ل و ث

Arabic

Root

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

Derived terms

• Form I: لَاثَ (lāṯa, “to twist around, to roll around, to wind”)
  • Verbal noun: لَوْث (lawṯ)
  • Active participle: لَائِث (lāʔiṯ)
  • Passive participle: مَلُوث (malūṯ)
• Form I: لَاثَ (lāṯa, “to procrastinate, to be tardy or dilatory”)
  • Verbal noun: لَوَث (lawaṯ)
  • Active participle: ?
• 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 (ʔalwāṯ, “languid, flaccid”)
• مَلَاث (malāṯ, “place around which is revolved”)
• مَلَاث (malāṯ) and مِلَوْث (milawṯ, “a man to which one crowds for his address”)

References

• Dozy, Reinhart Pieter Anne (1881) “ل و ث”, in Supplément aux dictionnaires arabes‎^[1] (in French), volume 2, Leiden: E. J. Brill, page 555
• 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^[2] (in Latin), volume 4, Halle: C. A. Schwetschke, pages 133–134
• Kazimirski, Albin de Biberstein (1860) “ل و ث”, in Dictionnaire arabe-français contenant toutes les racines de la langue arabe, leurs dérivés, tant dans l’idiome vulgaire que dans l’idiome littéral, ainsi que les dialectes d’Alger et de Maroc‎^[3] (in French), volume 2, Paris: Maisonneuve et C^ie, pages 1037–1038
• Steingass, Francis Joseph (1884) “ل و ث”, in The Student's Arabic–English Dictionary‎^[4], London: W.H. Allen, page 931
• Wahrmund, Adolf (1887) “ل و ث”, in Handwörterbuch der neu-arabischen und deutschen Sprache‎^[5] (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 with Kropfitsch, Lorenz (1985) “ل و ث”, in Arabisches Wörterbuch für die Schriftsprache der Gegenwart‎^[6] (in German), 5th edition, Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, published 2011, →ISBN, pages 1172–1173