لَوْحٌ

A look; synonym نَظْرَةٌ; [or rather a glance, or light or quick look;] like لَمْحَةٌ. (K.)

-A2- See لُوحٌ

-A3- Any broad, or wide, and thin, thing, such as a board or plank or the like, of wood or of bone: (T, M, Msb, K:) plural أَلْوَاحٌ, and plural plural أَلَاوِيحُ. (K.) A word of this kind has not a plural of the measure أَفْعُلٌ, because dammeh to the و is disliked. (Sb.)

أَلْوَاحٌ i. q. لَوَايءِحُ, q. v.

The scapula or shoulder-blade, (T, S, Msb, K,) when it is written upon, or inscribed. (T, Msb, K.)

Any wide bone: (S, Msb:) or any bone of the body, except the bones called قَصَب of the arms and legs. (Msb.) See also مِلْوَاحٌ.

لَمْ يَبْقَ مِنْهُ إِلَّا الالواح (tropical:) There remained of him nothing but the wide bones. Said of one that is lean, or emaciated. (A.)

لَوْحُ الكَتِفِ The smooth part of the shoulder-blade, where its projecting part (عَيْر [so I read for غير, in the L]) terminates, in the upper portion. (L.)

لَوْحٌ That [meaning a tablet] upon which one writes. (S.)

كَتَبْنَا لَهُ فِى الأَلْوَاحِ [We wrote for him upon the tablets, or tables]. (Qur'an, 7:142.) They are said to have been two tablets; but it is allowable to call two tablets الواح. (Zj.)

اللَّوْحُ المَحْفُوظُ, mentioned in the Qur'an, [chap. lxxxv. last verse, The Preserved, or Guarded, Tablet, whereon are said to be inscribed all the divine decrees;] (tropical:) the depository of the decrees, or willed events, ordained by God: (TA:) or i. q. أُمُّ الكِتَابِ: or a light which appears to the angels, showing to them the things which they are commanded to do, and which they obey. (Msb.)