Lane's Lexicon (Edward Lane, 1863)

لَوَثٌ ذ , or ↓ لَوْثٌ, (as in different copies of the S) Languor; flaccidity; in a man. (S.)

لَوِثٌ ذ : see لَائِثٌ.

لِثَةٌ ذ The gum, accord. to some, belongs to this art., because the flesh of the gums is bound (لِيثَ) round the roots of the teeth. (TA.)

لَوْثَةٌ ذ : see لَوْثٌ, and لُوثَةٌ.

لوثَةٌ ذ Languor, and slowness, or tardiness. (S, K.) ― -b2- رَجُلٌ ذُو لُوثَةٍ A man slow, or tardy, and weak. (TA.) ― -b3- لُوثَةٌ Weakness: (IAar, K:) as also ↓ لَوْثٌ. (TA.) ― -b4- Weakness of judgment, and a repetition, or stuttering, (تَلَجْلُجٌ,) in speech. (TA, from a trad.) An impediment in speech. (Msb.) ― -b5- لُونَةٌ (IAar, M, K) and ↓ لَوْثَةٌ (IAar, M) and ↓ لَوْثٌ (Msb) Stupidity; foolishness; paucity of sense. (IAar, M, K, Msb.) ― -b6- لُوثَةٌ A touch, or first affection, of insanity, or diabolical possession. (S, K.) ― -b7- لُوثَةٌ A state of excitement; syn. هَيْجٌ. (S, K.) -A2- لُوثَةٌ Abundance of flesh and fat, (S, K,) in a she-camel. (S.) [See لَوْثٌ.] -A3- لُوثَةٌ A piece of rag collected together, with which one plays. (K.)

لِوَاثٌ ذ : see لُوَاثَةٌ.

لُوَاثَةٌ ذ and ↓ لَوِيثَةٌ A company, an assembly, or a troop, (K,) of men, and of other animals. (TA.) ― -b2- مِنَ النَّاسِ ↓ لَوِيثَةٌ A company, or an assembly, of people of different tribes; (S, K;) like لَبِيثَةٌ. (K.) -A2- لُوَاثَةٌ One who, or a thing which, (الَّذِى: in the TA, الذر:) is befouled, or defiled, (يَتَلَوَّثُ) in anything. (K.) -A3- لُوَاثَةٌ and ↓ لِوَاثٌ (the latter [in the CK لُوَاثٌ] is with kesr, and is mentioned in the L, without the former, on the authority of Fr, TA,) Flour [of wheat, &c.] which is sprinkled upon the table, beneath dough; (K,) to prevent the dough's adhering to the table. (TA.)

لَوِيثَةٌ ذ : see لُوَاثَةٌ.

لَيِّثٌ ذ : see لَائِثٌ. ― -b2- لِحْيَةٌ لَيِّثَةٌ (tropical:) A tangled beard. (TA.) ― -b3- A beard in which half-white hairs are mixed with white: so in the K; but correctly, in which half-white, or grizzly, hairs are mixed with black. (TA.)

وَيْلٌ لِلَّوَّاثِينَ الَّذِينَ يَلُوثُونَ مَعَ البَقَر اـِرْفَعْ يَا غُلَامُ ذ ضَعْ يَا غُلَامُ: respecting these words, occurring in a trad., El-Harbee says, I think the meaning to be, those to whom various kinds of food are carried round about; from اللَّوْثُ, “ winding round ” a turban on the head. (IAth.)

نَبَاتٌ لَائِثٌ ذ , and ↓ لَاثٌ, and ↓ لَيِّثٌ, A tangled plant; (K;) a tangled and luxuriant plant: and in like manner, herbage: لَاثٌ is originally لَوِثٌ, or لَائِثٌ: (TA:) so also a tree. -A2- اللَّائِثُ (and اللَّيْثٌ, TA,) The lion: (K:) from لَوْثٌ “ strength. ” (TA.)

