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1 program, project; 2 bill, motion (esp., in parliament); 3a order, decree, edict; b ordinance; c regulation, rule; 4 pl. lawāʔiḥᵘ, outward appearance, looks, outward sign – WehrCowan1976

conc

▪ Formed on the FāʕiLaẗ pattern, lāʔiḥaẗ is evidently a PA I.f, most likely from ↗¹lāḥa ‘to appear, be(come) visible; to shine, flash, glimmer, sparkle; to seem, appear’, thus originally meaning *‘the flashing one’. The connection between the modern meanings and the basic *‘becoming visible, appearing, flashing up’ becomes clear in the light of the D-stem, lawwaḥa ‘(*to let appear, let flash up >) to flourish, brandish, swing, wave, make a sign, signal’ (also with s.th. to eat or drink, to feed a child) and ^†milwāḥ ‘lure, decoy’ (< *s.th. waved with to attract attention, lure, entice). A lāʔiḥaẗ is thus, originally, *‘s.th. flashing up, letting appear an idea of s.th., a sketch, an outline of it’, a draft giving a first idea.
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hist

▪ ^†lāʔiḥaẗ ‘outward appearance, feature’ (Lane, Hava1899), pl. ^†lawāʔiḥᵘ l-šayʔ ‘apparent, visible, external parts of s.th.’ (WKAS ii).
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cogn

▪ ↗¹lāḥa
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disc

▪ See above, section CONC.
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deriv

►lāʔiḥaẗ qānūniyyaẗ, lāʔiḥaẗ al-qānūn, n.f., bill, draft law;
►lāʔiḥaẗ al-safar, timetable, train schedule, railroad guide;
►lāʔiḥaẗ al-ṭaʕām (SyrAr) menu, bill of fare

For other values attached to the root, cf. ↗¹lāḥa, ↗²lāḥa, ↗lawḥ, and ↗lawḥaẗ, as well as, for the overall picture, root entry ↗√LWḤ.

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