لاوذ القَوْمُ
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, (S, L,) verbal noun مُلَاوَذَةٌ and لِوَاذٌ, (S, L, K,) with which تَلْوَاذٌ is synonym, (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 Qur'an, 24:63: were it from لَاذَ, it would be لِيَاذًا. (S, L.)
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See 1.
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لاوذ بِهِمْ, verbal noun مُلَاوَذَةٌ, He went round about them, or encompassed them. (Msb.) See also 1.
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لاوذهُمْ (M, L) and بِهِمْ
لَاذَ, and
الاذ, (M,) He wheedled, beguiled, or deluded, them; synonym دَارَاهُمْ. (M, L.) لاوذ
He eluded, and shunned, or avoided, thee: synonym رَاغَ عَنْكَ, and حَادَ Agreeably with this explanation, or as signifying مراوغة, some render لِوَاذًا in the Qur'an, 24:63. (Ibn-Is-Seed, TA.)
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لاوذهُ, (TK,) verbal noun 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;) synonym خَالَفَهُ, (TK,) verbal noun خِلَافٌ. (L, K.) Agreeably with this explanation, Zj renders لِوَاذًا in the Qur'an, 24:63; saying that the meaning which he thus assigns to it is shown to be the true one by the words immediately following. (L.)