Arabic dictionary
Dictionary Arabic-English Lexicon by Edward William Lane (d. 1876)
Entry لحي
ى
1 لُحِىَ: see a verse cited voce خَطَبَ.
لَحَاهُ اللّٰهُ: see شَرَاهُ.
5 تَلَحَّى, (S, Mgh,) and تلحّى بِعِمَامَتِهِ, (TA, art. عجر,) He wound a part of his turban under his lower jaw: (S, Mgh:) as also تَحَنَّكَ, q. v.
8 اِلْتَحَيْتُ اللَّحْمَ عَنِ العَظْمِ [I peeled off the flesh from the bone]. (O, K, in art. سلق.) لَحْىٌ [not لَحًى] The jaw-bone; (Mgh, Msb;) either upper or lower: (Msb:) and, in a man, (Msb,) the part on which the beard grows. (S, Msb, K.)
And sometimes Either lateral portion of the lower jaw: see ذَقَنٌ, and الفَنِيكُ.
لِحْيَةُ التَّيْسِ: see ثِيلٌ.
لِحْيَةٌ is sometimes, by a synecdoche, put for the whole person: see a verse cited voce خُنْثٌ.
مَسْحُ اللُِّحَى: see عَقَّ بِالسَّهْمِ.
لِحَآءٌ Bark; and in particular the bark of a plant, or of a tree, of which ropes &c. are made.
The لِحَآء of the date is [its Pulp, pulpy pericarp, or flesh; i. e.] the part that clothes the نَوَاة [or stone]. (TA.)
لِحَآءُ العِنَبِ [The skin of grapes]. (TA in art. شحم.) لَوَاحِى الشَّيْبِ, for لَوَائِحُ الشيب, q. v.
E.W. Lane's Arabic-English Lexicon (8 parts, London, 1863-93) is a major Arabic-English dictionary based on 112 sources, mostly medieval ones, along with al-Zabidi's Taj al-Aroos (also included in Lisaan.net). Lane died before he could finish the work, his great-nephew Stanley Lane-Poole finished it, publishing Volumes VI, VII and VIII from 1877–1893 using Lane's incomplete notes. Lane-Pool's work is of lower quality than Lane's. The work of Reinhart Dozy (see below) was meant as a supplement to Lane's work that covers modern Arabic (Lane focused on classical Arabic only). The digital text for the Lexicon was sourced from Tufts University under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 United States License. We used a TXT version created by an internet user named Navid-ul-Islam. Lisaan.net's version of the Lane Lexicon corrects various errors from both the Persues project (such as erroneous transcriptions of the Persian letter ژ) and the TXT version. Lisaan.net's version also provides helpful automatic annotations on the various abbreviations used by Lane.
