ليت

• IPA^(key): /laj.ta/
• (Gulf Arabic) IPA^(key): /let/

لَيْتَ • (layta)

1. if only, I wish, would (would God) that...; expresses an unattainable wish

   لَيْتَكَ كُنْتَ مَعِي أَمْس!

   laytaka kunta maʕī ʔams!

   If only you had been with me yesterday!

   • 609–632 CE, Qur'an, 25:27-28:

     وَيَوْمَ يَعَضُّ ٱلظَّالِمُ عَلَى يَدَيْهِ يَقُولُ يَا لَيْتَنِي ٱتَّخَذْتُ مَعَ ٱلرَّسُولِ سَبِيلًا
     يَا وَيْلَتَى لَيْتَنِي لَمْ أَتَّخِذْ فُلَانًا خَلِيلًا

     wa-yawma yaʕaḍḍu ẓ-ẓālimu ʕalā yadayhi yaqūlu yā laytanī ttaḵaḏtu maʕa r-rasūli sabīlan
     yā waylatā laytanī lam ʔattaḵiḏ fulānan ḵalīlan

     And (beware of) the Day the wrongdoer will bite his nails (in regret) and say, “Oh! I wish I had followed the way along with the Messenger! Woe to me! I wish I had never taken that one as a friend.

   • 609–632 CE, Qur'an, 69:25-27:

     وَأَمَّا مَنْ أُوتِيَ كِتَابَهُ بِشِمَالِهِ فَيَقُولُ يَا لَيْتَنِي لَمْ أُوتَ كِتَابِيَهْ
     وَلَمْ أَدْرِ مَا حِسَابِيَهْ
     يَا لَيْتَهَا كَانَتِ ٱلْقَاضِيَةَ

     wa-ʔammā man ʔūtiya kitābahu bi-šimālihi fayaqūlu yā laytanī lam ʔūta kitābiyah
     wa-lam ʔadri mā ḥisābiyah
     yā laytahā kānati l-qāḍiyata

     And as for those given their record in their left hand, they will cry (bitterly), “Oh! I wish I had not been given my record, nor known anything of my reckoning! Oh! I wish it (death) was the end!

   • 609–632 CE, Qur'an, 78:40:

     إِنَّا أَنْذَرْنَٰكُمْ عَذَابًا قَرِيبًا يَوْمَ يَنْظُرُ ٱلْمَرْءُ مَا قَدَّمَتْ يَدَاهُ وَيَقُولُ ٱلْكَافِرُ يَا لَيْتَنِي كُنْتُ تُرَابًا

     ʔinnā ʔanḏarnākum ʕaḏāban qarīban yawma yanẓuru l-marʔu mā qaddamat yadāhu wa-yaqūlu l-kāfiru yā laytanī kuntu turāban

     Indeed, We have warned you of an imminent punishment—the Day every person will see [the consequences of] what their hands have done, and the disbelievers will cry, “I wish I were dust.”

لَيْتَ (layta) must be followed by a pronoun or noun shifted to the accusative case.

• لَيْتَ شِعْرِي (layta šiʕrī)

• (ʔinna and her sisters) إِنَّ وَأَخَوَاتُهَا (ʔinna wa-ʔaḵawātuhā); إِنَّ (ʔinna), أَنَّ (ʔanna), لٰكِنَّ (lākinna), كَأَنَّ (kaʔanna), لِأَنَّ (liʔanna), لٰكِنَّ (lākinna), لَعَلَّ (laʕalla), لَيْتَ (layta), ^{(Category: Sisters of ʾinna)}
• تَمَنَّى (tamannā)

From English light.

• (Kuwait) IPA^(key): /leːt/

ليت • (lēt) m (dual ليتين (lētēn), plural ليتات (lētāt))

1. light