forhabban

Equivalent to for- +‎ habban.

• IPA^(key): /forˈxɑb.bɑn/,

forhabban

1. (transitive) to hold in, restrain, retain
   • 1921, Joseph Bosworth, Thomas Northcote Toller, Bosworth-Toller Anglo-Saxon Dictionary Online:

     Hī ne mihton forhabban merestrēames mōd, ac hē manegum gescēod.

     They could not restrain the sea-stream's spirit/pride, but it separated for many.

2. (transitive, reflexive) to restrain one's self from (+ fram)
   • 1921, Joseph Bosworth, Thomas Northcote Toller, Bosworth-Toller Anglo-Saxon Dictionary Online:

     Forhæfde hē hine fram his gebēorscipe.

     He restrained himself from his beer party.

3. (intransitive) to abstain, refrain (+ fram)
   • 1921, Joseph Bosworth, Thomas Northcote Toller, Bosworth-Toller Anglo-Saxon Dictionary Online:

     Scolde hēo forhabban fram ingange Godes hūses.

     She must refrain from entering into God's house.

• forhæbbend m (“one who stays abstinent”)
• forhæfed (“continent, abstinent”)
• forhæfednes f (“restraint, abstinence”)

• Joseph Bosworth and T. Northcote Toller (1898) “forhabban”, in An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary, 2nd edition, Oxford: Oxford University Press.