ل ه و

Arabic

Root

ل ه و • (l-h-w)

1. 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 (lihāʔ)
  • Active participle: مُلَاهٍ (mulāhin)
  • Passive participle: مُلَاهًى (mulāhan)
• Form IV: أَلْهَى (ʔalhā, “to divert”)
  • Verbal noun: إِلْهَاء (ʔilhāʔ)
  • Active participle: مُلْهٍ (mulhin)
  • Passive participle: مُلْهًى (mulhan)
• Form V: تَلَهَّى (talahhā, “to amuse oneself with, to delight in”)
  • 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 (iltihāʔ)
  • Active participle: مُلْتَهٍ (multahin)

• مِلْهًى (milhan, “toy”)
• مَلْهًى (malhan, “amusement place”)
• مَلْهَاة (malhāh, “reason of delight”)
• لَهَاة (lahāh, “uvula”)
• لَهَايَّة (lahāyya, “binky”)
• أُلْهُوَّة (ʔulhuwwa) and أُلْهِيَّة (ʔulhiyya, “thing to delight the mind”)

References

• Dozy, Reinhart Pieter Anne (1881) “ل ه و”, in Supplément aux dictionnaires arabes‎^[1] (in French), volume 2, Leiden: E. J. Brill, pages 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^[2] (in Latin), volume 4, Halle: C. A. Schwetschke, page 132
• Wehr, Hans with Kropfitsch, Lorenz (1985) “ل ه و”, in Arabisches Wörterbuch für die Schriftsprache der Gegenwart‎^[3] (in German), 5th edition, Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, published 2011, →ISBN, page 1171