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أَلْهَانِى الشَّىْءُ The thing diverted me; syn. شَغَلَنِى . (Msb.) ― -b2- أَلْهَاهُ بَالغِنَا=ءِ [He diverted him by singing]. (S, art. سمد .)

تَلَهَّى بَالشَّىْءِ i. q. تَعَلَّلَ : (TA:) and أُولِعَ بِهِ . (Msb.) ― -b2- And تَلِّهَى He diverted himself. (TA.)

لَهْوٌ Diversion; pastime; sport; play: or especially, such as is vain, or frivolous; idle sport: (from various explanations:) what occupies a man so as to divert him from that which would render him sad or solicitous, &c.: (TA:) or relief of the mind by means which wisdom does not require: this [it is said] is the original signification: (Et-Tarasoosee, Msb:) a thing in which a man delights himself, and which occupies him so as to divert him, and then ceases. (KT.) It has a more general application than لَعِبٌ : for ex., the hearing of musical instruments or the like is لَهْوٌ , but not لَعْبٌ . (TA.) ― -b2- ا=لَةُ لَهْوٍ [An instrument of diversion, meaning, of music]. (K voce رَبَابٌ .)

لَهَاةٌ [The uvula;] the red piece of flesh that hangs down from the upper حَنَكِ . (Zj, in his Khalk el-Insán.) See also الأَسَالِقُ , and شِقْشِقةٌ . ― -b2- اللَهُاة [generally expl. as meaning The uvula: or] what is between the end of the root of the tongue and the end of the قَلْب [thus in all the copies of the K that I have seen, an evident mistranscription for قَلْت , i. e. hollow] of the upper part of the mouth (K: [app. meaning the arches, or pillars, of the soft palate; agreeably with the next explanation here following:]) or the furthest part of the mouth: [see غُنّةٌ :] and, of the he-camel, the شِقْشِقَة [i. e. bursa faucium]. (JK.) See also a usage of the pl., لَهَواتٌ , in the last explanation of قَلْتٌ .

لُهْوَةٌ What is thrown, [i. e. the quantity of corn that is thrown,] (S, K,) by the grinder, with his hand, (S,) into the mouth of the mill or millstone. (S, K.) And The mouth [itself] of the mill or mill-stone. (IKtt, TA; and S voce اخُرٌّ .)