Lane's Lexicon (Edward Lane, 1863)

8 التفت ذ and ↓ تلفّت, (S, K,) [ He looked aside, or about, ] the latter of which signifies more than the former, (S,) are from لَفَتَهُ عَنْ رَأْيِهِ: (K:) you say, التفت اـِلَى الشَّىْءِ, and اـِلَيْهِ ↓ تلفّت, He turned his face towards the thing. (TA.) ― -b2- [Hence, ما التفت اـِلَيْهِ He regarded not him or it; he paid no regard, or attention, to him or it. (The lexicons, &c., passim.)] ― -b3- التفت بِوَجْهِهِ يَمِينًا وَشِمَالًا He turned his face to the right and left. (Msb.)

لِفْتٌ ذ The half of a thing; syn. شقٌّ: and its side; syn. صِغْوٌ: (S, K;) i. e., جَانِبٌ. (TA.) ― -b2- لَا تَلْتَفِتْ لِفْتَ فُلَانٍ Look not towards such a one. (S.) -A2- A cow, or bull; syn. بَقَرَةٌ. (K.) -A3- A woman who is stupid, foolish, or of little sense. (K.) See also أَلْفَتُ. -A4- The vulva of a lioness. (K.) -A5- [A name now given in Egypt to the Brassica napus of Linn., a edulis; (Delile, Flor. Aeg., No. 597;) the rape; ] i. q. سَلْجَمٌ [a name given in Egypt to the Brassica napus of Linn., β oleifera: (Delile, ubi supra, No. 598:)] (S, K:) Az. says, “ I have not heard it from any person confided in for accuracy, and know not whether it be Arabic or not: ” (TA:) Ibn-El-Kubbee asserts it to be a Nabathean word. (MF.)

لَفَتٌ ذ The having one of his horns twisted upon, or over, the other. Said of a he-goat. (S.)

لُفَتَةٌ ذ A man who beats ( much TA) his camels or sheep or goats, not caring which of them he strikes. (K.)

لَفَاتٌ ذ : see أَلْفَتُ.

لَفُوتٌ ذ A woman who looks aside much, or often, at things. (TA.) ― -b2- A woman who, when she hears a man speak, looks aside towards him. ('Abd-el-Melik Ibn-'Omar.) ― -b3- A woman whose eye does not remain fixed towards one place, the object of whose care is that thou shouldst be heedless of her, and that she may make signs with her eyes, or the like, to another. (Th, K.) ― -b4- A woman who has a husband, and who has a child by another husband, (S, K,) and who therefore turns her regard much towards her child, (S,) and is occupied by him so as to be diverted from her husband. (TA.) ― -b5- A she-camel that is unquiet (ضَجُورٌ) on the occasion of her being milked, (K,) that looks aside at the milker, and bites him; wherefore he strikes her with his hand, and thereupon she yields her milk: this is the case when her young one has died: whence this epithet is proverbially applied to him who is disobedient. (TA.) ― -b6- Difficult, or stubborn, of disposition. (K.) But in the S is said what is at variance with this. (TA.) See لَفَاتٌ, mentioned with أَلْفَتُ, ― -b7- Accord. to some, A woman in whom is crookedness and contraction; expl. by التى فيها التواء وانقباض. (TA.) ― -b8- A woman went to calumniate, or slander. (A in art. خفت.)

لَفِيتَةٌ ذ [ A certain kind of gruel ] made by straining water [or juice, or a decoction, ] of the white colocynth, then putting it into a stone cookingpot, and cooking it until it has become thoroughly done and thickened, and then sprinkling flour upon it: (AHn:) or thickened عَصِيدَة: (IAth, K:) or thick عصيدة (S) of هَبِيد, i. e. حَنْظَل, [or colocynth ]: (TA:) so called because it is stirred about and over لِأَنَّهَا تُلْفَتُ أَىْ تُلْوَى: (S:) [see لَفَتَ شَيْئًا:] or broth resembling حَيْس: (K:) i. q. عَفِيتَةٌ. (TA, art. عفت.) [See also وَطِيئَة.]

