ل ع ب

لَاْعَبَ see 1.

أَلْعَبَهَا He made her to play, sport, or game, &c., (with him: accord. to the CK:) or he brought her a thing with which to play, &c. (K.) -A2- See 1.

تلعّب He played time after time. (S.) See 1.

تَلَاْعَبَ see 1.

استلعبت النَّخْلَةُ The palm-tree produced some unripe dates after its other we had been cut off: (K:) or produced, or put forth, a spadix or more, having yet upon it some remains of its first produce of fruit. (Aboo-Sa'eed.)

لَعْبٌ for عَلْبٌ : see the latter.

لِعْبٌ : see لَعِبٌ

لَعِبٌ and ↓ لِعِبٌ (with two kesrehs, agreeably with a constant rule obtaining in cases of this kind, [whereby the measure فَعِلٌ is changed into فِعِلٌ , the medial radical letter being a guttural,] TA, [but in the CK and a MS. copy, ↓ لِعْبٌ , which is also regularly changed from the first,]) and ↓ أُلْعُبَانٌ and ↓ لُعَبَةٌ (K) and ↓ لُعْبَةٌ (TA, as from the K, [but not found by me in any copy of the latter work,]) and ↓ تِلْعِيبَةٌ and ↓ تِلْعَابٌ (K) and ↓ تِلْعَابَةٌ (S, K) and ↓ تَلْعَابٌ and ↓ تَلْعَابَةٌ and ↓ تِلِعَّابٌ and ↓ تِلِعَّابَةٌ (K: the last like تِلِقَّامَةٌ : the ة is added to give [additional] intensiveness to the signification, as in the cases of عَلَّامَةٌ and نَسَّابَةٌ : it is also used by En-Nábighah El-Jaadee in the place of an inf. n.: TA) and ↓ لَعُوبٌ [which is common to both genders] and ↓ لَعَّابٌ (A, &c.) One who plays, sports, games, jests, or jokes, much, or often; a great player, sporter, &c. (S, K.)

لِعِبٌ : see لَعِبٌ .

لَعْبَةٌ (Th, S) and ↓ لُعْبَةٌ (ISk, S, K) A turn in play, in a game, &c.; a single act of a play or game &c. (S, K, &c.) [You say] ↓ لِمَنَ اللُّعْبَةُ [Whose turn is it to play?] with dammeh to the ل , because it is a subst.; (ISk;) [and] أُقْعُدْ أَفْرُغَ مِنْ ↓ هٰذِهِ اللُّعْبَةِ [Sit until I finish this turn of the game]: but accord. to Th, it is better to say من هذه اللَّعْبَةِ , with fet-hah; because what is meant is a single turn in the game. (S.) ― -b2- لَعِبْتُ لَعْبَةً وَاحِدَةً [I played one game]. (Fr.) -A2- اللَّعْبَةُ البَرْبَرِيَّةُ (in some copies of the K, ↓ اللُّعْبَةُ ) A certain medicine, resembling what is called السُّورَنْجَانُ , which fattens. (K.)

لُعْبَةٌ Anything with which one plays, as شِطْرَنْج and the like, (S, K,) and نَرْد . (S.) See also لَعْبَةٌ . ― -b2- A man with whom one plays, sports, or jests: (K:) one who is a laughing-stock: (TA:) a stupid fellow, or fool, whom one mocks, laughs at, or ridicules; a stupid laughing-stock (K.) ― -b3- An image or effigy [with which to play: a puppet: so the word signifies in the present day]. (K.) [It was probably sometimes applied to A crucifix. And hence, or perhaps from its resemblance to a man with outstretched arms, it is applied by some post-classical writers to A cross; and anything in the form of a cross.] ― -b4- The image that is seen in the black of the eye when a thing faces it; also called عَيْرٌ . (Aboo-Tálib, in L, art. عير .) ― -b5- See لَعِبٌ .

لِعْبَةٌ A mode, or manner, of playing, sporting, gaming, &c. You say, فُلَانٌ حَسَنُ اللِّعْبَةِ [Such a one has a good manner of playing, &c. (S.)

لُعَبَةٌ : see لَعِبٌ .

