لڙيانا laṛiyānā H v. a. To thread, to string.

لڙهيانا luṛhiyānā H v. a. To double hem a gar- ment.

لٿوريان laṭūriyāṅ H s. f. plur. Tangled short hair.

لوگ log S̱. s. m. See لوک lok, People, folk.

لنگر langar H s. m. The raphe of the perineum.

لٿانا luṭānā S̱. v. a. 1. (causal of لوٿنا lūṭnā) To squander, to spend or expend, to cause to plun- der or be plundered. 2. (causal of لوٿنا loṭnā) To cause to wallow or roll about.

لوندا londā H s. m. A lump of clay, clod.

لثه lis̤a A s. The gums.

لزوم luzūm A s. m. Expediency, necessity, re- quisiteness, behoving.

ل lām the twenty-third letter of the Arabic, and twenty-seventh of the Persian alphabet, corres- ponds to ल in Sanskrit. It is one of the eight dental letters in Arabic, and its sound is that of the English l. In the denotation of numbers by the letters of the Arabic alphabet, it stands for 30: and, by way of abbreviation, it may repre- sent the month شوال. Its permutations are, 1. In Persian and Hindūstānī into ر and vice versa; as, زرو zarū for زلو zalū, A leech; بار for بال Hair; ديوال for ديوار A wall; تلوار for تروار A sword. 2. In Arabic, in