From en- + circle.
encircle (third-person singular simple present encircles, present participle encircling, simple past and past participle encircled)
- (transitive) To surround, form a circle around.
- To move or go around completely.
1996, Macy Nulman, The Encyclopedia of Jewish Prayer, page 385:It is also customary in the Orient and among Sephardim for the mourners to encircle the coffin of an erudite person seven times and recite Yoshayv besayter while making each circuit.
surround
- Aromanian: ntsircljedz
- Bulgarian: обкръжавам (bg) (obkrǎžavam)
- Catalan: encerclar (ca)
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 包圍／包围 (zh) (bāowéi), 環繞／环绕 (zh) (huánrào)
- Dutch: omsingelen (nl)
- Esperanto: ĉirkaŭi (eo)
- Finnish: ympäröidä (fi), saartaa (fi)
- French: encercler (fr) f
- Friulian: cenzi, cercenâ, circundâ, contornâ
- Galician: cercar
- German: umzingeln (de), einfassen (de)
- Greek:
- Ancient: κυκλόω (kuklóō)
- Hungarian: körbevesz (hu)
- Ido: encirkligar (io)
- Irish: ciorclaigh, timpeallaigh
- Italian: accerchiare (it), circondare (it), contornare (it), cingere (it)
- Latin: circumdō
- Manchu: ᡨᠣᡵᡥᠣᠮᠪᡳ (torhombi)
- Maori: whakatāewa (as an enemy), whawhe, awhe, ponitaka, tarawhiti
- Mongolian: тойруулах (tojruulax)
- Ottoman Turkish: چنبرلمك (çemberlemek), صارمق (sarmak)
- Persian: فراگیری (fa) (farâgiri), محاصره (fa) (mohâsere)
- Polish: okrążać (pl) impf, okrążyć (pl) pf, otaczać (pl) impf, otoczyć (pl) pf
- Portuguese: cercar (pt)
- Romanian: înconjura (ro), încercui (ro), împresura (ro)
- Russian: окружа́ть (ru) impf (okružátʹ), окружи́ть (ru) pf (okružítʹ)
- Sanskrit: वेवेष्टि (sa) (veveṣṭi)
- Scottish Gaelic: cuairtich
- Serbo-Croatian: okružiti (sh), zaokružiti (sh)
- Spanish: rodear (es)
- Telugu: గిరికొను (girikonu), చుట్టుకొను (te) (cuṭṭukonu)
- Ukrainian: ото́чувати impf (otóčuvaty), оточи́ти pf (otočýty)
- Welsh: cylchu (cy), amgylchynu (cy)
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to move or go around completely
