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لءى

Root entry · 11 derived lemmas

This root primarily concerns concepts of hardship, difficulty, and delay. It extends to meanings of poverty, a wild ox, and a personal name.

Derived headwords

لَاءَverb
  1. 1.
    to delayboth

    To act with slowness or procrastination.

لَاءَىverb
  1. 1.
    to delayclassical

    To be slow or tardy in action.

لَأْيًاnoun
  1. 1.
    hardshipboth

    A state of severe difficulty or distress.

  2. 2.
    delayclassical

    The act of delaying or being delayed.

تَأَىّverb
  1. 1.
    to delayclassical

    To act slowly or with delay.

تَأَىّnoun
  1. 1.
    delayclassical

    The state of being slow or tardy.

تَأَىّverb
  1. 1.
    to become bankruptclassical

    To become impoverished or financially ruined.

لَأْوَاءnoun
  1. 1.
    hardshipboth

    Severe difficulty, distress, or hardship, especially in living conditions.

لَاءٍnoun
  1. 1.
    wild oxclassical

    A wild bull or ox.

  2. 2.
    hardshipclassical

    A difficult or trying circumstance.

أَلْآءnoun
  1. 1.
    wild oxenclassical

    Plural of a wild ox.

لَآةnoun
  1. 1.
    he hid, he concealed himselfboth

    he hid, he concealed himself

لُؤَىّname
  1. 1.
    he twisted the ropeboth

    he twisted the rope

  2. 2.
    he turned his headboth

    he turned his head

  3. 3.
    he turned to him, meaning he showed affectionboth

    he turned to him, meaning he showed affection

Parallel reading

فعل ذلك بعد لاى، أي بعد شدة وإبطا
He did that after hardship, meaning after difficulty and delay.
ولاى لايا، أي أبطأ
And he delayed, meaning he was slow.
والتأى مثله
And التأى is like it (meaning delay).
والتأى الرجل: أفلس
And التأى of a man means he became bankrupt.
واللأواء: الشدة
And اللأواء means hardship.
من كان له ثلاث بنات فصبر على لأوائهن كن له حجابا من النار
Whoever has three daughters and is patient with their hardships will be a shield for him from the Fire.
واللاى على وزن اللعا: الثور الوحشى
And اللاى, on the pattern of لعاع, is the wild ox.
والجمع ألآء على ألعاء، مثل جبل وأجبال
And the plural is ألآء on the pattern of ألعاء, like جبل and أجبال.
والانثى لآة مثل لعاة
And the female is لآة, like لعاة.
ولاى أيضا: رجل، وتصغيره لؤى، ومنه لؤى بن غالب
And لاى is also a man, and its diminutive is لؤى, and from it is لؤى ibn Ghalib.
واللاى أيضا: الشدة في العيش
And اللاى also means hardship in living.
وليس يغير خيم الكريم * خلوقة أثوابه واللاى
And the disposition of the noble is not changed by * the greasiness of his clothes and hardship.