لُعَابٌ What flows from the mouth; slaver; drivel. (S, K.) ― -b2- [Mucilage of plants. See S, art. لزج &c.] ― -b3- لُعَابُ النَّخْلِ (tropical:) The honey of the date-palm. (S, K.) ― -b4- لُعَابُ الشَّمْسِ (tropical:) A thing (that one sees, TA) as though descending from the sky, at the time of the mid-day heat; (K;) what one sees in a time of intense heat, resembling cobwebs: [i. e. gossamer:] also said to be the سَرَاب , or mirage: (S:) it is what is called مُخَاطُ الشَّيْطَانِ , and سَهَامٌ , and رِيقُ الشَّمْسِ , resembling threads, seen in the air when the heat is intense and the air calm: and he who asserts the لعاب الشمس to be the سراب says what is false; for that is the سراب that is seen at mid-day resembling running water: only he knows these things who has been constantly in the deserts, and has journeyed during the mid-day heats. (Az.) [In Egypt, in very hot and calm weather, I have seen, though very rarely, great quantities of the filmy substances above mentioned, resembling delicate and silky white cobwebs, generally of stringy forms, floating in the air.]

جَارِيَةٌ لَعُوبٌ A playful, sportive, or gamesome, damsel: (S:) one who coquets prettily, with affected coyness: (K:) pl. لَعَايءِبُ . (TA.) See also لَعِبٌ .

لَعَّابٌ One whose business or occupation is playing, gaming, or the like; a player by profession. (TA.) See also لَعِبٌ .

لَاعِبٌ Playing, sporting, gaming, jesting, or joking. (TA.) See also لَعِبٌ . ― -b2- لَا يَأْخُذَنَّ أَحَدُكُمْ مَتَاعَ أَخِيهِ لَاعِبًا جَادًّا [By no means shall any one of you take the property of his brother in play (and) in earnest]: by this is meant taking a thing without meaning to steal it, but meaning to vex and anger the owner; so that the taker is in play with respect to theft, but in earnest in annoying. (TA, from a trad.) ― -b3- اـِنَّمَا أَنْتَ لَاعِبٌ [Thou art only playing]: said to anyone who does what is unprofitable. (TA.)

أُلْعُوبَةٌ A thing with which one plays (Mz, 40th نوع .) [See also لُعْبَةٌ .] ― -b2- Also an inf. n. of لَعِبَ . (S, K.)

أُلْعَبَانٌ : see لَعِبٌ .

مَلْعَبٌ A place of playing, sporting, gaming, or the like; a place where plays, games, or sports, are performed: (S, K:) pl. مَلَاعِبُ . (TA.) ― -b2- مَلَاعِبُ الرِّيحِ [pl. (tropical:) The sporting-places of the wind;] places where the wind blows, or has blown, vehemently: syn. مَدَارِجُهَا . (K.) ― -b3- تَرَكْتُهُ فِى مَلَاعِبِ الجِنِّ (tropical:) [I left him in the sporting-places of the Jinn, or genii]: i. e., in such a place that he did not know where he was. (TA.)

مُلْعِبَةٌ and (as in the CK and a MS. copy) ↓ مِلْعَبَةٌ A garment without sleeves, in which a boy plays. (K.)

مُلَعِّبٌ [Exuding mucilage]; applied to a plant: likened to a foolish person slavering: (TA, in art. حمق .) [See البَقْلَةُ الحَمْقَاءُ in art. حمق .]

مُلَاعِبُ ظِلِّهِ A certain bird; (S, K;) found in the desert; (TA;) sometimes called خَاطِفُ ظِلِّهِ , (S, Msb,) [see art. خطف ,] because of the swiftness with which it pounces down: it has a green (or gray, أَخْضَر ,) back, white belly, long wings, and short neck. (Msb.) Of two you say مُلَاعِبَا ظِلَّيْهِمَا ; and of three, مُلَاعِبَاتُ أَظْلَالِهِنَّ ; because the appellation becomes determinate. (TA. [But see ظِلٌّ .])

ثَغْرٌ مَلْعُوبٌ Teeth, or fore teeth, &c., having slaver or drivel, upon or about them. (S, K.)

تَلعَابٌ and تِلْعَابٌ , تَلْعَابَةٌ and تِلْعَابَةٌ , تِلْعِيبَةٌ , تِلِعَّابٌ and تِلِعَّابَةٌ , see لَعِبٌ .