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▪ Any connection to other items of √ḤṢN (‘fortress, to be inaccessible’; ‘chastity’; ‘horse’)? – Lane ii 1865 reports the Ar lexicographers’ explanation which links ʔabū ’l-ḥuṣayn to ↗ḥiṣn ‘fortress’ »because of his [i.e., the fox’s] protecting himself from causes of harm by his acuteness [Ṣ, Ḳ]«. However, given the name’s composition of the possessivizer ʔabū… ‘father of…’ and the diminuitive FuʕayL form ḥuṣayn, it seems to be more natural to explain the term as *ʻthe one with the little fortress (sc., the fox den)’.
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▪ DRS 9 (2010) #ḤS/ṢN-1 Hbr ḥosen ‘force’, EmpAram ḥsn ‘violence’, JP ḥᵃsen ‘être fort, véhément’, Ar ḥaṣuna ‘être fort, fortifié’; oAram ḥsn, JP ḥisnā ‘forteresse, force’, Syr ḥesnā, Ar ḥiṣn ‘forteresse’, SAr mḥṣn ‘ouvrage défensif, fortification’, Mhr Ḥrs ḥāṣən ‘grande maison’, Jib ḥeṣn, Soq ḥóṣon ‘château’; Gz ḥəṣn ‘forteresse, château’; Hbr ḥāsīn, Aram ḥassīnā, Ar ḥaṣīn ‘fort’. -2 ʔabū ’l-ḥiṣn, LevAr ʔabū ḥsēn, DaṯAr ḥuṣaynī, Soq ḥṣáyni ‘renard’.
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▪ See above, section CONC.
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For other values of the root, cf. ↗ḥaṣuna, ↗ḥiṣn, ↗ḥiṣān, and ↗ʔiḥṣān, as well as, for the overall picture, root entry ↗√ḤṢN.

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