Reference | Wehr: 249 | |
| Comment | From the verb حَاشَ 'to round up' (Wehr:249). Also, in the Iraqi Arabic ḥooš 'court, courtyard, patio; house' (Woodhead:123). |
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The idea behind is that the territory of a household was the thing resembling the kind of enclosure made of trees or wood and surrounded by walls, for instance, in Egypt, and in the Near East elsewhere (see Lane:672).