لحد

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Arabic

Root
ل ح د (l ḥ d)
4 terms

Pronunciation

Noun

لَحْد (laḥdm (plural لُحُود (luḥūd) or أَلْحَاد (ʔalḥād))

  1. tombstone
  2. grave
    Synonym: قَبْر (qabr)
    • أُطْلُبُوا ٱلْعِلْمَ مِنَ ٱلْمَهْدِ إلَى ٱللَّحْدِ
      ʔuṭlubū l-ʕilma mina l-mahdi ʔilā l-laḥdi
      Seek ye knowledge from the cradle onto the grave.

Declension

Descendants

  • Ottoman Turkish: لحد (laḥd)
    > Turkish: lahit (inherited)
  • Uyghur: لەھەت (lehet)

Persian

Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic لَحْد (laḥd).

Pronunciation

Readings
Classical reading? lahd, lahaḏ
Dari reading? lahd, lahad
Iranian reading? lahd, lahad
Tajik reading? lahd, lahad

Noun

لحد (lahad)

  1. grave
    Synonyms: قبر (qabr), گور (gur)
    • c. 1390, Shams-ud-Dīn Muḥammad Ḥāfiẓ, “Ghazal 134”, in دیوان حافظ [The Divān of Ḥāfiẓ]‎:
      آه و فریاد که از چشم حسود مه چرخ
      در لحد ماه کمان ابرویِ من منزل کرد
      āh u faryād ki az čašm-i husūd-i mah-i čarx
      dar lahd māh-i kamān abrū-yi man manzil kard
      Woe and alas that the moon of heaven's envious eye
      Has made the grave the dwelling of my bow-browed moon .
      (Classical Persian transliteration)

Further reading

  • Hayyim, Sulayman (1934) “لحد”, in New Persian–English dictionary, Teheran: Librairie-imprimerie Béroukhim

South Levantine Arabic

Etymology

From لَ (la-, to) +‎ حَدّ (ḥadd, limit).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /la.ħad/,
  • Audio (Jerusalem):(file)

Preposition

لحدّ (la-ḥadd)

  1. until, as far as, up to
    Synonyms: لـ (la-), حتى (ḥatta)

Usage notes

  • In order to use لحدّ (la-ḥadd) as a conjunction (i.e. introducing a verbal phrase), it must be followed by the particle ما (ma).