Quranic root
حوش
ḥ · w · sh
The lexical field joins wildness and untamedness with gathering, enclosing, and drawing things together.
The possible underlying principle is cautiously described as gathering from around: game is collected toward a snare, while related developments include enclosing, withdrawal, and being moved or affected. These root-level connections do not make every development a meaning of every form.
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Forms in the Quran
The forms this root actually takes in the Quran. Select one to jump to its senses and examples.
حاشا
ḥāshā
- Part of speech
- Exclamatory expression / particle
- Quran occurrences
- 2 occurrences
Selected examples are shown with the sense they illustrate — chosen to teach that sense, not the complete list of this form’s Quran occurrences.
An expression of exoneration: far be Allah from this; Allah forbid.
Used in the Quranic construction حاشَ لِلَّهِ to declare Allah free from an attributed fault or unacceptable matter.
- Lane · entry 16073
Selected Quran examples
Quran 12:31word 23
“Forbid”
Quran 12:51word 10
“Allah forbid”
Occurrences in the Quran
Every place this root appears, in Quran order. The first few are shown here.
View all 2 occurrencesBroader Classical Arabic meanings
Recorded for this root in the Classical lexicons beyond its Quran usage. These are secondary to the Quran senses above.
Show 24 Classical meanings
حاشَ
To drive game or animals toward a snare or a person by coming around them; hence, to collect or draw them together.
Used for driving game, sheep or goats, camels, and similar animals; it can also mean simply to collect or draw together.
- Lane · entry 16065
حَوَّشَ
To collect several things, or to collect much.
Form II usage.
- Lane · entry 16066
حَاوَشَ
To turn aside from the place reached by the rain of lightning, whichever way it turns.
Attested in the construction حاوش البرقَ.
- Lane · entry 16067
حَاوَشَ
To circumvent someone, or try to induce him to turn, incline, or yield, including by deceit or guile.
Used in contexts such as war, litigation, contention, or other attempts to influence someone indirectly.
- Lane · entry 16067
حَاوَشَ
To excite, incite, urge, or instigate someone to do something.
A causative urging construction, including حاوشته عليه.
- Lane · entry 16067
تَحَوَّشَ
To withdraw, retire, or move away from people or a group.
Used both with عن and with مِنْ in expressions of removal or withdrawal.
- Lane · entry 16069
تَحَوَّشَ
To become forlorn of one’s husband, or become without a husband.
A specialized usage applied to a woman separated from or bereft of her husband.
- Lane · entry 16069
تَحَوَّشَ
To feel or be moved with shame, shyness, or bashfulness.
Describes an inward reaction of embarrassment or modesty.
- Lane · entry 16069
اِنْحَاشَ
To take fright and flee; to be frightened at, averse from, or shrink from someone or something.
The form can describe frightened withdrawal or aversion, including an animal’s response to being chided or driven.
- Lane · entry 16071
اِنْحَاشَ
To be moved or affected by, and therefore to care about or regard, something or someone; in the negative, not to be moved or concerned.
Especially attested in the negative construction ما ينحاشُ من شيءٍ or من فلانٍ.
- Lane · entry 16071
اِنْحَاشَ
To become gathered together.
Attested of camels becoming collected into a group.
- Lane · entry 16071
اِحْتَوَشَ
To encompass or surround; to place someone in the midst of a group; of game, to drive it from one party to another.
The same enclosing image is used figuratively of blood surrounding or invading a state of purity from different sides.
- Lane · entry 16072
حَوْشٌ
An enclosure resembling a fenced holding-place; a court or enclosed space beside or within a house.
The enclosure sense is associated with the dialect of Iraq; the court sense is reported in Egyptian usage and may refer to a space surrounded by dwellings or walls.
- Lane · entry 16074
الحُوشُ
Wild animals or game.
A nominal use equating الحوش with الوحش.
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حُوشِيٌّ
Wild, untamed, undomesticated, uncivilized, unfamiliar, or unsociable.
Applied to people and animals. Of camels, it can refer to wild or incompletely trained animals and is also associated in traditional accounts with camels of the jinn.
- Lane · entry 16076
حُوشِيٌّ
Acute or sharp in intellect.
Used in the expression حوشيّ الفؤاد, literally describing the heart or mind.
- Lane · entry 16076
حُوشِيٌّ
Strange, uncouth, unusual, or difficult-to-understand speech; a rare or unfamiliar word or phrase.
Applied to speech, a word, or an expression, in contrast with clear eloquence.
- Lane · entry 16076
حُوشِيٌّ
Dark and terrible.
Attested as an epithet of night.
- Lane · entry 16076
حُوشِيَّةٌ
Wildness or unsociability of disposition; the quality of not mixing with others.
A noun describing the disposition of a person characterized as حوشيّ.
- Lane · entry 16077
مُحْتَوَشٌ
Encompassed or surrounded.
Passive participial description of something placed within an enclosing group or boundary.
- Lane · entry 16078
حَوَاشَةٌ
A matter in which there is sin.
A lexical use describing an act or affair involving wrongdoing.
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حَوَاشَةٌ
Shyness or bashfulness.
A noun for the state of one who withdraws inwardly from a matter out of modesty.
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حَائِشٌ
A group or cluster of date palms.
A collective noun reported as having no singular form.
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حَاشَ
To eat from the sides of food until it is consumed.
Used of eating around the edges or sides of food.
- Lane · entry 16065
Cautions
Points that affect how this root should be read.
The Quranic spelling حاشَ is presented under the normalized citation expression حاشا; grammatical analyses of this expression vary.
The proposed connection between the root and gathering is presented cautiously in the root-level discussion and is not used by itself to establish a Quranic form sense.