arrest

Mane

Noun

1. A check, stop, an act or instance of arresting something.
2. The condition of being stopped, standstill.
3. The process of arresting a criminal, suspect etc.
4. A confinement, detention, as after an arrest.
5. A device to physically arrest motion.
6. The judicial detention of a ship to secure a financial claim against its operators.
7. (obsolete) Any seizure by power, physical or otherwise.
8. A scurfiness of the back part of the hind leg of a horse

Verb

1. (obsolete) To stop the motion of (a person, animal, or body part).
2. (obsolete) To stay, remain.
3. To stop or slow (a process, course etc.).
4. To seize (someone) with the authority of the law; to take into legal custody.
5. To catch the attention of.
6. To undergo cardiac arrest.

Binavkirî wek

ar‧rest

Wekî (IPA) tê gotin

/əˈɹɛst/

Etîmolojî

From Middle English arest (noun) and aresten (verb), from Old French areste (noun) and arester (“to stay, stop”, verb), from Vulgar Latin *arrestō, from Latin ad- (“to”) + restō (“to stop, remain behind, stay back”), from re- (“back”) + stō (“to stand”), from Proto-Indo-European *steh₂- (“to stand”), equivalent to ad- + rest. Compare French arrêter (“to stop”).