lahowN * 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 laEibN : for ex., the hearing of musical instruments or the like is lahowN , but not laEobN . (TA.) ― -b2- A=lapu lahowK [ An instrument of diversion, meaning, of music ]. (K voce rabaAbN .)
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لَهْو
lahw
lahowN * 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 [
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- The Quran 10 · 0.78/10k
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- لَهْوًا Quran 21:17 (Al-Anbiya 17)
- لَهْوٌ Quran 29:64 (Al-'Ankabut 64)
- لَهْوَ Quran 31:6 (Luqman 6)
- لَهْوٌ Quran 47:36 (Muhammad 36)
- لَهْوٌ Quran 57:20 (Al-Hadid 20)
- لَّهْوِ Quran 62:11 (Al-Jumu'ah 11)
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