لَهْوٌ
Root: لهو
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لَهْوٌ
Diversion; pastime; sport; play: or especially, such as is vain, or frivolous; idle sport: what occupies a man so as to divert him from that which would render him sad or solicitous, &c.: or relief of the mind by means which wisdom does not require: this [it is said] is the original signification: a thing in which a man delights himself, and which occupies him so as to divert him, and then ceases. It has a more general application than لَعِبٌ: for ex., the hearing of musical instruments or the like is لَهْوٌ, but not لَعْبٌ.
2 آلَةُ لَهْوٍ [An instrument of diversion, meaning, of music]. (K voce رَبَابٌ.)
2 آلَةُ لَهْوٍ [An instrument of diversion, meaning, of music]. (K voce رَبَابٌ.)
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