distortion, contortion

He waited for him. (Msb.) ― -b2- مَرَّ لَا يَلْوِى عَلَى أَحَدٍ He went along, not pausing nor waiting for any one. (Msb.) See the Kur-án, iii. 147. ― -b3- لَوَاهُ بِدَيْنِهِ i. q. مَطَلَهُ. (S, Msb, K.) ― -b4- لَوَى He twisted a thing; turned or wreathed it round or about: contorted it: wound it: curled it: curved it: or bent it. (K, &c.) And He, or it, turned him from his course; made him to deviate, or swerve. ― -b5- لَوَى عَلَيْهِ He went round it, or round about it. (Bd, in liii. 20.) ― -b6- لَوَى عَلَيْهِ أَمْرَهُ [He mode his case, or affair, difficult and intricate to him: see إِلْتَوّى عَلَيْهِ]. (S, K, art. عوص.) ― -b7- لَوَى خَبَرَهُ, (assumed tropical:) He concealed his information. (T, TA.) And لَوَى أَمْرَهُ عِنِّى (tropical:) He concealed his affair from me. (K, TA.)

He distorted, wrested, or wrung, the language. (M, K.) [Hence, perhaps, فُلَانٌ يُلْوِى بِخَصْمِهِ, if the verb be correctly thus: see عُقْمِىَ, last sentence.]

It twisted, or coiled, itself: (KL:) it became twisted, or coiled: one says, تَلَوَّتِ الحَيَّةُ. (MA.) ― -b2- تَلَوَّى مِنْ وَجَعِ الضَّرْبِ [He writhed by reason of the pain of beating]. (M, A, K, art. ضور.)

said of two serpents [They twist together]: see عَقاَمٌ, last sentence.

, neuter verb, It twisted: wound: bent. (K, &c.) ― -b2- اِلْتَوَى عَلَيْهِ It (an affair) became difficult; or difficult and intricate. (TA.) ― -b3- الْتَوَتْ عَلَىَّ حَاجَتِى My want became difficult of attainment. (TA.) ― -b4- التوى عَلَيْهِ also He acted, or behaved, perversely towards him.

A banner, or standard, syn. عَلَمٌ, (M, Mgh, K,) of a commander, (T,) or of an army, less than the رَايَة, being a strip of cloth, twisted, or wound, and tied to a spear-shaft. (Mgh.) See رِفَادَةٌ. Respecting the لِوَآء of the Kaabeh, see سَدَنَ and فَادَةٌ.

: see art. سوى.

occurs in poetry for اللَّوَاتِى. (TA in art. شرف.)

Very contentious. (K.) See an ex. voce مُسْتَمَرّ.