ل ح ي

Arabic

Root

ل ح ي • (l-ḥ-y)

1. related to additional covering grown, like a bark or a beard

Derived terms

• Form I: لَحَى (laḥā, “to decorticate, to strip of the bark; to reprehend, to reprimand”)
  • Active participle: لَاحٍ (lāḥin)
  • Passive participle: مَلْحِيّ (malḥiyy)
• Form III: لَاحَى (lāḥā, “to reprehend, to reprimand”)
  • Verbal noun: مُلَاحَاة (mulāḥāh), لِحَاء (liḥāʔ)
  • Active participle: مُلَاحٍ (mulāḥin)
  • Passive participle: مُلَاحًى (mulāḥan)
• Form IV: أَلْحَى (ʔalḥā, “to come into the time where the bark is stripped; to commit something worthy of reprimand”)
  • Verbal noun: إِلْحَاء (ʔilḥāʔ)
  • Active participle: مُلْحٍ (mulḥin)
• Form VI: تَلَاحَى (talāḥā, “to reprehend each other, to reprimand each other”)
  • Verbal noun: تَلَاحٍ (talāḥin)
  • Active participle: مُتَلَاحٍ (mutalāḥin)
• Form VIII: اِلْتَحَى (iltaḥā, “to lead the beard grow”)
  • Verbal noun: اِلْتِحَاء (iltiḥāʔ)
  • Active participle: مُلْتَحٍ (multaḥin)
  • Passive participle: مُلْتَحًى (multaḥan)

• لِحْيَة (liḥya, “beard”)
• لَحْي (laḥy, “jawbone, maxilla”)
• لِحَاء (liḥāʔ, “bark”)
• مَلْحَاة (malḥāh, “note of infamy”)
• أَلْحَى (ʔalḥā, “of a long beard”)
• لِحْيَانِيّ (liḥyāniyy, “of a long beard”)

References

• Dozy, Reinhart Pieter Anne (1881) “ل ح ي”, in Supplément aux dictionnaires arabes‎^[1] (in French), volume 2, Leiden: E. J. Brill, pages 522–523
• Freytag, Georg (1837) “ل ح ي”, in Lexicon arabico-latinum praesertim ex Djeuharii Firuzabadiique et aliorum Arabum operibus adhibitis Golii quoque et aliorum libris confectum‎^[2] (in Latin), volume 4, Halle: C. A. Schwetschke, page 94
• Kazimirski, Albin de Biberstein (1860) “ل ح ي”, in Dictionnaire arabe-français contenant toutes les racines de la langue arabe, leurs dérivés, tant dans l’idiome vulgaire que dans l’idiome littéral, ainsi que les dialectes d’Alger et de Maroc‎^[3] (in French), volume 2, Paris: Maisonneuve et C^ie, page 979
• Steingass, Francis Joseph (1884) “ل ح ي”, in The Student's Arabic–English Dictionary‎^[4], London: W.H. Allen, page 913
• Wehr, Hans with Kropfitsch, Lorenz (1985) “ل ح ي”, in Arabisches Wörterbuch für die Schriftsprache der Gegenwart‎^[5] (in German), 5th edition, Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, published 2011, →ISBN, page 1148