كلح
1 كَلَحَ,
aor. ـَ
inf. n. كُلُوحٌ and كُلَاحٌ; (
S,
K;) and ↓ تلكّح, and ↓ اكلح, (
K,) and ↓ اكلوّح; (A;) He (a man,
S) grinned, or displayed his teeth, (
M, rendered in the
S and
K by تَكَشَّرَ), frowning, or contracting his face, or looking sternly, austerely, or morosely. (
S,
M,
K.)
b2: كَلَحَ فِى وَجْهِهِ He frightened him; namely a child, and a madman. (
A.) 2 كلّح وَجْهَهُ He contracted his face much. (
A.) 3 مُكَالَحَةٌ [
inf. n. of كالحهُ He contended with him for superiority in strength;]
i. q. مُشَادَّةٌ. (
S.) [And so مُجَالَحَةٌ.]
4 أَكْلَحَهُ He (or it,
L) made him to grin, or display his teeth, frowning, or contracting his face, or looking sternly, austerely, or morosely. (
L,
K.)
b2: See 1.
5 تكلّح (
tropical:) He smiled: see 1. (
K.)
b2: Hence, (
TA,) تكلّح البَرْقُ (
tropical:) The lightning flashed in continued succession: (
S,
L,
K:) also, it continued, and became concealed, in a white cloud. (
L.) 13 see 1.
كَلَحَةٌ (
tropical:) The mouth and parts around it. So in the phrase مَا أَقْبَحَ كَلَحَتَهُ How ugly is his mouth with the parts around it! (
S,
K.) كَلَاحِ: see كُلَاحٌ.
كُلَاحٌ (
S,
K) and ↓ كَلَاحِ, the latter [
indecl.] like قَطَامِ, (
K,) (
tropical:) A year of dearth, scarcity, drought, sterility, or barrenness. (
S,
K.) Yousay أَصَابَتْهُمْ سَنَةٌ كُلَاحٌ A year of dearth, &c., befell them. (
TA.) See كَالِحٌ.
كَالِحٌ,
act. part. n. of 1.
b2: Also, Having the lip withdrawn from the teeth. (
Zj,
L.) So in the
Kur xxiii. 106,
accord. to
Zj. (
L.)
A2: دَهْرٌ كَالِحٌ (
tropical:) Severe, distressing, or afflictive, fortune, or time; (
S,
K;) as also ↓ كُلَاحٌ. (
TA.) كَوْلَحٌ Foul, unseemly, or ugly;
syn. قَبِيحٌ: (
K;) an
epithet applied to a man. (
TA.) بَلَآءٌ مُكْلِحٌ A trial, or an affliction, which, by its severity, makes men grin and frown. (
L, from a
trad.)
