ل و ث

ل و ث • (l-w-ṯ)

1. related to slow change from one state into another
   1. related to languor
   2. related to winding, binding around
   3. related to wallowing in dirt

• Form I: لَاثَ‎ (lāṯa, “to twist around, to roll around, to wind”)
  • Verbal noun: لَوْث‎ (lawṯ)
  • Active participle: لَائِث‎ (lāʾiṯ)
  • Passive participle: مَلُوث‎ (malūṯ)
• Form I: لَاثَ‎ (lāṯa, “to procrastinate, to be tardy or dilatory”)
  • Verbal noun: لَوَث‎ (lawaṯ)
  • Active participle: لَائِث‎ (lāʾiṯ)
• Form II: لَوَّثَ‎ (lawwaṯa, “to pollute”)
  • Verbal noun: تَلْوِيث‎ (talwīṯ)
  • Active participle: مُلَوِّث‎ (mulawwiṯ)
  • Passive participle: مُلَوَّث‎ (mulawwaṯ)
• Form V: تَلَوَّثَ‎ (talawwaṯa, “to be polluted”)
  • Verbal noun: تَلَوُّث‎ (talawwuṯ)
  • Active participle: مُتَلَوِّث‎ (mutalawwiṯ)
• Form VIII: اِلْتَاثَ‎ (iltāṯa, “to tarry, to hesitate; to be turbid, to be blear, to be murky”)
  • Verbal noun: اِلْتِيَاث‎ (iltiyāṯ)
  • Active participle: مُلْتَاث‎ (multāṯ)

• لَيْث‎ (layṯ, “lion”)
• لَيِّث‎ (layyiṯ, “perplex, convoluted”)
• لُوثَة‎ (lūṯa, “impetuosity, languidness, languor, folly”)
• لَوْثَة‎ (lawṯa, “stain, blot, slop”)
• لُوَاث‎ (luwāṯ, “flour put on the worktop lest the dough stick”)
• لُوَاثَة‎ (luwāṯa, “who is always sullied, crowd or individual that is always smutty”)
• لَوِيثَة‎ (lawīṯa, “community of tribes, stems crowded together”)
• أَلْوَاث‎ (ʾalwāṯ, “languid, flaccid”)
•  مَلَاث‎ (malāṯ, “place around which is revolved”)
• مَلَاث‎ (malāṯ) and مِلَوْث‎ (milawṯ, “a man to which one crowds for his address”)

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• Freytag, Georg (1837), “ل و ث”, in Lexicon arabico-latinum praesertim ex Djeuharii Firuzabadiique et aliorum Arabum operibus adhibitis Golii quoque et aliorum libris confectum (in Latin), volume 4, Halle: C. A. Schwetschke, pages 133–134
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• Steingass, Francis Joseph (1884), “ل و ث”, in The Student's Arabic–English Dictionary, London: W.H. Allen, page 931
• Wahrmund, Adolf (1887), “ل و ث”, in Handwörterbuch der neu-arabischen und deutschen Sprache (in German), volume 2, Gießen: J. Ricker’sche Buchhandlung, page 660
• Wehr, Hans (1979), “ل و ث”, in J. Milton Cowan, editor, A Dictionary of Modern Written Arabic, 4th edition, Ithaca, NY: Spoken Language Services, →ISBN, pages 1034–1035
• Wehr, Hans; Kropfitsch, Lorenz (1985), “ل و ث”, in Arabisches Wörterbuch für die Schriftsprache der Gegenwart (in German), 5th edition, Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, published 2011, →ISBN, pages 1172–1173