أَلْوَثُ ذ A man slow, or tardy. (M.) ― -b2- دِيمَةٌ لَوْثَاءُ [A lasting, or continuous, and still, rain ] that lays, or mixes, the plants, part upon part, (Lth, K, TA,) like as straw is mixed with the kind of trefoil called قَتّ: (Lth, TA:) but this explanation is disapproved by AM. (TA.) ― -b3- سَحَابَةٌ لَوْثَاءُ A slow cloud: such a cloud is the longest in raining. (AM.) ― -b4- أَلْوَثُ Slow and heavy in tongue; (K;) slow in speech, and heavy in tongue: fem. لَوْثَاءُ, [pl. لُوتٌ]. (TA.) ― -b5- A man weak in mind, or understanding: from لَوْثٌ, as signifying “ weak, incomplete, evidence. ” (Msb.) ― -b6- أَلْوَثُ, like أَثْوَلُ, Stupid; foolish; of little sense; as also ↓ مُلْتَاثٌ: (TA:) stupid, foolish, or of little sense, and cowardly: pl. لُوثٌ. (IAar.) ― -b7- Languid; flaccid: (S, K:) applied to a man. (S.) -A2- Strong; powerful; vigorous. Thus the word bears two contrary significations. (K.)

مَلَاثٌ ذ [ A place of refuge; a refuge ]. [You say,] اـِنَّهُ لَنِعْمَ المَلَاثُ لِلضِّيفَانِ Verily he is an excellent refuge for guests. (TA.) ― -b2- مَلَاثٌ (S, K) and ↓ مِلْوَثٌ (K) (tropical:) One who is a refuge to others; a noble chief; (TA;) a nobleman; (Ks, S, K;) whom others compass, and go round about: (Ks, S:) or so called because the command is [as it were] bound round him; i. e., because affairs are connected with him: (TA:) pl. مَلَاوِثُ and مَلَاوِثَةٌ and مَلَاوِيثُ: (S, K:) the last used by poetic licence. (ISd.)

مِلْوَثٌ ذ : see مَلَاثٌ.

مُلَيَّثٌ ذ A man (S) slow, or tardy, by reason of his fatness. (S, K.) [See also art. ليث.]

[ مَكَانٌ مُلَوَّثٌ ذ and رَأْسٌ مُلَوّثٌ: see مُلَيَّثٌ in art. ليث.]

مُلْتَاثٌ ذ : see أَلْوَثُ.

1 لَاجَهُ ذ , aor. يَلُوجُ, (inf. n. لَوْجٌ, TA,) He turned it about in his mouth. (K.) ― -b2- [لاجت عيناه, His eyes rolled. ]

2 لوّج بِنَا الطَّرِيقُ ذ , inf. n. تَلْوِيجٌ, The road became bending to us, or deviating from a straight course. (K.)

لَوْجَاءُ ذ and ↓ لُوَيْجَاءُ [the latter the dim. of the former] A want; a thing wanted; an object of want: (TA:) from لَاجَهُ as explained above. (K.) ― -b2- مَا فِى صَدْرِهِ حَوْجَاآءُ وَلَا لَوْجاآءُ اـِلَّا قَضَيْتُهَا There was not a want in his bosom but I accomplished it. (TA.) ― -b3- مَالِى فِيهِ حَوْجَاآءُ وَلَا ↓ لَوْجَاآءُ وَلَا حُوَيْجَاآءُ وَلَا لُوَيْجَاآءُ I have no want, [ nor any little want, ] with respect to him, or it. (Lh.) ― -b4- مَالِى عَلَيْهِ حِوَجٌ وَلَا لِوجٌ [ I have no wants which it is incumbent upon him to supply: حَوَجٌ being a pl. of حَاجَةٌ; and لِوَجٌ, irregularly, of لَوْجَاآءُ, in imitation of حِوَجٌ]. (TA.) ― -b5- See also حَوْجَاآءُ, in three places.

لُوَيْجَاءُ ذ : see لَوْجَاءُ.

