لَاثَ

, aorist يَلُوثُ, verbal noun لَوْثٌ, He folded a thing: (IAar, IKt:) and twisted it. (IAar.) These are the original meanings. (IAar, IKt.)

He turned a thing round twice; as a turban is turned round, and an إِزَار. (TA.)

He bound, or wound round, a turban. (K.) You say لَاثَ العَمِامَةَ عَلَى رَأْسِهِ, aorist and verbal noun as above, He bound, or wound round, the turban on his head. (S.)

لَاثَ الوَبَرَ بِالفَلْكَةِ He wound the camel's hair round the whirl of the spindle. (TA.)

الأَسْقِيَةُ الِتَّى تُلَاثُ عَلَى أَفْوَاهِهَا The skins that are bound and tied round their mouths. (TA, from a tradition)

لَاثَ, aorist يَلُوثُ, He (a man) went round about; synonym دَارَ. (S.)

لَاثَ بِشَىْءٍ He went round about a thing; synonym طاف به. (TA.)

لَاثَ بِهِ النَّاسُ, and ↓ الاث, The people collected around him. (TA, from a tradition)

لَاثَتْ قَرُنًا مِنْ قُرُونِهَا بِالدُّهْنِ She surrounded, or, as some say, intermixed [one of her locks of hair with ointment]. (TA, from a tradition)

لَاثَ, and ↓ الاث, and ↓ التاث, It (a plant, or tree, or herbage,) became tangled and luxuriant. (TA.)

لَاثَ, aorist يَلُوثُ, verbal noun لَوْثٌ, He rolled about a morsel of food in melted fat or the like. (K.)

لَاثَ, aorist يَلُوثُ, verbal noun لَوْثٌ, He chewed, or mumbled, a thing; synonym لَاكَ; (K;) such as a morsel of food, &c. (TA)

لَاثَهُ المَطَرُ, and ↓ لوّثهُ, The rain laid it, or mixed it, (i. e., a plant,) part over particle (TA.)

لَاثَ, aorist يَلُوثُ, verbal noun لَوْثٌ; (K;) or لَوِثَ, [aorist يَلْوَثُ,] verbal noun لَوَثٌ; (L;) and ↓ التاث, (S, K,) He was slow, or tardy, (S, K,) فِى عَمَلِهِ in his work, (S,) or فِى الأَمْرِ in the affair. (K.)

↓ التاث He (a camel) was slow, or tardy and languid. (TA, from a tradition)

لَاثَ عَنْ حَاجَتِى He was slow, tardy, or tedious, in accomplishing my want. (TA.)

لَاثَ لَوْثًا مِنَ الكَلَامِ He twisted his speech, and did not make it plain by reason of shame. (IKt, TA, from a tradition) [Similarly, فى كَلَامِهِ ↓ التاث. (A.)]

لَاثَ He was slow in speech, and heavy in tongue. (TA.)

See 8.

لَاثَ الدَّارَ, aorist يَلُوثُ, verbal noun لَوْثٌ, He kept to the house. (K.)

لَاثَ, aorist يَلُوثُ, verbal noun لَوْثٌ; and ↓ لوّث, verbal noun تَلْوِيثٌ; He mixed, and steeped, or macerated, in water. (K.)

لَاثَ بِهِ, aorist يَلُوثُ, (verbal noun لَوْثٌ, K,) He took refuge in him; had recourse to him for protection or concealment: (S, K:) i. q. لَاذَ: (S:) according to Yaakoob, the ث here is a substitute for the ذ of لاَذَ. (TA.)