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 | ||