تَحَسَّسُ

5 tHs~s A^Hs Hs tHss He listened to the discourse of people: (El-Harbee, K:) accord. to Aboo-Mo'ádh, it is similar to tasam~aEa and tabaS~ara : (TA:) or he sought repeatedly, or time after time, to know a thing, by the sense ( AlHAsp ) [of hearing &c.]: (Har p. 678:) or (so accord. to the TA, but in the K “ and, ”) he sought after, (Msb, K.) or sought after repeatedly, or time after time, (Msb,) news, or tidings, of a people, in a good cause; (K;) tjs~s signifying the doing the same in an evil cause: A'Obeyd says, you say, taHas~asotu Alxabara and tajas~asotuhu ; and Sh says that tanad~asotuhu is similar to it; and IAar, that taHas~asotu Alxabara and tabaj~asotuhu [but this is app. a mistranscription for tabaH~avotuhu ] signify the same. (TA.) You say also, tHs~s mina Al$~ayo'i He asked, or inquired, after news, or tidings, of the thing. (S, TA.) And tHs~s fulaAnFA , and mino fulaAnK , He inquired, or sought for information, respecting such a one; as also tjs~s : or the former signifies he sought after him for himself; and the latter, “ he sought after him for another. ” (TA, art. js .) The passage in which it occurs in the Kur xii. 87, has been differently interpreted, accord. to the several explanations here given. (TA.) -A2- See also 7.