أَلْفَتُ ذ Strong-handed, who hoists, or wrings, him who strives, or grapples, with him. (TA.) ― -b2- A he-goat having crooked horns. (TA.) لَفْتَاءُ A she-goat having crooked horns. (K.) ― -b3- A he-goat having one of his horns twisted (S, K) upon, or over the other. (S.) ― -b4- لَفْتَاءُ A woman having distorted eyes; syn. حَوْلَاءُ. (K.) ― -b5- أَلْفَتُ (in the dial. of Keys, S) Stupid; foolish; of little sense; (S, K;) like أَعْفَتُ (S) [and أَعْفَكُ]: fem. لَفْتَاءُ: [see also لِفْتٌ:] so too ↓ لَفَاتٌ: (K:) or this signifies stupid, foolish, or of little sense, and of difficult, or stubborn disposition: (S:) [see also لَفُوتٌ:] or, accord. to A 'Obeyd, as mentioned in a marginal note in a copy of the S, ↓ لَفَاتٌ and its syn. هَفَاتٌ are correctly written لَفَاةٌ and هَفَاةٌ, for in a case of pause they are pronounced لَفَاهْ and هَفَاهْ: see هَفَاتٌ. (TA.) ― -b6- (In the dial. of Temeem, S,) Left-handed; who works with the left hand; (S, K;) as also أَلْفَكُ. (TA.)

المُتَلَفِّتَةُ ذ The highest bone in the place where the head joins the neck. (L.)

10 استلفث مَا عِنْدَهُ ذ He elicited, and exhausted, (اـِسْتَنْبَطَ وَا@سْتَقْصَى,) what [information, &c.] he had, or possessed. (K.) ― -b2- استلفث الرِّعْىَ He consumed the whole of the pasture, leaving nothing of it. (K, TA.) ― -b3- استلفث حَاجَتَهُ He accomplished his want. (K.) ― -b4- استلفث الخَبَرَ He concealed the news. (K.)

أَلْفَثُ ذ Stupid; foolish; of little sense: (K:) like أَلْفَتُ. (TA.)

4 أَلْفَجَ ذ and أُلْفِجَ He (a man) clave to the ground by reason of sorrow, grief, or solicitude, or of want. (L.) ― -b2- الفج, inf. n. اـِلْفَاجٌ, He, or it, constrained, compelled, or necessitated, a person, to have recourse to one, or to others, not of his family; (K;) constrained him to beg of such. (L.) ― -b3- أَلْفَجَنِى اـِلَى ذٰلِكَ الاـِضْطِرَارُ Necessity constrained me to have recourse to that. (AZ.) ― -b4- أَلْفَجَ, [not أُلْفِجَ, as might be thought from the signification of the part. n. مُلْفَجٌ,] (inf. n. اـِلْفَاجٌ; S;) and ↓ استلفج; (L:) He became a bankrupt; syn. أَفْلَسَ: (S, K:) he was, or became, poor: (TA:) he became destitute, possessing nothing. (A 'Obeyd.)

10 استلفج ذ : see 4. ― -b2- Also, He was, or became, constrained to have recourse to a thing: or was in need. (TA.)

لَفْجٌ ذ Abasement; abjectness. (IAar, K.)

لُفْجٌ ذ The channel of a torrent. (L.)

مُلْفَجٌ ذ (S, K) and ↓ مُلْفِجٌ (ISk) and ↓ مُسْتَلْفَجٌ (K) or مُسْتَلْفِجٌ (as in the L.) A man in a state of bankruptcy: a bankrupt; syn. مُفْلِسٌ: (S, K:) or the former, poor: (ISk:) or a bankrupt and in debt: (IAth:) or destitute; possessing nothing: (A 'Obeyd:) the first extr. [with respect to rule], (S, K,) like مُحْصَنٌ from أَحْصَنَ, and مُسْهَبَ from أَسْهَبَ. (S.) [See مُسْهَبٌ.]

مُلْفِجٌ ذ : see مُلْفَجٌ.

