لو

لَوْ: see مَصْدَرِيَّةٌ. b2: It is used as an optative particle, لِلتَّمَنِّى. See Kur, ii. 162; and Jel, ibid. See also كَرَّةٌ. b3: لَوْ كَانَ هٰذَا لَكَانَ ذَاكَ Had this been, or if this were, that had been, or would have been. b4: صَلِّ وَلَوْ عَجَزْتَ عَنِ القِيَامِ means[Pray thou though thou be unable to stand; i. e.] pray thou whether thou be able to stand or unable to do so. (Msb in art. ان.) b5: See also exs. voce

أَنَّ, and بَلَّ. b6: لَوْ often begins a sentence ending with an aposiopesis. b7: لَوْ meaning أَنْ: see وَدَّ. b8: لَوْ تُسَوَّى بِهِمُ الأَرْضُ: see بِ as syn. with عَلَى.

لَوٌّ The word لَوْ: see a prov. cited voce ذَنَبٌ (near the end of the paragraph). And see سَوْفَ.

لَوْ أَنَّ [If]. Ex. لَوْ أَنَّكَ قَائِمٌ لَقُمْتُ [Hadst thou been standing, I had stood]. (K, art. ان.) See Kur, xxxix. 58; &c.

لَوْلَا and لَوْمَا: see حَضَّهُ. b2: لَوْلَا فَعَلْتُ كَذَا means Wherefore didst not thou such a thing? and لَوْلَا تَفْعَلُ كَذَا means Wherefore wilt not thou do such a thing? and in like manner, لَوْمَا and ألَّا and هَلَّا. See an ex. in the Kur, x. 98, explained in art. إِلَّا. b3: لَوْلَا هٰذَا لَكَانَ ذَاكَ Had not this been, or but for this, that had been, or would have been. b4: لَوْلَا is followed by a noun in the nom. case (as in the Kur, viii. 69), or by a verb, as in exs. above.

لَاتَ: see أَلَتَ.