Encyclopaedia of Islam, Second Edition, Glossary and Index of Terms

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Glossary and Index of Terms treats the technical terms in Arabic, Persian, Turkish, Urdu and other languages or dialects of the Islamic world. As an index, it is of immeasurable importance, in particular for the many terms which are not given an entry but are discussed in the course of an article; and as glossary it is an invaluable source of information for both non-specialist, who is given an insight into the varied and rich vocabulary of Islam, and the specialist, who may discover surprising new contexts in which a term is used.

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laashin

(40 words)

laashin (Somali, pl. laashinno) : in the southern, mainly agriculturalist clans of Somalia, specific re…
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labab

(4 words)

labab Ḳarbūṣ
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labābīdī

(4 words)

labābīdī Lubūd
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labad

(4 words)

labad Ṣūf
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labān

(4 words)

labān Ṣadr
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laban

(51 words)

laban (A) : milk. In certain dialects, the distinction has arisen between Ḥalīb, milk, and ~, fully …
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labbād

(4 words)

labbād Lubūd
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labbāda

(4 words)

labbāda libda
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labda

(4 words)

labda Libd
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labin

(49 words)

labin (A), or libn : unfired brick whose use in building dates back to the earliest antiquity. The ~ ge…
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lad̲j̲ʾa

(28 words)

lad̲j̲ʾa (A) : in botany, ~ k̲h̲aḍrāʾ is the green turtle or true chelon ( Chelonia mydas) and ~ sahfiyya is the imbric…
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lād̲j̲ward

(7 words)

lād̲j̲ward : lapis lazuli. Parčīn-Kārī
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laffa

(14 words)

laffa (A) : a man’s turban cloth in the Arab East. Libās
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laffāf

(4 words)

laffāf Yatīma
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lafīf

(27 words)

lafīf (A) : in law, an ‘unsifted’ witness, neither a virtuous man nor a professional, more a ‘man in…
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lafūt

(27 words)

lafūt (A) : in zoology, a term used for two different types of fish: the lophot ( Lophotes) and the unicorn fish ( Lophotes…
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lafẓ

(117 words)

lafẓ (A) : lit. to spit out; in grammar, the actual expression of a sound or series of sounds, hence…
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lag̲h̲i̊m

(56 words)

lag̲h̲i̊m (T) : explosive mines of various types and sizes, an instrument of war used in the Ottoman empire. Bārūd lag̲h…
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lag̲h̲w

(7 words)

lag̲h̲w Ṣila lag̲h̲w al-yamīn Yamīn
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lāgmī

(36 words)

lāgmī : ‘palm-wine’, a drink in Arabia, extracted from the sap rising in the palm trunk. This very s…
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lahāt

(10 words)

lahāt (A) : in anatomy, the uvula. Maḳdis̲h̲ū
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laḥḥām

(4 words)

laḥḥām D̲j̲azzār
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lāḥib

(8 words)

lāḥib (A) : ‘clearly marked’. Waṣf
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lahīb

(16 words)

lahīb : in medicine, congestion (there is question as to its exact meaning). Ṣandal
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lāḥiḳ

(5 words)

lāḥiḳ Ḥud̲j̲d̲j̲a; Muḍāriʿ
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laḥn

(189 words)

laḥn (A) : a manner of speaking; in grammar, dialectical or regional variation, which was judged con…
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lāhūt

(47 words)

lāhūt (A) : divinity, the antithesis of nāsūt, humanity. Lahndā In the mystical thought of al-Ḥallād̲j̲, ~ mea…
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lahw

(7 words)

lahw (A) : amusement. Lāhūtī
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laʿib

(28 words)

laʿib (A) : play(ing), which came in Islam to be considered the exclusive prerogative of children, b…
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lāʾiḥa

(4 words)

lāʾiḥa Ḳānūn
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lāʾit

(4 words)

lāʾit Lūṭī
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laḳab

(37 words)

laḳab (A, pl. alḳab) : in onomastics, nickname or sobriquet, and at a later date under Islam and with m…
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laḳāniḳ

(19 words)

laḳāniḳ (A, < L), or naḳāniḳ : mutton sausages, containing little semolina and sold by naḳāniḳiyyūn. G̲h̲id̲h̲āʾ
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lak̲h̲m

(5 words)

lak̲h̲m Kalb Al-Baḥr
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lak̲h̲nāʾ

