to encircle, surround
→
to understand
1 realization
Related shifts
| ID | Meaning 1 | Direction | Meaning 2 |
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Comment
| NEW Realization 1 | ||
|---|---|---|
| type | Polysemy | |
| language | Classical Arabic | |
| lexeme | ʔaḥāṭa | |
| meaning 1 | to surround | ʔaḥāṭa l-qawm-u bil-balad-i ‘The people surrounded the sides of the town’ (Lane 671) |
| direction | → | |
| meaning 2 | to understand | wa-lā yuḥīṭūna bi-šayʔ-in min ʕilm-i-hi ‘they encompass not a thing of His knowledge’ (al-Qurʔān- 2:255) |
| reference | Lane: 671 | |
| comment | ||