استحضر

See also: أستحضر

Arabic

Etymology

From the root ح ض ر (ḥ-ḍ-r); compare حَضَرَ (ḥaḍara, “to be present”).

Verb

اِسْتَحْضَرَ • (istaḥḍara) X (non-past يَسْتَحْضِرُ (yastaḥḍiru), verbal noun اِسْتِحْضَار (istiḥḍār))

1. to desire or demand (someone's) presence, to summon
2. to represent
3. to represent to oneself as present
4. to represent to oneself, call back into memory, remember
5. to imagine to be in the presence of God
6. to come into the presence of God
7. to urge (a horse) on to run

References

• Lane, Edward William (1863) “استحضر”, in Arabic-English Lexicon‎^[1], London: Williams & Norgate
• Steingass, Francis Joseph (1884) “استحضر”, in The Student's Arabic–English Dictionary‎^[2], London: W.H. Allen