seek refuge, have recourse

, aor. يَلُوذُ, (S, A, L, Msb,) inf. n. لَوْذٌ (S, L, K) and لِيَاذٌ (S, A, L, K) and لِوَاذٌ (L, Msb, K) and لَوَاذٌ and لُوَاذٌ, (Msb, K,) He had recourse to it, (a mountain [&c.], Msb,) or him, for refuge or protection or preservation; (S, A, L, Msb;) as also به ↓ لاوذ, inf. n. لِوَاذٌ; (A;) and به ↓ الاذ; (Msb;) sought, or took, refuge in it, or him; (S, L;) and joined himself to him; and sought, desired, implored, or called for, aid, or succour, of him: (L:) he protected, concealed, defended, or fortified himself by it, (L, K,) or him; (L;) as also به ↓ لاوذ, (L,) inf. n. مُلَاوَذَةٌ (L, K) and لِوَاذٌ; (L;) and ↓ الاذ. (L.) ― -b2- لَاذَ بِهِ, (L,) inf. n. as above, in the commencement of the art., (K,) It encompassed, or surrounded, it; (L, K; *) as also ↓ الاذ, (L,) inf. n. إِلَاذَةٌ. (L, K.) You say, لَاذَ الطَّرِيقُ بِالدَّارِ, and ↓ الاذ, The road encompassed, or surrounded, the house: (L:) or, reached, or extended, to the house: (Msb:) and لَاذَتِ الدَّارُ بِالطَّرِيقِ The house encompassed, or surrounded, the road. (L.) See also 3. ― -b3- لَاذَ بِالقَوْمِ and بِهِم ↓ الاذ, He laboured, or strove, to overcome the people in any way; expl. by the words هى المداورة من حيث ماكان. (T, L.) [Perhaps المداورة is a mistake for المُدَارَاة; see 3: the same phrases being explained in the M by دَاَراهُمْ: but there is a near resemblance between the significations of المداورة and المداراة.]

, (S, L,) inf. n. مُلَاوَذَةٌ and لِوَاذٌ, (S, L, K,) with which تَلْوَاذٌ is syn., (K,) The people had recourse, one to another, for refuge or protection or preservation; sought, or took, refuge, one in another; protected, concealed, defended, or fortified, themselves, one by another. (S, L, K. *) Agreeably with this explanation, (as some say, L,) لِوَاذًا is used in the Kur, xxiv. 63: were it from لَاذَ, it would be لِيَاذًا. (S, L.) ― -b2- See 1. ― -b3- لاوذ بِهِمْ, inf. n. مُلَاوَذَةٌ, He went round about them, or encompassed them. (Msb.) See also 1. ― -b4- لاوذهُ, (M, L,) inf. n. مُلَاوَذَةٌ (K) and لِوَاذٌ, (M, L, K,) He circumvented, or deluded, him; (M, L, K; *) syn. رَاوَغَهُ (M, L) inf. n. مُرَاوَغَةٌ. (K.) ― -b5- لاوذهُمْ (M, L) and بِهِمْ ↓ لَاذَ, and ↓ الاذ, (M,) He wheedled, beguiled, or deluded, them; syn. دَارَاهُمْ. (M, L.) لاوذ He eluded, and shunned, or avoided, thee: syn. رَاغَ عَنْكَ, and حَادَ Agreeably with this explanation, or as signifying مراوغة, some render لِوَاذًا in the Kur, xxiv. 63. (Ibn-Is-Seed, TA.) ― -b6- لاوذهُ, (TK,) inf. n. مُلَاوَذَةٌ (K) and لِوَاذٌ, (L, K,) He acted contrarily to, or differently from, or adversely to, him; was, or became contrary to, or different from, or adverse to, him; (L, * K, * TK;) syn. خَالَفَهُ, (TK,) inf. n. خِلَافٌ. (L, K.) Agreeably with this explanation, Zj renders لِوَاذًا in the Kur, xxiv. 63; saying that the meaning which he thus assigns to it is shown to be the true one by the words immediately following. (L.)

see 1: ― -b2- and 3. ― -b3- الاذ بِهِ غَيْرَهُ [He caused another to have recourse to him or it for refuge or protection or preservation; to seek, or take, refuge in him or it; to protect, conceal, defend, or fortify, himself by him or it: or he protected, concealed, defended, or fortified, another by means of him or it]. (A.) ― -b4- الاذت النَّاقَةُ الظِّلَّ بِخُفِّهَا (tropical:) [The she-camel covered, or concealed, the shade with her foot]; meaning that the time of noonday-heat was come. (A.)

The side of a mountain; and its circuit: pl. ألْوَاذٌ. (S, A, L, K.) ― -b2- A side, or lateral part or tract, of a country or region: (A:) and of a thing; (TA;) as also ↓ لَوْذَانٌ: (K:) pl. as above. (A.) ― -b3- A place of bending of a valley: pl. as above. (L, K.) ― -b4- هُوَ بِلَوْذِ كَذَا, and كَذَا ↓ بِلَوْذَانِ, He, or it, is in the side of, or part adjacent to, such a place or thing. (L.) ― -b5- هُوَ لَوْذَهُ He is near to him or it. (L.)

: see لَوْذٌ.

, (as in some copies of the K,) or لَوَذَانِيَّةٌ, (as in others and in the TA,) Circumvention; delusion; syn. مُرَاوَغَةٌ. (K.) See 3.

and ↓ مِلْوَذَةٌ [the latter thus in the K and accord. to the TA; but in the TT, مَلْوَذَة; and in the L, without the first vowel-sign;] A place to which one has recourse for refuge, protection, preservation, or concealment; a place of refuge; a refuge; (TA;) a fortress; a fortified place; a castle. (L, K.)

: see مَلَاذٌ.

(tropical:) Little good: (S:) or good that comes not save after severe toil or labour: occurring in a verse of El-Katámee: you say, خَيْرُ بَنِى فُلَانٍ مُلَاوِذٌ The good of the sons of such a one comes not save after severe toil or trouble to procure it. (ISk, T, L.)

: see 3.