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.
