Edward William Lane, An Arabic-English Lexicon, ل

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1 لَاحَ ذ , aor. يَلُوحُ, inf. n. لَوْحٌ, It (a thing) shone; gleamed; glistened. (S.) ― -b2- لَاحَ, (aor. يَلُوحُ, inf. n. لَوْحٌ and لُؤُوحٌ and لَوَحَانٌ; TA;) and ↓ الاح ; It (lightning) flashed slightly, not extending sideways in the adjacent tracts of cloud: (S, K:) or ↓ الاح signifies it lighted up what surrounded it. (TA.) ― -b3- لَاحَ, (S, Msb,) aor. يَلُوحُ; (Msb;) inf. n. [لَوْحٌ and] لِيَاحٌ; (IAth;) It appeared: (IAth, Msb:) it (a star) appeared, (S, Msb,) as also ↓ الاح , (S, K,) [it loomed,] and shone, gleamed, or glistened; (TA;) as also ↓ الاح : (Msb, TA:) ISk says, لَاحَ سُهَيْل Canopus appeared; (S;) and ↓ الاح it shone and glistened. (S, K.) ― -b4- لاح, and ↓ الاح , He (a man) came forth and became apparent. (A 'Obeyd.) ― -b5- لَاحَ لِى أَمْرُكَ, and ↓ تلوّح , (tropical:) Thine affair became apparent and manifest to me. (A.) ― -b6- لَاحَ الشَّيْبُ فِى رَأْسِهِ Hoariness appeared upon his head. (TA.) ― -b7- لَاحَهُ, aor. يَلُوحُ, He saw him, or it. (K.) ― -b8- لَاحَ إِِلَى كَذَا, aor. يَلُوحُ, He looked at, or towards, such a thing; as a distant fire. (L.) ― -b9- لَاحَهُ بِبَصَرِهِ, aor. يَلُوحُ, inf. n. لَوْحَةٌ, [so in the L,] He saw him, or it, and then he or it became concealed from him. (L.) ― -b10- See 4. -A2- لَاحَ, (S,) aor. يَلُوحُ, (TA,) inf. n. لَوْحٌ (S, K,) and لُوحٌ (K) and لُوَاحٌ (S, K) and لُؤُوحٌ and لَوَحَانٌ; (K;) and ↓ التاح ; (S, K;) He thirsted: (S, K;) or he thirsted in the slightest degree: (TA:) or he thirsted quickly. (Lh.) ― -b2- لَاحَهُ, (aor. يَلُوحُ, inf. n. لَوْحٌ, TA,) It (thirst, K, or travel, S, K, and cold, and disease or illness, and grief, TA,) altered him, (S, K,) and made him lean, lank, light of flesh, slender, or lank in the belly; (TA;) as also ↓ لوّحهُ , (K,) inf. n. تَلْوِيحٌ: or the latter signifies it (the heat of fire or of the sun) altered the colour of his skin: (TA:) or both verbs signify it parched, scorched, or burned, and blackened, his skin. (Zj.) الشَّمْسُ ↓ لَوَّحَتْهُ The sun altered him, and scorched, i. e. slightly burned, and changed the colour of, his face; (S;) and in like manner fire, and the hot wind called سَمُوم; as also لَاحَتْهُ. (A.)