1 لَاحَ ذ , aor. يَلُوحُ, inf. n. لَوْحٌ, It (a thing) shone; gleamed; glistened. (S.) ― -b2- لَاحَ, (aor. يَلُوحُ, inf. n. لَوْحٌ and لُؤُوحٌ and لَوَحَانٌ; TA;) and ↓ الاح; It (lightning) flashed slightly, not extending sideways in the adjacent tracts of cloud: (S, K:) or ↓ الاح signifies it lighted up what surrounded it. (TA.) ― -b3- لَاحَ, (S, Msb,) aor. يَلُوحُ; (Msb;) inf. n. [لَوْحٌ and] لِيَاحٌ; (IAth;) It appeared: (IAth, Msb:) it (a star) appeared, (S, Msb,) as also ↓ الاح, (S, K,) [ it loomed, ] and shone, gleamed, or glistened; (TA;) as also ↓ الاح: (Msb, TA:) ISk says, لَاحَ سُهَيْل Canopus appeared; (S;) and ↓ الاح it shone and glistened. (S, K.) ― -b4- لاح, and ↓ الاح, He (a man) came forth and became apparent. (A 'Obeyd.) ― -b5- لَاحَ لِى أَمْرُكَ, and ↓ تلوّح, (tropical:) Thine affair became apparent and manifest to me. (A.) ― -b6- لَاحَ الشَّيْبُ فِى رَأْسِهِ Hoariness appeared upon his head. (TA.) ― -b7- لَاحَهُ, aor. يَلُوحُ, He saw him, or it. (K.) ― -b8- لَاحَ اـِلَى كَذَا, aor. يَلُوحُ, He looked at, or towards, such a thing; as a distant fire. (L.) ― -b9- لَاحَهُ بِبَصَرِهِ, aor. يَلُوحُ, inf. n. لَوْحَةٌ, [so in the L,] He saw him, or it, and then he or it became concealed from him. (L.) ― -b10- See 4. -A2- لَاحَ, (S,) aor. يَلُوحُ, (TA,) inf. n. لَوْحٌ (S, K,) and لُوحٌ (K) and لُوَاحٌ (S, K) and لُؤُوحٌ and لَوَحَانٌ; (K;) and ↓ التاح; (S, K;) He thirsted: (S, K;) or he thirsted in the slightest degree: (TA:) or he thirsted quickly. (Lh.) ― -b2- لَاحَهُ, (aor. يَلُوحُ, inf. n. لَوْحٌ, TA,) It (thirst, K, or travel, S, K, and cold, and disease or illness, and grief, TA,) altered him, (S, K,) and made him lean, lank, light of flesh, slender, or lank in the belly; (TA;) as also ↓ لوّحهُ, (K,) inf. n. تَلْوِيحٌ: or the latter signifies it (the heat of fire or of the sun) altered the colour of his skin: (TA:) or both verbs signify it parched, scorched, or burned, and blackened, his skin. (Zj.) الشَّمْسُ ↓ لَوَّحَتْهُ The sun altered him, and scorched, i. e. slightly burned, and changed the colour of, his face; (S;) and in like manner fire, and the hot wind called سَمُوم; as also لَاحَتْهُ. (A.)

2 لوّح ذ , (inf. n. تَلْوِيحٌ, TA,) He heated (S, K) a thing with fire. (S; see MA, and see 1.) ― -b2- لوّحهُ الشَّيْبُ Hoariness altered him; (TA;) rendered him white. (K, TA.) ― -b3- See 1, and 4.

4 أَلْوَحَ See 1 throughout the first half. ― -b2- الاح مِنَ الشَّىْءِ, (inf. n. الاحة, TA,) (tropical:) He (a man) was cautious and fearful of the thing. (S, K. *) -A2- الاح بِثَوْبِهِ, (L,) and به ↓ لوّح, (Lh, S, L,) and به ↓ لاح, (L,) (tropical:) He made a sign with his garment, (S, L,) from a distant place, taking the end of it in his hand, and waving it about, to make it seen by some one whom he desired to see it. (L.) الاح بِسَيْفِهِ; (S, K;) and به ↓ لوّح, (K,) inf. n. تَلْوِيحٌ; (TA:) (tropical:) He made a sign with his sword, (S, K,) and waved it, or moved it about, [ for the purpose above mentioned ]. (TA.) ― -b2- لوّح لِلْكَلْبِ بِرَغِيفٍ فَتَبِعَهُ (tropical:) He made a sign to the dog with a cake of bread, and he followed him. (A.) -A3- الاح بِحَقَِّىِ He went away with, or took away, that which belonged to me. (ISk, S.) -A4- الاحهُ, (inf. n. اـِلَاحَةٌ, TA,) He destroyed him or it. (S, K.)

8 اـِلْتَوَحَ see 1.

10 استلاح ذ He sought, tried, or endeavoured, to see, syn. تَبَصَّرَ, (K,) فِى الأَمْرِ into the affair, or thing. (TA.)

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.)

