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لَعِبَ , aor.
لَعَبَ , inf. n.
لَعِبٌ (which is the
original [and most common] form, TA) and
لِعْبٌ
(S, K: the latter of these inf. ns. contracted
from the former, Msb) and
لَعْبٌ (K: also contracted from the first: not heard by IKt; but
authorized by Mekkee, and, accord. to him,
agreeable with a constant rule, applicable in the
case of any word of a similar measure having a
guttural letter as its medial radical, whether a
noun or verb: (TA:) and
أُلْعُوبَةٌ (S, K) and
تَلْعَابٌ; (K; but this last has an intensive, or a
frequentative, signification; S;) and ↓
لعّب (K)
and ↓
تلعّب (S, K: but this last has a frequentative [or an intensive] signification; S; [and so
too has that immediately preceding it;]) and
↓
تلاعب; (K;)
He played, sported, gamed, jested,
or
joked: contr. of جَدَّ, which signifies “ he was
serious, or in earnest. ” (K.) [You say]
بَيْنَهُمْ أُلْعُوبَةٌ
Between them is playing, sporting, or
the like.
(K.) [And so] ↓
لَاعَبَهَا, (inf. n.
مُلَاعَبَةٌ and
لِعَابٌ,
TA,)
He played, sported, gamed, jested, or
joked, with her: (K:) [
he toyed, dallied, or
wantoned, with her:] and
لَاعَبْتُ الرَّجُلَ, inf. n.
ملاعبة,
I played, &c., with the man. (S) ―
2-b2-
لَعِبَتِ الرِّيحُ بِالمَنْزِلِ, and ↓
تَلَاعَبَت, (tropical:) [
The wind
sported with the lighting-place, or
place of abode]:
i. e.,
obliterated the traces of it. (TA.) ―
2-b3-
لَعِبَ
بِنَا المَوْجُ [
The waves sported with us]: the commotion of the waves is called “ sporting ” because
it does not convey the voyagers to the quarter
whither they desire to go. (TA, from a trad.) ＝
1-A2-
لَعَبَ, (and
لَعِبَ, K,) aor.
لَعَبَ , inf. n.
لَعْبٌ; (S,
K;) and ↓
العب; (K;)
He (a child, S)
slavered;
drivelled; emitted a flow of slaver or
drivel from
his mouth. (S, K.) The first word is the most
approved: (TA:) or
العب ↓
الصَّبِىُّ signifies
the
child became slavering, or
drivelling. (S.)