5 tHS~n A^HSn HAS HSn tHSn tHSnn , said of the enemy, (S, TA,) [ He fortified himself: or] he entered the [or a ] HiSon [or fortress ]: or protected himself by it: or took it, or made it, as a place of abode. (TA.) ― -b2- And hence, He guarded, or protected, himself in any way. (TA.) ― -b3- See also 1. ― -b4- Also He (a horse, TA) became a HiSaAn , (K,) i. e. a stallion, or fit to cover: (TA voce raAHa :) or affected to be so: (Az, TA:) [and so ↓ HaS~ana or HuS~ina ; for] a horse in this case is said to bear evidence of Alt~aHaS~un and Alt~aHoSiyn . (S, * K, TA.)
The corpus record — Arabic
تَحَصُّن
tahassun
5 tHS~n A^HSn HAS HSn tHSn tHSnn , said of the enemy, (S, TA,) [ He fortified himself: or] he entered the [or a ] HiSon [or fortress ]: or protected himself by it: or took it, or made it, as a place of abode. (TA.) ― -b2- And hence, He guarded, or protected, himself in any way. (TA.) ― -b3- See also
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What it meant — Lane's Arabic-English Lexicon
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- تَحَصُّنًا Quran 24:33 (An-Nur 33)
Quran text from Tanzil (tanzil.net), distributed verbatim per its license. Morphological facts derived from the Quranic Arabic Corpus (corpus.quran.com, Kais Dukes), stated as facts with source credit. Dictionary senses from Lane, An Arabic-English Lexicon (1863-93, public domain), via the Perseus Digital Library.