لُوحٌ ذ (S, K) and ↓ لَوْحٌ, (Lh, K,) but the former is of higher authority, (K,) and the latter is mentioned by none but Lh, (TA,) The air, or atmosphere, (S, K,) between heaven and earth: (S:) the air next to the higher part, or to the clouds, of the sky; syn. سُكَاك: this is its meaning in the phrase لَا أَفْعَلُ ذٰلِكَ وَلَوْ نَزَوْتَ فِى اللُّوحِ [ I will not do that even if thou leap into the air next to the higher part, or to the clouds, of the sky ]. (S.)

اـِبِلٌ لَوْحَى ذ Thirsty camels. (S, K.)

لَيَاحٌ ذ : see لِيَاحٌ.

شَىْءٌ لِيَاحٌ ذ , (S, K,) and ↓ لَيَاحٌ, (K,) A white thing. (S.) The و is changed into ى because of the kesreh before it. (Fr, S.) لَيَاحٌ is extr.; for there is no reason for the change of the و therein into ى, unless for alleviation of the sound. (L.) ― -b2- Also لِيَاحٌ and ↓ لَيَاحٌ Of a shining, or glistening, white hue. (L.) ― -b3- أَبْيَضُ لِيَاحٌ, and ↓ لَيَاحٌ, (tropical:) Intensely white. (K, TA.) ― -b4- Also لِيَاحٌ (S, K) and ↓ لَيَاحٌ (K) The wild bull: (S, K:) so called because of his whiteness. (S.) ― -b5- Also both words, The daybreak, or dawn: (K:) so called for the same reason. (TA.) ― -b6- لَقِيتُهُ بِلِيَاحٍ I met him at the period of the afternoon called العَصْر, when the sun was white. (L.)

لَوَّاحَةٌ لِلْبَشَرِ ذ , [Kur, lxxiv. 29, referring to سَقَرُ,] Burning the [ scarf- ] skin so as to blacken it. (Zj.)

لَوَائِحُ شَىْءٍ ذ [pl. of لَائِحَةٌ] The parts of a thing that are apparent, and that show the signs thereof. (TA.) لَوَائِحُ and ↓ أَلْوَاحٌ The external parts of a thing. (A.) لَوَاحِى الشَّيْبِ The apparent signs of hoariness, occurs in a verse of Khufáf Ibn-Nudbeh, for لَوَائِح الشيب. (TA.) ― -b2- السِّلَاحِ ↓ أَلْوَاحُ Shining, gleaming, or glistening, weapons; such as the sword, (S, K,) end the like, (K,) and the spear-head; (S;) generally meaning swords, because of their whiteness: (ISd:) or, as some say, the cases, or receptacles, in which are the swords together with their scabbards and suspensory belts or strings, because made of boards. (IB.) 'Amr Ibn-Ahmar ElBáhilee says, تُمْسِى كَأَلْوَاحِ السِّلَاحِ وَتُضْ حِى كَا@لْمَهَاةِ صَبِيحَةَ القَطْرِ [ In the evening she is like shining weapons, (so accord. to the S.) or like sword-cases, (accord. to IB,) and in the early part of the day, after sunrise, she is like the wild cow on the morning of, or after, rain ]. IB says, that the poet means, in the evening she is lean, or slender, like a sword-case; but in the morning, like a wild cow, &c. (L.)

مِلْوَحٌ ذ : see مِلْوَاحٌ,

مِلْوَاحٌ ذ Large in the أَلْوَاح, (K,) meaning [the shoulder-blades, or] any of the wide bones of the body: applied to a camel and to a man: (TA:) or having excellent and large الواح: (Sh, AHeyth:) and الواح is said to mean the ذِرَاعَانِ [or two radii ], the سَاقَانِ [or two tibiæ ], and the عَضُدَانِ [or two humeri, or upper bones of the arms ]. (TA.) ― -b2- Tall. (K.) ― -b3- Lean, lank, or light of flesh; or slender, or lank in the belly: (K:) applied alike to a man and a woman: also, a beast of carriage that becomes so quickly: (TA:) also, a woman that quickly becomes lean, or emaciated: (K:) pl. مَلَاوِيحُ. (TA.) ― -b4- مِلْوَاحٌ A beast (S) that quickly becomes thirsty; (S, K;) as also ↓ مِلْوَحٌ (K) and مِلْيَاحٌ; (IAar, K;) the last extr., as though the و were changed into ى because of the kesreh which is near before it, and as though they had imagined a kesreh to the ل. (ISd.) ― -b5- رِيحٌ مِلْوَاحٌ [ A very thirsty wind ]. (TA, voce نَكْبَاآءُ.) -A2- [A kind of decoy-bird. See رَامِقٌ.]

