Edward William Lane, An Arabic-English Lexicon, ت

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تِيهٌ تيه تية [originally an inf. n.: see 1, throughout:] A مَفَازَة [i. e. desert, or waterless desert, &c.,] (S, Msb, K) in which one loses his way, (S,) wherein is no sign, or mark, whereby one may be guided therein; as also ↓ تَيْهَآءُ : (Msb:) pl. أَتْيَاهٌ and أَتَاوِيهٌ, (S, K,) the latter of which is a pl. of the former pl., (TA,) and أَتَاوِهَةٌ. (Meyd, in Freytag's Lex.) [Hence,] التِّيهُ, [also called تِيهُ بَنِى إِِسْرَائِيلَ,] The place [or desert] in which the Children of Israel lost their way, between Egypt and the 'Akabeh [at the head of the eastern gulf of the Red Sea], unable to find the way of egress from it. (TA.) ― -b2- أَرْضٌ تِيهٌ and ↓ تَيْهٌ and ↓ تَيْهَآءُ (K) and ↓ مَتِيهَةٌ , (S, K,) originally [مَتْيِهَةٌ,] of the measure مَفْعِلَةٌ, (S,) and ↓ مُتِيهَةٌ and ↓ مَتْيَهَةٌ and ↓ مَتْيَةٌ (K) and ↓ مُتْيِهَةٌ (TA) A land wherein one loses his way, (S, K, TA,) wide, and having in it no signs, or marks, of the way, nor mountains nor hills. (TA.) And ↓ بَلَدٌ أَتْيَهُ A country to which, and in which, one cannot find his way. (TA.)