ل ه و
Arabic
Root
ل ه و • (l-h-w)
- related to diversion
Derived terms
- Form I: لَهَا (lahā, “to divert oneself”)
- Verbal noun: لَهْو (lahw)
- Active participle: لَاهٍ (lāhin)
- Form I: لَهَا (lahā, “to turn one's back to, to give up, to abstain”)
- Verbal noun: لُهِيّ (luhiyy), لِهْيَان (lihyān)
- Active participle: لَاهٍ (lāhin)
- Form I: لَهِيَ (lahiya, “to withdraw from, to give up, to turn one's back to; to be enamoured, to be oblectated”)
- Verbal noun: لَهًى (lahan)
- Active participle: لَاهٍ (lāhin)
- Form II: لَهَّى (lahhā, “to divert”)
- Verbal noun: تَلْهِيَة (talhiya)
- Active participle: مُلَهٍّ (mulahhin)
- Passive participle: مُلَهًّى (mulahhan)
- Form III: لَاهَى (lāhā, “to come near to, to be near too; to distract, to divert”)
- Verbal noun: مُلَاهَاة (mulāhāh), لِهَاء (lihāʾ)
- Active participle: مُلَاهٍ (mulāhin)
- Passive participle: مُلَاهًى (mulāhan)
- Form IV: أَلْهَى (ʾalhā, “to divert”)
- Verbal noun: إِلْهَاء (ʾilhāʾ)
- Active participle: مُلْهٍ (mulhin)
- Passive participle: مُلْهًى (mulhan)
- Form V: تَلَهَّى (talahhā, “to ridiculize, to jeer at”)
- Verbal noun: تَلَهٍّ (talahhin)
- Active participle: مُتَلَهٍّ (mutalahhin)
- Passive participle: مُتَلَهًّى (mutalahhan)
- Form VIII: اِلْتَهَى (iltahā, “to play around, to futz around”)
- Verbal noun: اِلْتِهَاء (iltihāʾ)
- Active participle: مُلْتَهٍ (multahin)
- مِلْهًى (milhan, “toy”)
- مَلْهًى (malhan, “amusement place”)
- مَلْهَاة (malhāh, “reason of delight”)
- لَهَاة (lahāh, “uvula”)
- لَهَايَّة (lahāyya, “binky”)
- أُلْهُوَّة (ʾulhuwwa) and أُلْهِيَّة (ʾulhiyya, “thing to delight the mind”)
References
- Dozy, Reinhart Pieter Anne (1881), “ل ه و”, in Supplément aux dictionnaires arabes (in French), volume 2, Leiden: E. J. Brill, page 553–554
- Freytag, Georg (1837), “ل ه و”, in Lexicon arabico-latinum praesertim ex Djeuharii Firuzabadiique et aliorum Arabum operibus adhibitis Golii quoque et aliorum libris confectum (in Latin), volume 4, Halle: C. A. Schwetschke, page 132
- Wehr, Hans; Kropfitsch, Lorenz (1985), “ل ه و”, in Arabisches Wörterbuch für die Schriftsprache der Gegenwart (in German), 5th edition, Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, published 2011, →ISBN, page 1171