ل و ث

ل و ث

Arabic

Root

ل و ث • (l-w-ṯ)

1. related to slow change from one state into another
   1. related to languor
   2. related to winding, binding around
   3. related to wallowing in dirt

Derived terms

• Form I: لَاثَ‎ (lāṯa, “to twist around, to roll around, to wind”)
  • Verbal noun: لَوْث‎ (lawṯ)
  • Active participle: لَائِث‎ (lāʾiṯ)
  • Passive participle: مَلُوث‎ (malūṯ)
• Form I: لَاثَ‎ (lāṯa, “to procrastinate, to be tardy or dilatory”)
  • Verbal noun: لَوَث‎ (lawaṯ)
  • Active participle: لَائِث‎ (lāʾiṯ)
• Form II: لَوَّثَ‎ (lawwaṯa, “to pollute”)
  • Verbal noun: تَلْوِيث‎ (talwīṯ)
  • Active participle: مُلَوِّث‎ (mulawwiṯ)
  • Passive participle: مُلَوَّث‎ (mulawwaṯ)
• Form V: تَلَوَّثَ‎ (talawwaṯa, “to be polluted”)
  • Verbal noun: تَلَوُّث‎ (talawwuṯ)
  • Active participle: مُتَلَوِّث‎ (mutalawwiṯ)
• Form VIII: اِلْتَاثَ‎ (iltāṯa, “to tarry, to hesitate; to be turbid, to be blear, to be murky”)
  • Verbal noun: اِلْتِيَاث‎ (iltiyāṯ)
  • Active participle: مُلْتَاث‎ (multāṯ)

• لَيْث‎ (layṯ, “lion”)
• لَيِّث‎ (layyiṯ, “perplex, convoluted”)
• لُوثَة‎ (lūṯa, “impetuosity, languidness, languor, folly”)
• لَوْثَة‎ (lawṯa, “stain, blot, slop”)
• لُوَاث‎ (luwāṯ, “flour put on the worktop lest the dough stick”)
• لُوَاثَة‎ (luwāṯa, “who is always sullied, crowd or individual that is always smutty”)
• لَوِيثَة‎ (lawīṯa, “community of tribes, stems crowded together”)
• أَلْوَاث‎ (ʾalwāṯ, “languid, flaccid”)
•  مَلَاث‎ (malāṯ, “place around which is revolved”)
• مَلَاث‎ (malāṯ) and مِلَوْث‎ (milawṯ, “a man to which one crowds for his address”)

References

• Dozy, Reinhart Pieter Anne (1881), “ل و ث”, in Supplément aux dictionnaires arabes (in French), volume 2, Leiden: E. J. Brill, page 555
• Freytag, Georg (1837), “ل و ث”, 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, pages 133–134
• Kazimirski, Albin de Biberstein (1860), “ل و ث”, in Dictionnaire arabe-français contenant toutes les racines de la langue arabe, leurs dérivés, tant dans l’idiome vulgaire que dans l’idiome littéral, ainsi que les dialectes d’Alger et de Maroc (in French), volume 2, Paris: Maisonneuve et C^ie, pages 1037–1038
• Steingass, Francis Joseph (1884), “ل و ث”, in The Student's Arabic–English Dictionary, London: W.H. Allen, page 931
• Wahrmund, Adolf (1887), “ل و ث”, in Handwörterbuch der neu-arabischen und deutschen Sprache (in German), volume 2, Gießen: J. Ricker’sche Buchhandlung, page 660
• Wehr, Hans (1979), “ل و ث”, in J. Milton Cowan, editor, A Dictionary of Modern Written Arabic, 4th edition, Ithaca, NY: Spoken Language Services, →ISBN, pages 1034–1035
• Wehr, Hans; Kropfitsch, Lorenz (1985), “ل و ث”, in Arabisches Wörterbuch für die Schriftsprache der Gegenwart (in German), 5th edition, Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, published 2011, →ISBN, pages 1172–1173