لَفَتَهُ
Root: لفت
Form: 1
Full Definition
لَفَتَهُI
, Present.T
ـِ Verbal.Noun لَفْتٌ, He twisted, wrung, or turned, him, or it, , in a way different from his, or its, [proper] direction: as when you grasp a man's throat, and twist or wring it.
2 تِلْفِتُ البَقَرَةُ الخَلَى بِلِسَانِهَا [The cow turns about the fresh herb with her tongue]. [For الخَلَا, as in copies of the S, I have substituted الخَلَى. To this action is likened a hypocrite's reading of the Kur-án.]
3 لَفَتَهُ He twisted, or wrung, his neck, and broke it; as also عَفَتَهُ and حَفَتَهُ. (Az, in TA, art. حفت.)
4 لَفَتَهُ المَوْتُ Death took him away suddenly; as also فَلَتَهُ. (T, TA, art. فلت)
5 لَفَتَهُ, Present.T ـِ Verbal.Noun لَفْتٌ, He turned him aside, to the right or left.
6 لَفَتَهُ عِنِ الشَّىْءِ Present.T ـِ Verbal.Noun لَفْتٌ, He turned away, averted, or diverted, him from the thing. So in the Kur, x., 79.
7 مَا لَفَتَكَ عَنْ فُلَانٍ What hath turned thee away, or averted thee, or diverted thee, from such a one
8 لَفَتَهُ عَنْ رَأْيِهِ
9 لَفَتَ وَجْهَهُ عَنِّى He turned away, or averted, his face from me.
10 لَفَتَ المَاشِيَةَ, Present.T ـِ (Verbal.Noun لَفْتٌ, TA,) He beat the camels or sheep or goats, not caring which of them he struck.
11 لَفَتَ الْكَلَامَ, Present.T ـِ Verbal.Noun لَفْتٌ,
def.2 لَفَتَ شَيْئًا, [Present.T ـِ] Verbal.Noun لَفْتٌ, He stirred a thing about and over, like as flour is stirred about and over with clarified butter, &c. [See لَفِيتَةٌ.]
2 لَفَتَ اللِّحَآءَ عَنِ الشَّجَرِ He removed, or pulled off, the peel, or rind, from the trees: or, accord. to the A, عَنِ العُودِ from the twig, or branch.
3 لَفَتَ الرِّيشَ عَلَى السَّهْمِ He put the feathers upon the arrow not so that they were well-composed, or equal, or even, or uniform, (غَيْرَ مُتَلَائِمٍ [i. e., not so that they were what is termed لُؤَام,]) but as they happened to be.
2 تِلْفِتُ البَقَرَةُ الخَلَى بِلِسَانِهَا [The cow turns about the fresh herb with her tongue]. [For الخَلَا, as in copies of the S, I have substituted الخَلَى. To this action is likened a hypocrite's reading of the Kur-án.]
3 لَفَتَهُ He twisted, or wrung, his neck, and broke it; as also عَفَتَهُ and حَفَتَهُ. (Az, in TA, art. حفت.)
4 لَفَتَهُ المَوْتُ Death took him away suddenly; as also فَلَتَهُ. (T, TA, art. فلت)
5 لَفَتَهُ, Present.T ـِ Verbal.Noun لَفْتٌ, He turned him aside, to the right or left.
6 لَفَتَهُ عِنِ الشَّىْءِ Present.T ـِ Verbal.Noun لَفْتٌ, He turned away, averted, or diverted, him from the thing. So in the Kur, x., 79.
7 مَا لَفَتَكَ عَنْ فُلَانٍ What hath turned thee away, or averted thee, or diverted thee, from such a one
8 لَفَتَهُ عَنْ رَأْيِهِ
9 لَفَتَ وَجْهَهُ عَنِّى He turned away, or averted, his face from me.
10 لَفَتَ المَاشِيَةَ, Present.T ـِ (Verbal.Noun لَفْتٌ, TA,) He beat the camels or sheep or goats, not caring which of them he struck.
11 لَفَتَ الْكَلَامَ, Present.T ـِ Verbal.Noun لَفْتٌ,
def.2 لَفَتَ شَيْئًا, [Present.T ـِ] Verbal.Noun لَفْتٌ, He stirred a thing about and over, like as flour is stirred about and over with clarified butter, &c. [See لَفِيتَةٌ.]
2 لَفَتَ اللِّحَآءَ عَنِ الشَّجَرِ He removed, or pulled off, the peel, or rind, from the trees: or, accord. to the A, عَنِ العُودِ from the twig, or branch.
3 لَفَتَ الرِّيشَ عَلَى السَّهْمِ He put the feathers upon the arrow not so that they were well-composed, or equal, or even, or uniform, (غَيْرَ مُتَلَائِمٍ [i. e., not so that they were what is termed لُؤَام,]) but as they happened to be.
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