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التاث

Root: لوث

Form: 8

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التاثVIII : see 1.
2 It was, or became, collected together.
3 التاث; and لوّث , Verbal.Noun تَلْوِيثٌ; It was, or became, confused, intricate, and difficult. You say التاثت عَلَيْهِ الأُموُرُ The affairs became confused, and intricate, to him: and التاثت الخُطُوبُ [The affairs became confused].
4 Also, both verbs, It became wound about. You say إِلْتَاثَتْ بِرَأْسِ القَلَمِ شَعْرَةٌ (so in one copy of the S: in another, التاث) [A hair became wound about the head, or tip, of the reed-pen: read, erroneously, by Golius, and Freytag, التاث برأس القلم شَعَرَهُ].
5 He became strong, powerful, or vigorous.
6 He became fat.
7 He withheld, or restrained; syn. حَبَسَ: [but it seems rather to signify he withheld, or restrained, himself; syn. إِحْتَبَسَ; like لَاثَ ]. Accord. to the K, لوّث, Verbal.Noun تَلْوِيثٌ, signifies the same; but it is not so: it is the same as التاث only as signifying “ it was, or became confused ”, and “ it became wound about. ”
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