حصن

Etymology 1
/, assimilating the laryngeal from earlier / , also  / , already attested in  , deriving from a well-used root  , which would be cognate to the Arabic root  related to roughness, or perhaps  related to goodliness, comeliness, if one relates pulchritude with brawn, and fortresses with exaltedness of appearance. This ascription of Aramaic origin is corroborated by the consideration that fortresses are not to be sought in the original place of the Arabic language, and in conformity with this, most other terms for fortresses, castles, and towers are borrowed,, , , , , , , , ,.

The root’s other formations, containing meanings related to inaccessibility, protection, strength, are from the word for the fortress,

Though the root contains, not even this is a strong contender for a native origin in this root, since this word for a stud or stallion, of high register, could have been invented easily in folk poetry from the idea of strength a fortress is connected to, which is supported by the fact that horses aren’t to be sought in Arabia either, and the other word  has also been picked up.

Noun

 * 1)  stronghold, fortress, entrenchment
 * 2) * "ar"

- لَا إِلٰهَ إِلَّا اللهُ حِصْنِي فَمَنْ دَخَلَ حِصْنَي أَمِنَ مِنْ عَذَابِي


 * 1) armor or weapons

Etymology 2
After the root.

Verb

 * 1) to be inaccessible, to be unattainable

Verb

 * 1) to be continent, to be chaste, to keep decor by keeping in husbandly home or unapproached

Verb

 * 1) to render inaccessible, to make unattainable
 * 2) to immunize, to vaccinate (that is, to make unattainable for pathogens)

Etymology
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Noun

 * 1) natural or artificial stronghold, especially a castle, fortress or citadel