(4 words)

lak̲h̲nāʾ Baẓrāʾ
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laḳīṭ

(29 words)

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laksamana

(4 words)

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laḳṭ

(14 words)

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lā-ḳuwwa

(28 words)

lā-ḳuwwa (A) : in philosophy, inability or weakness, a translation of Aristotle’s ἀδυναμία; ~ predis…
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laḳwa

(16 words)

laḳwa (A) : facial paralysis. Nuḥām; in zoology, the female eagle (var. liḳwa). Uḥud
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laʿl

(15 words)

laʿl (A) : in mineralogy, a kind of ruby, according to al-Bīrūnī. Maʿdin
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lālā

(46 words)

lālā (P), or lala : a preceptor or tutor, espe…
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lāla

(5 words)

lāla S̲h̲aḳīḳat Al-Nuʿmān
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lālaka

(18 words)

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lalamiko

(11 words)

lalamiko (Sw) : in Swahili literature, an elegy. Mart̲h̲iya
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lāle devri

(53 words)

lāle devri (T) : ‘the Tulip Period’, the name given to one of the most colourful periods of the Ottom…
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lālla

(16 words)

lālla (Mor) : the name for women saints of Berber origin in Morocco. al-Mag̲h̲rib
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lām

(28 words)

lām (A) : the twenty-third letter of the Arabic…
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lamṭ

(25 words)

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laʿn

(4 words)

laʿn S̲h̲atm
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lanḍaī

(4 words)

lanḍaī Miṣrāʿ
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land̲j̲

(51 words)

land̲j̲ (A, < Eng ‘launch’), or lans̲h̲ : in Kuwayt, a motor launch provided with one or two sails, and em…
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langgar

(27 words)

langgar (J) : in Indonesia, a small mosque serving for the da…
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lans̲h̲

(4 words)

lans̲h̲ Land̲j̲ …
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lārī

(4 words)

lārī Larin
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larin

(72 words)

larin (P lārī) : the larin, a silver coin current in the Persian Gulf and Indian Ocean in the 16th and…
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lāsa

(30 words)

lāsa (A) : a woman’s head scarf of white silk or cotton net into which flat metal strips have been d…
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las̲h̲kar

(44 words)

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lās̲h̲ōn

(44 words)

lās̲h̲ōn (< Heb ‘tongue,…
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lassi

(4 words)

lassi Ayran
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lāṭī

(4 words)

lāṭī Lūṭī
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lāṭiʾa

(18 words)

lāṭiʾa (A) : a small, tight-fitting cap, but probably not the proper name for it. Tulband
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laṭīfa

(38 words)

laṭīfa (A, pl. laṭāʾif) : in mysticism, the ‘subtle organ’ (syn. ṭūr, pl. aṭwār), a theory of levels developed fr…
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laṭīm

(36 words)

laṭīm (A) : ‘knocked out of the enclosure by a bl…
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lāṭiniyya

(8 words)

lāṭiniyya (A) : Romance [language]. Ḳuḍāʿa
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lāṭis

(15 words)

lāṭis (A), or lūṭis : in zoology, the Nile perch ( …
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lawāḥiḳ

(4 words)

lawāḥiḳ Andargāh
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lawāṭa-kār

(4 words)

lawāṭa-kār Lūṭī
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lawḥ

(77 words)

lawḥ (A, pl. alwāḥ) : board, plank; tablet, table; school-child’s slate; blackboard. al-Lawātī; and K̲h̲as̲h̲aba In…
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lawn

(46 words)

lawn (A) : the general term used to express the concept of colour. Besides this precise sense, it al…
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lawṭa

(51 words)

lawṭa (A) : in music, an instrument of the lute type, with four…
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lawt̲h̲

(13 words)

lawt̲h̲ (A) : in law, the notion of serious presu…
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layālī

(4 words)

layālī Layl
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layḳ

(8 words)

layḳ (A) : ink well. Nīrand̲j̲
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layl

(320 words)

layl (A, pl. layālin) : nighttime, night (a…
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lāzim

(22 words)

lāzim (A) : in law, ‘binding’. ʿAḳd; Ṣaḥīḥ …
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lazma

(13 words)

lazma (A) : a curb-bit, part of the horse’s bridle. K̲h̲ayl
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lebaran

(35 words)

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leff

(89 words)

leff (A) : a term used in the Berber-speaking regions of central and southern Morocco (a different t…
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leh

(29 words)

…
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lewend

(46 words)

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