مُسْتَلْفَجٌ ذ , (as in the K,) or ↓ مُسْتَلْفِجٌ, (as in the L [and this latter I think the correct mode of writing the word in all the senses here explained, for I do not find it noted as extr. with respect to rule like مُلْفَجٌ,]) [part. n. of 10, q. v.: and] i. q. مُلْفَجٌ, q. v. (K.) ― -b2- One whose heart forsakes him, or fails him, by reason of fear, or fright. (K.) ― -b3- Cleaving to the ground by reason of emaciation, (K,) or of sorrow, grief, or solicitude, or of want; as also ملفج [i. e. مُلْفِجٌ and مُلْفَجٌ: see 4]. (TA.)

مُسْتَلْفِجٌ ذ : see مُسْتَلْفَجٌ.

1 لَفَحَتْهُ النَّارُ ذ , (S, M, K,) aor. لَفَحَ , (M,) inf. n. لَفْحٌ and لَفَحَانٌ, (M, K,) The fire smote, or hurt, his face; as also لفحت وَجْهَهُ: (M, O:) the fire burned him; (TA;) as also نفحته النار بِحَرِّهَا; (S, K;) and in like manner the hot wind called سَمُوم: (S:) لَفَحَتْ and نَفَحَتْ are syn., except that the effect of النَّفْح is greater than that of اللَّفْح: (Zj:) or لَفْحٌ relates to a hot wind; and نَفْحٌ, to a cold, or cool, wind: (As, S:) you also say لفحته السَّمُوم meaning the سموم blew in his face. (L.) ― -b2- Also لَفَحَهُ, aor. لَفَحَ , He smote, or struck, him, with a sword, (S, K,) lightly, or slightly: you say لَفَحْتُهُ بِالسَّيْفِ لَفْحَةً I struck him with the sword a light, or slight, blow. (S.)

أَصَابَهَ لفْحٌ مِنْ حَرُورٍ وَسَمُومٍ ذ A burning gust of hot night-wind, and of hot day-wind, smote him. (L.) ― -b2- أَصَابَهُ مِنَ الحَرِّ لَفْحٌ وَمِنَ البَرْدِ نَفْحٌ [ A blast of heat smote him, and a blast of cold ]. (A.) ― -b3- You say also لَوَافِحُ السَّمُوِم [pl. of ↓ لَافِحَةٌ, and meaning Burning blasts of the سموم]. (S, K in art. سفع.)

لَفْحَةٌ ذ A light, or slight, blow with a sword. (S.)

لُقَّاحٌ ذ A certain well known plant, (K,) of the kind termed يَقْطِينِىٌّ, (L,) which people smell, (S.) yellow, and of sweet odour, (A, L,) resembling the بَاذِنْجَان (S, A, K,) when it becomes yellow; (S, A;) [accord. to Golius, app. on the authority of Ibn-Beytár, the same which the Syrians and Egyptians call شَمَّامٌ, q. v.]. ― -b2- Also, The fruit, or produce, (ثَمَرَة,) of the يَبْرُوح [or mandrake, which is called by this name (يبروح) in the present day]; (K;) thus correctly written, with the ى before the ب [not ببروح, as in the CK and some MS. copies]. (TA.) [It seems that the application of the term لفّاح to both the mandrake and the شمّام has led to confusion, and occasioned Linnæus to call the latter “ cucumis dudaim. ” See also يَبْرُوحٌ, and مَغْدٌ.]

لَافِحَةٌ ذ : see لَفْحٌ.