مِلْيَاحٌ ذ : see مِلْوَاحٌ.

مُلَوَّحٌ ذ Altered by fire, or by the sun, or by travel, [ &c. ]: an arrow, before it is furnished with feathers and a head, altered by fire; and in like manner the iron head of an arrow or of a spear, or the like: (TA:) also ↓ مُلْتَاحٌ altered (K) by the sun, or by travel, &c. (TA.)

مُلْتَاحٌ ذ : see مُلَوَّحٌ.

1 لَاذَ بِهِ ذ , aor. يَلُوذُ, (S, A, L, Msb,) inf. n. لَوْذٌ (S, L, K) and لِيَاذٌ (S, A, L, K) and لِوَاذٌ (L, Msb, K) and لَوَاذٌ and لُوَاذٌ, (Msb, K,) He had recourse to it, (a mountain [&c.], Msb,) or him, for refuge or protection or preservation; (S, A, L, Msb;) as also به ↓ لاوذ, inf. n. لِوَاذٌ; (A;) and به ↓ الاذ; (Msb;) sought, or took, refuge in it, or him; (S, L;) and joined himself to him; and sought, desired, implored, or called for, aid, or succour, of him: (L:) he protected, concealed, defended, or fortified himself by it, (L, K,) or him; (L;) as also به ↓ لاوذ, (L,) inf. n. مُلَاوَذَةٌ (L, K) and لِوَاذٌ; (L;) and ↓ الاذ. (L.) ― -b2- لَاذَ بِهِ, (L,) inf. n. as above, in the commencement of the art., (K,) It encompassed, or surrounded, it; (L, K; *) as also ↓ الاذ, (L,) inf. n. اـِلَاذَةٌ. (L, K.) You say, لَاذَ الطَّرِيقُ بِالدَّارِ, and ↓ الاذ, The road encompassed, or surrounded, the house: (L:) or, reached, or extended, to the house: (Msb:) and لَاذَتِ الدَّارُ بِالطَّرِيقِ The house encompassed, or surrounded, the road. (L.) See also 3. ― -b3- لَاذَ بِالقَوْمِ and بِهِم ↓ الاذ, He laboured, or strove, to overcome the people in any way; expl. by the words هى المداورة من حيث ماكان. (T, L.) [Perhaps المداورة is a mistake for المُدَارَاة; see 3: the same phrases being explained in the M by دَاَراهُمْ: but there is a near resemblance between the significations of المداورة and المداراة.]

3 لاوذ القَوْمُ ذ , (S, L,) inf. n. مُلَاوَذَةٌ and لِوَاذٌ, (S, L, K,) with which تَلْوَاذٌ is syn., (K,) The people had recourse, one to another, for refuge or protection or preservation; sought, or took, refuge, one in another; protected, concealed, defended, or fortified, themselves, one by another. (S, L, K. *) Agreeably with this explanation, (as some say, L,) لِوَاذًا is used in the Kur, xxiv. 63: were it from لَاذَ, it would be لِيَاذًا. (S, L.) ― -b2- See 1. ― -b3- لاوذ بِهِمْ, inf. n. مُلَاوَذَةٌ, He went round about them, or encompassed them. (Msb.) See also 1. ― -b4- لاوذهُ, (M, L,) inf. n. مُلَاوَذَةٌ (K) and لِوَاذٌ, (M, L, K,) He circumvented, or deluded, him; (M, L, K; *) syn. رَاوَغَهُ (M, L) inf. n. مُرَاوَغَةٌ. (K.) ― -b5- لاوذهُمْ (M, L) and بِهِمْ ↓ لَاذَ, and ↓ الاذ, (M,) He wheedled, beguiled, or deluded, them; syn. دَارَاهُمْ. (M, L.) لاوذ He eluded, and shunned, or avoided, thee: syn. رَاغَ عَنْكَ, and حَادَ Agreeably with this explanation, or as signifying مراوغة, some render لِوَاذًا in the Kur, xxiv. 63. (Ibn-Is-Seed, TA.) ― -b6- لاوذهُ, (TK,) inf. n. مُلَاوَذَةٌ (K) and لِوَاذٌ, (L, K,) He acted contrarily to, or differently from, or adversely to, him; was, or became contrary to, or different from, or adverse to, him; (L, * K, * TK;) syn. خَالَفَهُ, (TK,) inf. n. خِلَافٌ. (L, K.) Agreeably with this explanation, Zj renders لِوَاذًا in the Kur, xxiv. 63; saying that the meaning which he thus assigns to it is shown to be the true one by the words immediately following. (L.)

