لغز

لُغَزٌ ذ (S, A, K) and ↓ لُغْزٌ and ↓ لَغْزٌ (K) and ↓ لَغَزٌ and ↓ لُغَيْزَاآءُ (TA) A winding, or tortuous, excavation or burrow: this is the primary signification: (IAar, in explanation of لُغْزٌ:) the burrow of a jerboa, which he makes between the قَاصِعَاآء and نَافِقَاآء, burrowing strait downwards, and then turning crosswise to the right and left, so that his place becomes concealed: (S, K, * TA:) or the burrow of the [ lizard called ] ضَبّ, and of the jerboa, (A, K,) and of the rat or mouse: (K:) pl. [of the first four] أَلْغَازٌ. (S, A.) ― -b2- Hence, (K,) أَلْغَازٌ (tropical:) Winding, or tortuous, roads, or ways, perplexing to him who pursues them. (A, * K.) You say, اـِلْزَمِ الجَادَّةَ وَاـِيَّاكَ وَالأَلْغَازَ (tropical:) [ Keep thou to the main road, and avoid the winding, or tortuous, by-ways, which perplex him who pursues them ]. (A, TA.) ― -b3- Hence also, (S,) لُغَزٌ (S, A, Sgh, Msb, K [omitted in the copies of the K consulted by the author of the TA, through inadvertence, as he observes, but mentioned in the CK,]) and ↓ لُغْزٌ [which is now the most common form] and ↓ لُغُزٌ and ↓ لَغَزٌ (Sgh, K) and ↓ لُغَّيْزَى, (S, K,) with teshdeed to the غ, and not a dim., because the ى of the dim. does not occupy a fourth place, but like خُضَّارَى and شُقَّارَى, (S,) and ↓ لُغَيْزَاآءُ, (Az, K,) like حُمَيْرَاآءُ, (K,) [and app. ↓ لُغَّيْزَاآءُ also, with teshdeed, (see what follows,)] and ↓ أُلْغُوزَةٌ, (K,) (tropical:) An enigma; a riddle; enigmatical, or obscure, language: (S, A, K:) or parabolical language: (Msb:) pl. (of the first four, K, TA) أَلْغَازٌ. (S, A, Msb, K.) And in like manner, يَمِينٌ ↓ لُغَّيْزَاآءُ, accord. to Z, with teshdeed to the غ mentioned by Sb with خُلَّيْطَاآءُ, or, accord. to Az, without teshdeed, [لُغَيْزَاآءُ,] which he regards as the dim. of the form with teshdeed, like as سُكَيْتٌ is of سُكَّيْتٌ, (tropical:) An oath in which is equivocation, or ambiguity, and concealment [ by mental reservation or otherwise ]. (TA.)