1 لَفَظَهُ ذ , (S, M, Msb, K,) and لَفَظَ بِهِ, (M, K,) aor. لَفِظَ , (S, M, Msb, K,) inf. n. لَفْظٌ; (T, S, M, Msb;) and لَفِظَهُ, and لَفِظَ بِهِ, aor. لَفِظَ ; (Ibn- Abbád, K.) but the former is that which is commonly known; (TA;) He ejected it; cast it forth; [ disgorged it; ] (T, S, M, Msb, K;) namely a thing that was in his mouth; (T;) his spittle, &c.; (Msb;) from (مِنْ) his mouth. (S, TA.) And لَفَظَ alone, [elliptically,] He ejected what had entered between his teeth, of food. (TA.) You say also, لَفَظَتِ الحَيَّةُ سَمَّهَا (tropical:) [ The serpent ejected its poison. ] (TA.) And لَفَظَ عَصْبَهُ, lit. He ejected his spittle that stuck and dried in his mouth; meaning (tropical:) he died; (T, TA;) as also لَفَظَ نَفْسَهُ, aor. لَفِظَ , inf. n. as above; (M, TA;) and لَفَظَ alone. (M, K.) And جَاآءَ وَقَدْ لَفَظَ لِجَامَهُ, [as to the letter and the meaning like جَاآءَ وَقَدْ دَلَقَ لِجَامَهُ,] (tropical:) He came harassed, or distressed, by thirst and fatigue. (Ibn-'Abbád, M, Z, K.) And لَفَظَتِ الرَّحِمُ مَاآءَ الفَحْلِ (tropical:) The womb ejected the seminal fluid of the stallion. (TA.) And لَفَظَهُ البَحْرُ (assumed tropical:) The sea cast it forth upon the shore; (Msb, TA;) namely a fish; (TA;) or a beast. (Msb.) And لَفَظَ البَحْرُ بِمَا فِيهِ اـِلَى الشُّطُوطِ (assumed tropical:) The sea cast forth what was within it to the shores. (M.) And قَاآءَتِ الأَرْضُ أُكْلَهَا وَلَفَظَتْ خَبِيْئَهَا (tropical:) The earth disclosed her vegetables, and revealed her hidden things. (TA in this art. and in art. قيأ.) And لَفَظَتِ الأَرْضُ المَيِّتَ (assumed tropical:) The earth cast forth the dead; (T, Msb;) did not receive, or admit, the dead. (M.) And لَفَظَتِ البِلَادُ أَهْلَهَا (tropical:) [ The countries cast forth their inhabitants ]. (TA.) ― -b2- [Hence,] لَفَظَ بِالكَلَامِ, (S, K,) and بِقَوْلٍ, (Msb,) and بِالشَّىْءِ, (M,) and لَفَظَ القَوْلَ, (TA,) aor. لَفِظَ , inf. n. لَفْظٌ, (M,) He uttered, spoke forth, or pronounced, (S, M, Msb, K,) the saying, (S, K,) and a saying, (Msb,) and the thing; (M;) as also بِهِ ↓ تلفّظ. (S, Msb, K.) It is said in the Kur, [l. 17,] مَا يَلْفِظُ مِنْ قَوْلٍ (tropical:) [ He doth not utter a saying ]: where Kh. reads ما يَلْفَظُ: both forms of the verb being used in this sense [as is implied in the K.]. (TA.)

5 تَلَفَّظَ see 1, last signification.

لَفْظٌ ذ , originally an inf. n., (S, Msb,) is used as a subst., (Msb,) signifying (tropical:) An expression; i. e. a word; [more precisely termed ↓ لَفْظَةٌ;] and also a collection of words, a phrase, or sentence; (I'Ak &c.;) [each considered as such, without regard to its meaning; a word itself; and a phrase itself; ] the latter also called لَفْظٌ مُرَكَّبٌ, a compound expression, an expression composed of two or more words: (Expos. of the Ajroomeeyeh, by the sheykh Khálid; &c.:) and ↓ مَلْفَظٌ signifies the same (TA:) pl. of the former أَلْفَاظٌ; (S, Msb;) dim. أُلَيْفَاظٌ: (Har., p. 593) and of the latter مَلَافِظ. (TA.) [Hence, لَفْظًا وَمَعْنًى (tropical:) With respect to the word, or words, or wording, and the meaning: and with respect to the actual order of the words; and the order of the sense. And لَفْظًا وَرُتْبَةً (tropical:) With respect to the actual order of the words, and the order of the proper relative places. And لَفْظًا وَتَقْدِيرًا (tropical:) Literally and virtually. And لَا وَاحِدَ لَهُ مِنْ لَفْظِهِ (tropical:) It has no singular formed of the same radical letter: i. e., it has no proper singular: said of a word such as قَوْمٌ and رَهْطٌ &c.] ― -b2- See also لُفَاظٌ.

