لوکي laukī H s. f. A kind of pumpion. See لوکا laukā.

لونيا lūniyā H s. m. 1. A pioneer. 2. (from Sans. लवण) A salt-maker. 3. Name of a tribe or cast of Baniyās.

لـﮩب lahab A (Heb. ) s. m. 1. Flame. 2. Flying or ascending (as, dust).

لحم laḥm A (Heb. ) 1. s. m. Flesh, meat. 2. Solder. 3. ¶ laḥim, adj. Carnivorous.

لانک lānk H s. f. 1. Quantity, measure. 2. The loins. 3. Birdlime. 4. Chaff.

لوبهي लोभी lobhī S adj. Covetous, avaricious.

للکار lalkār H s. f. Call, bawl, challenge.

لگتا لگت lagtā-lagat S̱. adv. (dakh. i. q. پي درپي) One after another, successively (?).

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

لاٿ lāṭ S̱. s. f. An obelisk, a pillar. See لاٿهہ.