To give a reply which was not called for, shift, shun a question, conceal, diminish, withold, prevent.
Al-Lat - female idol of the pagan Arabs, the prototype of the Greek semi-goddess Leto, one of the wives of Zeus and mother of Apollo.
Allat, also spelled Allatu, Alilat, Allāt, and al-Lāt (Arabic: اللات‎‎ pronounced [ælˈlæːt]) is the name of a goddess worshipped in pre-Islamic Arabia. Together with Manāt and al-‘Uzzá, she was one of the three chief goddesses of Mecca. Her name, which is Arabic for the Goddess appears to indicate that she was the pre-Islamic consort of Allah, and therefore the Arabic equivalent of Elat or Asherah, the traditional consort of the Semitic god El. In older sources, she is identified with the Sumerian goddess Ereshkigal. The Greeks equated her with Athena and Aphrodite.