لَفْظَةٌ ذ : see لَفْظٌ.

لَفْظِىٌّ ذ [ Of, or relating to, a word, or collection of words, verbal: ] opposed to مَعْنَوِىٌّ.

لَفَظَانٌ ذ Loquacious; a great talker: but this is a vulgar word. (TA.)

لُفْاظٌ ذ [app. a coll. gen. n., of which ↓ لُفَاظَةٌ, q. v., is the n. un., as seems to be indicated in the S, TA,] What is cast, or thrown, away; (M, TA;) as also ↓ لَفْظٌ: the latter on the authority of IB. (TA.)

لِفَاظٌ ذ (assumed tropical:) Leguminous plants [ put forth by the earth ]. (Sgh, K.)

لَفِيظٌ ذ and ↓ مَلْفُوظٌ Ejected; cast forth. (M, K.) ― -b2- (tropical:) [ Uttered, spoken forth, or pronounced. ]

لُفَاظَةٌ ذ What is ejected, or cast forth, from the mouth: (S, K:) such as particles of the toothstick, or stick with which the teeth are cleaned: (TA:) and what is cast, or thrown, away, of food: pl. لُفَاظَاتٌ: (Har, p.&#خ661؛&#خ668؛&#خ665؛ :) see also لُفَاظٌ. ― -b2- Also, (tropical:) A remain, remainder, or residue, of a thing, (K, TA,) little in quality. (TA.)

لَافِظٌ ذ [act. part. n. of 1: fem. with ة]. You say, فُلاَنٌ لَافِظٌ (tropical:) Such a one is dying. (TA.) ― -b2- اللَّافِظَةٌ The she-goat, (T, S, M, K,) or ewe; (M, K;) because she is called to be milked, while ruminating, and thereupon ejects her cud, and comes joyfully to be milked: (T, * S, M, * K: *) or the bird that feeds her young one from her beak; because she puts forth what is in her inside and gives it for food: (S, K *:) or the domestic cock; (S, K;) because he takes the grain with his beak, and does not eat it, but throws it to the hen: (K:) or (tropical:) the mill; (T, S, M, K;) because it casts forth what it grinds, (T, TA,) of the flour: (TA:) or (tropical:) the sea; (S, M, K;) as also لَافِظَةُ, determinate [as a proper name]; (K;) because it casts forth (S, M) what is in it, (M,) [namely] ambergris and jewels: (S:) in this last sense, and as applied to the cock, (Sgh,) the ة is to give intensiveness to the signification. (S, Sgh.) It has one or another of these significations in the saying, اسْمَحُ مِنْ لَافِظَةٍ [ More liberal, or bountiful, than a she-goat, &c.,] (T, S, K,) and أَسْخَى مِنْ لَافِظَةٍ (M, TA) and أَجْوَدُ مِنْ لَافِظَةٍ [which mean the same]. (TA.) لَافِظَةٌ also signifies Any bird that feeds his female, (T,) or that feeds his young bird, (M, K,) from his beak. (T, M, K.) And اللَّافِظَةُ (tropical:) The earth; because it casts forth the dead. (TA.) And (tropical:) The present world; because it casts forth those who are in it to the world to come. (T, K, TA.)

مَلْفَظٌ ذ : see لَفْظٌ.

مَلْفُوظٌ ذ : see لَفِيظٌ.

