لوح

لَوْحٌ ذ A look; syn. نَظْرَةٌ; [or rather a glance, or light or quick look; ] like لَمْحَةٌ. (K.) -A2- See لُوحٌ -A3- Any broad, or wide, and thin, thing, such as a board or plank or the like, of wood or of bone: (T, M, Msb, K:) pl. أَلْوَاحٌ, and pl. pl. أَلَاوِيحُ. (K.) A word of this kind has not a pl. of the measure أَفْعُلٌ, because dammeh to the و is disliked. (Sb.) ― -b2- أَلْوَاحٌ i. q. لَوَائِحُ, q. v. ― -b3- The scapula or shoulder-blade, (T, S, Msb, K,) when it is written upon, or inscribed. (T, Msb, K.) ― -b4- Any wide bone: (S, Msb:) or any bone of the body, except the bones called قَصَب of the arms and legs. (Msb.) See also مِلْوَاحٌ. ― -b5- لَمْ يَبْقَ مِنْهُ اـِلَّا الالواح (tropical:) There remained of him nothing but the wide bones. Said of one that is lean, or emaciated. (A.) ― -b6- لَوْحُ الكَتِفِ The smooth part of the shoulder-blade, where its projecting part (عَيْر [so I read for غير, in the L]) terminates, in the upper portion. (L.) ― -b7- لَوْحٌ That [ meaning a tablet ] upon which one writes. (S.) ― -b8- كَتَبْنَا لَهُ فِى الأَلْوَاحِ [ We wrote for him upon the tablets, or tables ]. (Kur vii. 142.) They are said to have been two tablets; but it is allowable to call two tablets الواح. (Zj.) ― -b9- اللَّوْحُ المَحْفُوظُ, mentioned in the Kur, [chap. lxxxv. last verse, The Preserved, or Guarded, Tablet, whereon are said to be inscribed all the divine decrees; ] (tropical:) the depository of the decrees, or willed events, ordained by God: (TA:) or i. q. أُمُّ الكِتَابِ: or a light which appears to the angels, showing to them the things which they are commanded to do, and which they obey. (Msb.)