لبنه libna A (Heb. from White) 1. A brick or tile. 2. A mural quadrant.

لڙهيا luṛhiyā S̱. s. f. See لوڙها loṛhā.

لکهوٿا lakhauṭā S̱. (from लाक्षा) adj. Besmeared with lac. لکهوٿا کرنا lakhauṭā karnā, To smear with lac, to glaze.

لوهي lohī H s. f. 1. A lump, a mouthful. 2. A kind of silk-cloth. 3. Dawn just before sunrise.

لفاظ laffāz̤ A adj. (superl. of لفظ) Eloquent.

لنگڙا langṛā P. (from لنگ) adj. Lame, cripple. P. H. لنگڙانا langṛā-nā, v. n. To limp.

لگوا lagūʼā S̱. s. m. A paramour.

لـﮩاڙا lihāṛā H adj. Vile, base, mean, contemptible.

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

لال lāl S̱. 1. (r. लल Wish for, or लड Sport) adj. Darling, dear; s. m. An infant boy, a son. 2. (लाला) s. m. Spittle, saliva. 3. s. m. The name of a bird. (The male of Frin- gilla amandava). لال بجهکڙ lāl bujhakkaṛ, An intelligent person; one who comprehends quickly, or who readily divines what has happened or is to happen from certain symptoms; but, the term is generally used ironically for a wise- acre, an ignorant foolish person who pretends to more sense than his neighbours; as, in the following answer given by a person of this de- scription, when consulted respecting the marks of an elephantʼs feet in mire, by people who had never seen such an animal: يـﮩ توبوجهي لال بجهکڙ اورنه بوجهي کوي پاين چکي باندهکرمت هرنا کوداهوي Yih to būjhe lāl bujhakkaṛ aur na būjhe koʼe; pāyan chakkī bāndhkar mat harnā kūdā hoʼe. Lāl Bujhakkaṛ and none else can understand this; may not an antelope with a millstone tied to his feet have bounded here?