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2 لقّبهُ بِكَذَا ذ , inf. n. تَلْقِيبٌ, He called him, or named him, by such a by-name, or surname, or nickname; he surnamed him, or nicknamed him, so. (S, K.) See لَقَبٌ. ― -b2- لقّب الاـِسْمَ بِالفِعْلِ [i. e., بِالفَاءِ وَالعَيْنِ وَاللَّامِ] He called the noun by an appellation in which its radical letters were represented by ف, ع, and ل; this appellation being its measure; as when جَوْرَبٌ is called فَوْعَلٌ. (TA.) [But this signification belongs to the conventional language of lexicology and grammar.]

5 تلقّب بِكَذَا ذ He was by-named, surnamed, or nicknamed, so. (S, K.) See لَقَبٌ.

3 لَاقَبَهُ ذ , inf. n. مُلَاقَبَةٌ, He called him by a byname, surname, or nickname; the latter doing to him the like. (TA.)

6 تَلَاقَبُوا ذ They called one another by by-names, surnames, or nicknames. (TA.)

لَقَبٌ ذ A by-name; a surname; a nickname; syn. نَبَزٌ: (S, K:) a name of reproach; an opprobrious appellation: in this sense forbidden: (Msb:) it is said in the Kur, xlix., 11, لَا تَنَابَزُوا بِا@لْأَلْقَابِ Call not one another by nicknames; i. e., let not one of you call another by a name which he dislikes: (Jel:) also a by-name, or surname, which is not one of reproach: such are the surnames given to certain Imáms; الأَنْمَشُ and الأَخْفَشُ and الاَّعْرَجُ and the like; and such are not forbidden, because by them is not meant reproach, or disparagement, but they are meant as mere appellations given with the approval of the persons to whom they are applied. (Msb.) [A لَقَب is distinguished from a كُنْيَة, q. v.] Pl. أَلْقَابٌ. (S, K.) ― -b2- [لَقَبُ ا@سْمٍ The appellation given to a noun by substituting ف, ع, and ل for its radical letters. See 2.]

1 لَقَثَ ذ , [aor. لَقُثَ ,] inf. n. لَقْثٌ; and ↓ لقّث, inf. n. تَلْقِيثٌ; He mixed [a thing]. (K.) [The former verb is as above accord. to the TK: but it seems to be implied in the K that it is لَقِثَ, aor. لَقِثَ, as well in the above sense as in that here following.] ― -b2- لَقِثَ, aor. لَقِثَ , inf. n. لَقْثٌ, He took [a thing] quickly, and altogether. (K.) But this is not of established authority. (TA.)

2 لَقَّثَ see 1.

1 لَقِحَتْ ذ , (S, Msb, K,) aor. لَقَحَ , (Msb, K,) inf. n. لَقَحٌ (S, Msb, K,) and لَقْحٌ (K) and لَقَاحٌ; (S, K;) and لُقِحَتْ بِالْوَلَدِ, in the pass. form; (Msb;) She (a camel) conceived, or became pregnant; (Msb, TA;) received [ into her womb ] the seed of the stallion. (K.) ― -b2- لَقِحَتْ (inf. n. لَقَحٌ, syn. حَبَلٌ, K, TA: in the CK جَبَلٌ:) (tropical:) She (a woman) conceived, or became pregnant. (Sh, T, L.) ― -b3- اِمْرَأَةٌ سَرِيعَةُ اللَّقَحِ A woman quick in conceiving, or becoming pregnant. The like is said with respect to any female. Perhaps the word thus used has this signification properly, or perhaps tropically. (TA.) ― -b4- أَسَرَّتْ لَقَحًا, and لَقَاحًا, She (a camel) concealed her having conceived, or become pregnant: i. e., she did not show signs of her having conceived by raising her tail and elevating her nose. (L.) ― -b5- لَقِحَتِ النَّخِيلُ, or لُقِحَت, (as in different copies of the S,) (tropical:) [ The palm-trees became fecundated by the process termed اـِلْقَاحٌ: see 4]: and of a single palm-tree (نَخْلَةٌ) you say لَقِحَتْ, or لُقِحَتْ, without teshdeed; (so, again, in different copies of the S;) and ↓ تَلَقَّحَتْ. (S, art. أبر) ― -b6- لَقِحَ العِجَافُ, inf. n. لَقَحٌ, (tropical:) The lands in which was no good became fecundated. (L.) [See also أَعْجَفُ.] ― -b7- لَقِحَتِ الحَرْبُ: see a verse cited voce عن.

