mutawallih

bewildered, hare-brained

مُتَوَلِّه

Word

Adjective · pattern مُتَفَعِّل

Root

و ل ه

In the library

وإن ابتدرته مهنة مالك، فقد نبذ في المهالك، فليته كالجعديّ، أو سلك به مسلك عديّ، أو كان مذهبه مذهب حاتم فقد كان متألّهاً، ومن الخشية متولهَّاً، وقال:

The Epistle of Forgiveness, page 161 →

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Lane's Lexicon

Arabic–English, 1863–93 · 3 entries

وَلِهَ Form I His reason departed, or he became bereft of his reason or intellect, in consequence of grief

His reason departed, or he became bereft of his reason or intellect, in consequence of grief; (K;) or of joy, or grief; (Msb;) or of intense grief; (S, Mgh;) or of the loss of the beloved: (TA:) or he grieved, or sorrowed: (K:) and he became confounded, or perplexed, and unable to see his right course, (S, K, TA,) by reason of intense grief: (S, TA:) and he feared. (K.) See also أَلِهَ, in two places. ― -b2- وَلِهَ إِلَى أُمِّه He (an infant) yearned for his mother. (TA.) And وَلِهَ إِلَيْهِ is app. syn. with أَلِهَ إِلَيْهِ, q. v.
وَلَهٌ Distraction

Distraction in love: see حُبٌّ.
وَالِهٌ Bereft of the beloved

[Bereft of the beloved:] i. q. ثَاكِلٌ. (TA, art. طرب.) And Distracted.

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