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لجّأ , inf. n. تَلْجِيءَةٌ , He forced a person to do a thing against his will: (S, K:) or, to do a thing which was contrary to what it appeared to be. (AHeyth.) ― -b2- تَلْجِيءَةٌ is also explained as signifying The leaving one's property to some one or more of his heirs, in preference to, or to the exclusion of, the other or others. لجّأ He so left his property. (ISh.) ― -b3- See 4.

الجأه اـِلى شَىْءٍ He constrained, compelled, forced, drove, or necessitated, him to have recourse to, or to betake himself to, or to repair to, or to do, a thing; he impelled him, or drove him, against his will, to it, or to do it; (S, * Mgh, Msb, K, * TA;) as also اـِلَيْهِ ↓ لجّاهُ . (Mgh, Msb.) ― -b2- الجأ أَمْرَهُ اـِلَى اللّٰهِ , (S, K,) and [ اـِلَى اللّٰهِ ] ↓ لَجَأَ , and ↓ التجأ , and ↓ تلجّأ (TA,) He referred, or committed, his affair to God. (S, K.) ― -b3- الجأه He protected him, defended him. (K.) Also said of a place, [It protected him; afforded him refuge.] (K, art. حرز .) ― -b4- الجأه اـِلَى شَىْءٍ is also said when one has defended another, [as] in a place of refuge; [and app. may be rendered He caused him to have recourse to a thing, as to a place of refuge]. (TA.)

تَلَجَّاَ see 1 and 4.

اـِلْتَجَاَ see 1 and 4.

لَجَأٌ and ↓ مَلْجَأٌ (S, K) and ↓ مُلْتَجَأٌ (K, art. لحد ; &c.) A place to which one has recourse for refuge, protection, preservation, concealment, covert, or lodging; a place of refuge; an asylum; a refuge. (S, K.) The hemzeh of the ↓ second is sometimes elided; and this is done to assimilate the word to مَنْجَا , when it is used therewith; like as منجا is written with hemzeh to assimilate it in the like case to مَلْجَأٌ . ― -b2- [↓ ملجأٌ is often applied to a man: and you say also,] فُلَانٌ حَسَنُ ↓ المَلْجَاـِ [Such a one is a good person to whom to have recourse for protection or concealment]. The pl. of لَجَأٌ is أَلْجَا=ءٌ . (TA.) ― -b3- لَجَأٌ (assumed tropical:) A wife. (L.) ― -b4- An heir. (ISh.) [See 2.] -A2- The frog: (K:) or a kind of tortoise, that lives on the land and in the sea: (M:) fem. with ة . (K.) The لجأة of the sea ( اللَّجَأَةُ البَحْرِيَّةُ ) is asserted to have a tongue in its breast, and to kill the animal that it strikes. (Dmr.)

مَلْجَأٌ and مُلْتَجَأٌ : see لَجَأٌ .