Lane's Arabic-English Lexicon

Includes Hans Wehr and Al Mawrid — All in One Search

لاوذ

Root: لوذ

Form: 3

Full Definition

لاوذIII , Verbal.Noun مُلَاوَذَةٌ and لِوَاذٌ, with which تَلْوَاذٌ is syn., The people had recourse, one to another, for refuge or protection or preservation; sought, or took, refuge, one in another; protected, concealed, defended, or fortified, themselves, one by another. Agreeably with this explanation, لِوَاذًا is used in the Kur, xxiv. 63: were it from لَاذَ, it would be لِيَاذًا.
2 See 1.
3 لاوذ بِهِمْ, Verbal.Noun مُلَاوَذَةٌ, He went round about them, or encompassed them. See also 1.
4 لاوذهُ, Verbal.Noun مُلَاوَذَةٌ and لِوَاذٌ, He circumvented, or deluded, him; syn. رَاوَغَهُ Verbal.Noun مُرَاوَغَةٌ.
5 لاوذهُمْ and بِهِمْ, and , He wheedled, beguiled, or deluded, them; syn. دَارَاهُمْ. لاوذ He eluded, and shunned, or avoided, thee: syn. رَاغَ عَنْكَ, and حَادَ Agreeably with this explanation, or as signifying مراوغة, some render لِوَاذًا in the Kur, xxiv. 63.
6 لاوذهُ, Verbal.Noun مُلَاوَذَةٌ and لِوَاذٌ, He acted contrarily to, or differently from, or adversely to, him; was, or became contrary to, or different from, or adverse to, him; syn. خَالَفَهُ, Verbal.Noun خِلَافٌ. Agreeably with this explanation, Zj renders لِوَاذًا in the Kur, xxiv. 63; saying that the meaning which he thus assigns to it is shown to be the true one by the words immediately following.
Lane's Lexicon + Hans Wehr + Mawrid

Three dictionaries. One search.

"The product of over thirty years of unrelenting labor — to this day supreme in the field of Arabic lexicography."

47,000+ classical entries Root-based navigation Full text search Hyperlinked definitions
Try Free

Trusted by researchers at University of Michigan, Duke, Alberta & more