لَا
Root: ل
Full Definition
2 لَا رَجُلَ قَائِمٌ There is not any man standing: but when the subst. and epithet are both simple words, and not separated, the latter may be used in three different ways; as in لَا رَجُلَ ظَرِيفَ and ظَرِيفًا and ظَرِيفٌ; otherwise it must be marfooa or mansoob, but not mebnee: this relates to لا used لِنَفْىِ الجِنْسِ.
3 لا, also, Lest. See رَكَبَهُ.
4 [لَا لَهُ وَلَا عَلَيْهِ There is nothing due to him, nor anything to be demanded of him. (Thus I have rendered this phrase, voce مَلَسَى, in three places.) For] when لا is a general negative, the context renders it allowable to suppress its subject, as in لَا عَلَيْكَ, for لَا بَأْسَ عَلَيْكَ; and sometimes the predicate, when known, is suppressed, as in لَا بَأْسَ.
5 لَاشَ, for لَا شَىْءَ: see art. لوش.
6 كَلَا وَلَا [As the time occupied in saying لَا وَلَا]. See an ex. in the TA, voce لوْذَان.
7 لَا وَلَا Olive-oil: in allusion to the words in the Kur xxiv. 35, occurring in a trad.
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9 لَا أَغَرُّ وَلَا بَهِيمٌ: see بَهِيمٌ.
10 لَا in a case of pausation pronounced لَأْ: see art. ا .
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