2 لَقَّحَ see 4.

4 القح الفَحْلُ النَّاقَةَ ذ , (S, Msb,) inf. n. اـِلْقَاحٌ; (Msb;) and ↓ لقّحها, (A,) [inf. n. تَلْقِيحٌ;] The stallion-camel made the she-camel to conceive, or become pregnant; impregnated her; got her with young. (Msb.) ― -b2- القح النَّخْلَةَ, inf. n. اـِلْقَاحٌ, [and quasi-inf. n. لَقَاحٌ, q. v.; et vide infra;] and ↓ لقّحها, inf. n. تَلْقِيحٌ; (S, Msb, A, K;) and ↓ لَقَحَهَا, inf. n. لَقْحٌ; (K;) (tropical:) He fecundated the palm-tree by means of the ↓ لَقَاح, or spadix of the male tree, which is bruised, or brayed, and sprinkled [ upon the spadix of the female ]: (A:) or, by inserting a stalk of a raceme of the male tree into the spathe [ of the female, after shaking off the pollen of the former upon the spadix of the female; for such is the general practice]: this is done in the following manner: you leave the spathe of the [female] palm-tree two or three nights after its bursting open: then you take a stalk of a raceme of the male tree, which is best if old, of the preceding year, and insert it into the spadix [of the female, after shaking off the pollen, as above mentioned]; and this you do according to a certain measure: it should not be done but by a man acquainted with the manner of proceeding in this case; for if he be ignorant, and do too much, he turns the spathe, and mars it; and if he do too little, many of the dates produced will be without stones; and if he do it not at all to the palm-tree, he will derive no advantage from the spadix thereof that year: (L:) ↓ لَقَحٌ is the name of that which is taken from the male palm-tree (الفُحَّال: so in the L: in the K, الفَحْل:) to be inserted in the other, [ namely the spathe of the female ]. (L, K.) [See also لَقَاحٌ. In the CK, for اـِسْمُ مَا أُخِذَ الخ, we find اسم ماءٍ اخذ الخ, giving a different and false meaning.] جَاآءَنَا زَمَنُ اللَّقَاحِ, or ↓ التَّلْقِيحِ, The time of the fecundating of the palm-trees has come to us. (L.) ― -b3- أَلْقَحَتِ الرِّيحُ السَّحَابَ (S) (tropical:) The wind impregnated, or fecundated, the cloud, or clouds; (L;) and in like manner, القحت الرِّيَاحُ الشَّجَرَ وَنَحْوَهُ [ The winds fecundated the trees ] (K) [ and the like ]. (TA.) ― -b4- القح بَيْنَهُمْ شَرًّا (tropical:) He engendered, or caused, evil, or mischief, between them. (A.) ― -b5- عَقْلَهُ ↓ جَرَّبَ الأُمُورَ فَلَقَّحَتْ (tropical:) [ He became experienced in affairs, and they fecundated his intellect ]. (A.) ― -b6- النَّظَرُ فِى عَوَاقِبِ ا@لْأُموُرِ ا@لْعُقُولِ ↓ تَلْقِيحُ (tropical:) [ Consideration of the results, or issues, of things is ( a means of ) fecundation of the intellects ]. (A.) ― -b7- لَا تُلْقِحْ سِلْعَتَكَ بِالأَيْمَانِ (tropical:) [ Make not thy merchandise productive of a high price by means of oaths ]. (A.)

5 تلقّحت ذ She (a camel) pretended that she had conceived, or become pregnant, ( by raising her tail, in order that the stallion might not approach her, TA,) when this was not really the case. (Fr, S, K.) ― -b2- See 1.

10 استلقحت النَّخْلَةُ ذ (tropical:) The palm-tree attained to the proper period for its being fecundated by the process termed اـِلْقَاحٌ: [see 4: or required to be so fecundated ]. (K.)