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4 اغواهُ ذ ; (S, MA, Msb, K;) and ↓ غوّاهُ , (K,) inf. n. تَغْوِيَةٌ; (TA;) and ↓ غَوَاهُ , (K, TA,) mentioned by El-Muärrij; (TA;) [but] accord. to As, one should not say otherwise than اغواهُ; (S, TA;) He caused him to err; or to deviate from the right course, or from that which was right: (S, Msb, K:) and caused him to be disappointed; or to fail of attaining his desire: (S:) or he seduced him, misled him, or led him astray; as also ↓ استغواهُ . (MA.) A poet, cited by El-Muärrij, says, “ وَكَائِنْ تَرَى مِنْ جَاهِلٍ بَعْدَ عِلْمِهِ
↓ الهَوَى جَهْلًا عَنِ الحَقِّ فَا@نْغَوَى ↓ غَوَاهُ
” [How many an ignorant dost thou see, whom, after his knowledge, love, or desire, has urged to turn, in ignorance, from that which was right, and who has turned: or has turned, in ignorance, from that which was right, and who has suffered himself to be turned; for,] accord. to Az, غَوَاهُ الهَوَى is most correctly rendered as meaning لَوَاهُ, and صَرَفَهُ; and انغوى is quasi-pass. thereof. (TA.) The saying in the Kur [vii. 15], related as from Iblees, فَبِمَا أَغْوَيْتَنِى means [Then by, or because of,] thy having caused me to err: or, as some say, invited me to [do] a thing whereby I have erred. (TA.) But the saying in the same [xi. 36], إِِنْ كَانَ ا@للّٰهُ يُرِيدُ أَنْ يُغْوِيَكُمْ is said to mean If God desire to punish you for erring: or to decree, against you, your erring [i. e. that ye shall err]. (TA.)
An Arabic-English Lexicon. London. Williams and Norgate. 1863.
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