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)
to move or go around completely