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لوث

Root entry · 1 derived lemma

حَلَّ مِنْ عِمَامَتِهِ لَوْثًا أَوْ لَوْثَيْنِ ذ He loosed, or undid, a turn, or twist, or two turns, or twists, of his turban. (TA, from a trad.) -A2- لَوْثٌ Strength; power; vigour: (S, K, TA:) as also ↓ لُوثَةٌ, [as in one place,] or ↓ لُوْثَةٌ, [as in another]. (TA.) -A3- نَاقَةٌ ذَاتُ لَوْثٍ, and ↓ لُوثَةٍ A strong she-camel; a she-camel endowed with strength, or vigour: (TA:) or, the former, (L,) or the latter, (S,) a she-camel having much flesh and fat, (S, L,) with which she is bound round: (L:) or, as some say, stupid, unsteady, and hasty; syn. ذات هَوَجٍ: (S:) or, the former, a bulky she-camel; yet her bulkiness does not prevent her being swift. (Lth.) ― -b2- رَجُلٌ ذُو لَوْثٍ A strong man. (TA.) ― -b3- لَوْثٌ, (IAar,) or ↓ لَوْثَةٌ, (As,) Resolution of mind, (IAar, As,) and strength of mind. (IAar.) ― -b4- لَوْتٌ, Evil, as a subst. (K.) ― -b5- لَوْثٌ Mutual suits, or demands, with malevolences, or rancours: (K:) one says, بَيْنَهُمْ لَوْثٌ Between them are mutual suits, &c. (TK.) -A4- لَوْثٌ Offsets of palm-trees. (AHn.) -A5- لَوْثٌ Wounds; syn. حِرَاحَاتٌ. (K.) -A6- لَوْثٌ Weak, incomplete, evidence; (Az, in Msb;) resembling what is termed دَلَالَةٌ, (Az, K,) not complete, or perfect, evidence; so accord. to Esh-Sháfi'ee: (Az.:) it is one person's giving his testimony to the fact of a slain person's declaring, before his death, that a certain person slew him; or two persons giving their testimony to the fact of there having existed enmity between them two, [i. e., the slain person and the person accused of slaying him,] or, of one's having threatened the other; and the like: it is from تَلَوَّثَ as signifying “ it was befouled, or defiled. ” (TA.) ― -b2- See لَوَتٌ, and لُوثَةٌ.

Derived headwords

حَلَّ مِنْ عِمَامَتِهِ لَوْثًا أَوْ لَوْثَيْنِ
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نَاقَةٌ ذَاتُ لَوْثٍ
ذات هَوَجٍ
رَجُلٌ ذُو لَوْثٍ
بَيْنَهُمْ لَوْثٌ