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Arabic dictionary

Dictionary Arabic-English Lexicon by Edward William Lane (d. 1876)

Entry لقي

ى

1 لَقِيَهُ He met him, or it. (Msb.)

and He [met with, or] found him, or it. (Msb.) You say, تَلْقاهُمٌ أُسْدًا [Thou will find them lions]. (Mughnee, voce إِنَّ.) See also ??.

لَقِيتُهُ and ↓ لَاقَيْتُهُ I came near to him, facing him: came to face his face. near to him (Ksh, in ii. 13.)

لَقِيَهُ بِمَكْرُوهِ (K in art. حبه, &c.) He [encountered with him, or said to him, or did to him, a thing disliked, or hated: (TK in art. جبه:) like استقبلهُ بِمَا يَكْرَهُ.

2 لَقَّاهُ شَرًّا [He made him to experience evil treatment]. (TA in art. جدع, voce جَدَّعَ.) See below; and see مُلَقًّى.

يُلَقَّوْنَ تَحِيَّةً They shall be greeted with prayer for length of life, or everlasting existence. (Bd in xxv. 75.) 3 لَاقَاهُ [He met him face to face; had an interview with him;] i. q. قَابَلَهُ. (TA.) See 1.

لَاقَى He experienced pain &c. See an ex. voce دَبِرٌ; and voce آلٌ: like لَقِىَ, voce آلٌ.

لَاقَى بَيْنَ طَرَفَى إِزَارِهِ وَشَدَّهُ [He made the two ends of his ازار to meet, and tied it]. (A, art. حجز.) 4 أَلْقَاهُ He threw it where he would find it. (Er-Rághib.)

And hence, conventionally, He threw it in any way: (Er-Rághib:) he threw it on the ground: (Mgh:) [he put it:] أَلْقَىْتُ انمَتَاعَ عَلَى الدَّابَّةِ I put the goods upon the beast. (Msb.)

أَلْقَتْ وَلَدَهَا She cast her young one, or her young.

أَلْقَى also signifies He let fall a thing, a curtain, &c.

أَلْقَيْتُ إِلَيْهِ خَيْرًا (assumed tropical:) I did good to him. (TA.) And أَلْقَيْتُ إِلَيْهِ المُوَدَّةَ and بَالمَوَدَّةِ (assumed tropical:) [I offered or tendered to him, or gave or granted him, love, or affection]. (TA.)

أَلْقَى عَلَيْهِ رَخَمَتَهُ (assumed tropical:) [He made his love, &c., to fall, or light, upon him, i. e. he bestowed it upon him]. (K, TA in art. رخم. [See this and three similar exs. voce رَخَمٌ.])

أَلْقَى إِلَيْهِ السَّلَامَ He offered to him salutation, or submission: see سِلْمٌ.

شَرَبَ مَا أُلْقِىَ إِلَيْهِ: see art. شرب.

أَلْقَيْتُ إِلَيْهِ القَوْلَ and بَالقَوْلِ I told, or communicated, to him the saying. (Msb.)

أَلْقى عَلَيْهِ شَرَاشِرَهُ: see art. شر.

أَلْقَاهُ عَلَيْهِ He put it into his mind; he suggested it: القاه [thus used] is said of God and of the Devil. (Kull, p. 277, in explanation of الفيض. [See 1 in art. فَيْضُ, last sentence but one.])

[And] He dictated it; (Msb;) namely, a writing to the writer. (Msb, in art. مل.)

أَلْقَى إِلَىَّ سِرَّهُ [He revealed to me his secret]. (TA, art. سر.)

لَا أُلْقِى إِلَيْهِ بَالًا: see art. بول.

أَلْقَى بِنَفْسِهِ, said of night (اللَّيْلُ): see رَبَضَ.

أَلْقَى إِلَيْهِ كَلَامًا He addressed to him speech.

5 تَلَقَّاهُ مِنْهُ He received it from him. (TA.)

تَلَقَّى i. q. تَلَقَّنَ. (Bd in l. 16.) 8 اِلْتَقَى مَسْلَكَاهَا [Her vagina and rectum met together in one, by the rending of the part between,] on the occasion of devirgination. (M, in art. اتم.) 10 اِسْتَلْقَى He lay, syn. نَامَ, (K,) upon the back of his neck. (JK, S, K.) And It (any. thing) was [or lay] as though thrown down or extended. (T, JK, TA.) لَقًى Muscles of the flesh. (TA, art. ضيج.)

لَقًى بَقًى: see بَقَاقٌ. لِقَآءٌ The facing a thing. [encountering it:] and meeting it, meeting with it, or finding it: and perceiving it by the sense, and by the sight. (Er-Rághib, TA.)

لِقَآءٌ: its predominant application is Encounter, i. e. conflict, fight, battle, or war. (Mgh.)

يَوْمُ اللِّقَآءِ The day of encounter in fight &c. بَيْعُ إِلْقَآءِ الحَجَرِ: see نَابَذَهُ, and art. لمس. وَجَدْتُ هٰذَا من تِلْقَآءِكَ I experienced this from thee, or on thy part; syn. مِنْ جِهَتِكَ and مِنْ قِبَلِكَ. (Mgh in art. قبل.) هٰذَا الأَمْرُ مِنْ تِلْقَائِهِ This thing, or affair, is from him; syn. مِنْ عِنْدِهِ; as also مِنْ قِبَلِهِ and مِنْ لَدُنْهُ. (Lth, in TA in art. قبل.)

تَلْقَآءَ In the direction that meets or faces. (El-Khafájee, TA.) You say, تَوَجَّهَ تِلْقَآءَ فُلَانٍ [He went towards such a one], and تِلْقَآءَ النَّارِ [in the direction of, or towards, the fire]. (K.) And جلست تِلْقَآءَهُ I sat over against him, or opposite to him. (S.) And وَقَفَ تِلْقَآءَ البَيْتِ He stopped facing the house. (Msb.)

تِلْقَآءُ القِبْلَةِ [The direction of the Kibleh]. (M, K, voce إِمْامٌ.)

See بَيَّنَهُ. مَلَاقِى الفَزْجِ [pl. of مَلْقًى,] The narrow, or strait, parts of the pudendum muliebre. (TA in art. لحم.)

الْمَلَاقِى The horizontal slabs in which is the aperture in a privy. مُلَقًّى Greeted: see بُلَهْنِيَةٌ, in art. بله.