تُرَّهَةٌ

A small road branching off from a main road: (As, S, K:) a Persian word, arabicized: (As, S:) plural تُرَّهَاتٌ (As, S, K) and تُرُّهَاتٌ. (TA.)

A [desert, such as is termed قَفْرٌ, (see 1,) or] مَفَازَةٌ, and صَحْرَاءُ. (JK.)

The first in this paragraph is the primary signification: (TA:) and hence, metaphorically, (As, S,) (tropical:) A false, or vain, saying or action or affair; (As, JK, S K;) as also ↓ تُرَّهٌ: (S, K:) plural of the former, تُرَّهَاتٌ (JK, S, K *) [and تُرُّهَاتٌ, as above]; and of the latter, تَرَارِيَهُ: (S, K: *) or the primary signification of تُرَّهَاتٌ is قِفَارٌ: [see 1:] and it is metaphorically applied to (tropical:) false, or vain, sayings or actions or affairs; (K;) and unprofitable sayings: (Z, K, TA:) or, according to Az, false, or vain, affairs: and the singular is ↓ تُرَّهٌ: or, according to IB, this last is plural of تُرَّهَةٌ: [or rather a coll. gen. n.:] or, as some say, it is a singular: (TA:) and according to Lth it signifies the act of lying, and confusing [truth and falsehood]. (Har p. 165.) [Sometimes it is followed by a synonym, to give greater force to the signification:] one says التُرَّهَاتُ البَسَابِسُ and التُرَّهَاتُ الصَّحَاصِحُ: and sometimes the former word is used as a prefixed noun governing the gen. case [so that one says تُرَّهَاتُ البَسَابِسُ and ترّهاتُ الصَّحَاصِحِ: الصَّحْصَحُ is mentioned in the K, in this article, as a synonym of التُّرَّهَةُ]. (S.)

Also A calamity; a misfortune; an evil accident: (JK, * K:) plural [تُرَّهَاتٌ and] تَرَارِيَهُ. (JK.)

Wind. (JK, K.)

Clouds, or a collection of clouds. (JK, * K.)

-A2- A certain small creeping thing (دُوَيْبَّة) [found] in the sand. (JK, K.)