4 أَلْوَذَ see 1: ― -b2- and 3. ― -b3- الاذ بِهِ غَيْرَهُ [ He caused another to have recourse to him or it for refuge or protection or preservation; to seek, or take, refuge in him or it; to protect, conceal, defend, or fortify, himself by him or it: or he protected, concealed, defended, or fortified, another by means of him or it ]. (A.) ― -b4- الاذت النَّاقَةُ الظِّلَّ بِخُفِّهَا (tropical:) [ The she-camel covered, or concealed, the shade with her foot ]; meaning that the time of noonday-heat was come. (A.)

لَوْذٌ ذ The side of a mountain; and its circuit: pl. ألْوَاذٌ. (S, A, L, K.) ― -b2- A side, or lateral part or tract, of a country or region: (A:) and of a thing; (TA;) as also ↓ لَوْذَانٌ: (K:) pl. as above. (A.) ― -b3- A place of bending of a valley: pl. as above. (L, K.) ― -b4- هُوَ بِلَوْذِ كَذَا, and كَذَا ↓ بِلَوْذَانِ, He, or it, is in the side of, or part adjacent to, such a place or thing. (L.) ― -b5- هُوَ لَوْذَهُ He is near to him or it. (L.)

لَوْذَانٌ ذ : see لَوْذٌ.

لَوْذَانِيَّةٌ ذ , (as in some copies of the K,) or لَوَذَانِيَّةٌ, (as in others and in the TA,) Circumvention; delusion; syn. مُرَاوَغَةٌ. (K.) See 3.

مَلَاذٌ ذ and ↓ مِلْوَذَةٌ [the latter thus in the K and accord. to the TA; but in the TT, مَلْوَذَة; and in the L, without the first vowel-sign;] A place to which one has recourse for refuge, protection, preservation, or concealment; a place of refuge; a refuge; (TA;) a fortress; a fortified place; a castle. (L, K.)

مَِلْوَذَةٌ ذ : see مَلَاذٌ.

خَيْرٌ مُلَاوِذٌ ذ (tropical:) Little good: (S:) or good that comes not save after severe toil or labour: occurring in a verse of El-Katámee: you say, خَيْرُ بَنِى فُلَانٍ مُلَاوِذٌ The good of the sons of such a one comes not save after severe toil or trouble to procure it. (ISk, T, L.)

تَلْوَاذٌ ذ : see 3.

لَوْزٌ ذ [The almond; or almonds; ] the fruit of a certain tree; (Msb, TA;) well known; (A, Msb, K;) abundant in the countries of the Arabs; said by some to be a species of مِزْج, which is that whereof the edible part is not attained save by breaking; by others said to be bruised, or brayed, مِزْج; and also called قُمْرُوصٌ: it is of two kinds, sweet and bitter: (TA:) the sweet is of moderate temperature, beneficial to the chest and the lungs and the bladder, ( by reason of its soft nature, TA,) and the eating thereof, shelled, with sugar, augments the marrow and brain, and fattens: the bitter is hot in the third degree, opens stoppages of the nose, clears away [ the spots in the skin called ] نَمَش, and stills pain, (K [but omitted in the CK] and TA,) when it [app. meaning its oil ] is drunk, and when dropped into the ear; (TA;) and it relaxes the bowels, and causes sleep, (K, TA,) when the soles of the feet are anointed with it, and when it is introduced into the nose; (TA;) and it is diuretic: (K, TA:) it is an Arabic word: (Msb, TA:) a coll. gen. n.: (TA:) n. un. with ة. (S, Msb, K.) -A2- [Hence,] اللَّوْزَتَانِ (tropical:) [ The amygdalæ of the fauces; also called the tonsils; ] two pieces of flesh in the two sides of the fauces. (A, TA.) ― -b2- (tropical:) The two sockets of the hips, where the heads of the thigh-bones are inserted. (A, TS, TA.)

لَوَّازٌ ذ A seller of لَوْز [or almonds ]. (K.)