Arabic edit

Root
ل ح ن (l-ḥ-n)

Verb edit

لَحَنَ (laḥana) I, non-past يَلْحَنُ‎ (yalḥanu)

  1. to mispronounce; to smatter (a language)
  2. (obsolete, rhetoric) to give somebody [+ لِ (object)] a veiled hint of [+accusative]

Conjugation edit

Verb edit

لَحِنَ (laḥina) I, non-past يَلْحَنُ‎ (yalḥanu)

  1. to be intelligent, to have a good grasp [+ عَن (object) = of]

Conjugation edit

Verb edit

لَحَّنَ (laḥḥana) II, non-past يُلَحِّنُ‎ (yulaḥḥinu)

  1. to make music, to compose
  2. to set to music
  3. to remix
  4. to chant, to intone; to psalmodize
  5. to rhyme
  6. to accuse of mispronouncing or employing barbarisms in speaking

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Noun edit

لَحْن (laḥnm (plural أَلْحَان (ʔalḥān) or لُحُون (luḥūn))

  1. (archaic) tone or mode of speech, idiom, the characteristic way any animal or group sounds like
    • 609–632 CE, Qur'an, 47:30:
      فَلَعَرَفْتَهُم بِسِيمَاهُمْ وَلَتَعْرِفَنَّهُمْ فِي لَحْنِ ٱلْقَوْلِ
      falaʕaraftahum bisīmāhum walataʕrifannahum fī laḥni l-qawli
      Thou shouldst know them by their marks and thou shalt know them by the manner of their talk.
  2. mispronunciation, barbarism [from late 7th century]
    • 2005, محمود عكاشة, التحليل اللغوي في ضوء علم الدلالة: دراسة في الدلالة الصوتية، والصرفية، والنحوية، والمعجمية, Al Manhal, published 2011, →ISBN, page 119:
      وقد وقعت لحون في قراءة القرآن الكريم في عهد الصحابة رضوان الله عليهم ، فاستنكروها، لأنها قد أفسدت المعني
      (please add an English translation of this quotation)
  3. melody, tune [from 9th century]
  4. (obsolete, rhetoric) overtone, insinuation, hint, dog whistle [from 10th century]

Declension edit

Descendants edit

  • Maltese: leħen
  • Medieval Hebrew, Israeli Hebrew: לַחַן (laḥan, tune, melody)
  • Malay: lahan
  • Somali: laxaan

Noun edit

لَحَن (laḥanm

  1. intelligence, quickwittedness, nimbleness, verbal noun of لَحِنَ (laḥina)

Declension edit

Adjective edit

لَحِن (laḥin)

  1. intelligent, quick-witted, nimble

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