liḥya

beard

لِحْيَة

Word

Noun · pattern فِعْلَة

Root

ل ح ي

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قَالَ يَا ابْنَ أُمَّ لَا تَأْخُذْ بِلِحْيَتِي وَلَا بِرَأْسِي ۖ إِنِّي خَشِيتُ أَنْ تَقُولَ فَرَّقْتَ بَيْنَ بَنِي إِسْرَائِيلَ وَلَمْ تَرْقُبْ قَوْلِي

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Lane's Lexicon

Arabic–English, 1863–93 · 8 entries

لُحِىَ Form I Open entry

: see a verse cited voce خَطَبَ. ― -b2- لَحَاهُ ٱللّٰهُ: see شَرَاهُ.
تَلَحَّى Form V He wound a part of his turban under his lower jaw

, (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.
اِلْتَحَيْتُ اللَّحْمَ عَنِ العَظْمِ Form VIII I peeled off the flesh from the bone

[I peeled off the flesh from the bone]. (O, K, in art. سلق.)
لَحْىٌ jaw-bone

[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.) ― -b2- And sometimes Either lateral portion of the lower jaw: see ذَقَنٌ, and الفَنِيكُ.
لِحْيَةُ التَّيْسِ person

: see ثِيلٌ. ― -b2- لِحْيَةٌ is sometimes, by a synecdoche, put for the whole person: see a verse cited voce خُنْثٌ.
مَسْحُ اللُِّحَى Open entry

: see عَقَّ بِالسَّهْمِ.
لِحَآءٌ Bark

Bark; and in particular the bark of a plant, or of a tree, of which ropes &c. are made. ― -b2- The لِحَآء of the date is [its Pulp, pulpy pericarp, or flesh; i. e.] the part that clothes the نَوَاة [or stone]. (TA.) ― -b3- لِحَآءُ العِنَبِ [The skin of grapes]. (TA in art. شحم.)
لَوَاحِى الشَّيْبِ Open entry

, for لَوَايأِحُ الشيب, q. v.

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