تِيهٌ
1.
[originally a verbal noun: see 1, throughout:] A
مَفَازَة [i. e. desert, or waterless desert, &c.,] (S, Msb, K) in which one loses his way, (S,) wherein is no sign, or mark, whereby one may be guided therein; as also
تَيْهَاءُ: (Msb:) plural أَتْيَاهٌ and أَتَاوِيهٌ, (S, K,) the latter of which is a plural of the former plural, (TA,) and أَتَاوِهَةٌ. (Meyd, in Freytag's Lex.) [Hence,] التِّيهُ, [also called تِيهُ بَنِى
إِسْرَايءِيلَ,] The place [or desert] in which the Children of Israel lost their way, between Egypt and the 'Akabeh [at the head of the eastern gulf of the Red Sea], unable to find the way of egress from it. (TA.)
2.
أَرْضٌ تِيهٌ and
تَيْهٌ and
تَيْهَاءُ (K) and
مَتِيهَةٌ, (S, K,) originally [مَتْيِهَةٌ,] of the measure مَفْعِلَةٌ, (S,) and
مُتِيهَةٌ and
مَتْيَهَةٌ and
مَتْيَةٌ (K) and
مُتْيِهَةٌ (TA) A land wherein one loses his way, (S, K, TA,) wide, and having in it no signs, or marks, of the way, nor mountains nor hills. (TA.) And
بَلَدٌ أَتْيَهُ
A country to which, and in which, one cannot find his way. (TA.)