1 لَهِىَ عَنْهُ ذ , (S, Msb, K) and لَهَا عنه (Msb, K,) He became diverted from it, so as to forget it. (S, Msb, K.) -b2- See an ex. voce استأثر : and see عَنْ . -b3- لَهَتْ إِلَى حَدِيثِهِ , inf. n. لَهْوٌ and لُهُوٌّ , She (a woman) was, or became, cheered, or delighted, and pleased, with his discourse. (M, K.) And so لَهَوْتُ بِحَدِيثِهِ . (T in art. رنو .)

4 أَلْهَانِى الشَّىْءُ ذ The thing diverted me; syn. شَغَلَنِى . (Msb.) -b2- أَلْهَاهُ بَالغِنَآءِ [ He diverted him by singing ]. (S, art. سمد .)

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

لَهْوٌ ذ 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- آلَةُ لَهْوٍ [ An instrument of diversion, meaning, of music ]. (K voce رَبَابٌ .)

لَهَاةٌ ذ [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 .