ل ه و

ل ه و • (l-h-w)

1. related to diversion

• 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 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 (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”)

• 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