Arabic

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Root
ل ح ن (l ḥ n)
4 terms

Etymology 1.1

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لَحَنَ (laḥana) I (non-past يَلْحَنُ (yalḥanu), verbal noun لَحْن (laḥn))

  1. to mispronounce; to smatter (a language)
  2. (obsolete, rhetoric) to give [with لِ (li) ‘someone’] a veiled hint of [with accusative ‘something’]
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Etymology 1.2

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Verb

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لَحِنَ (laḥina) I (non-past يَلْحَنُ (yalḥanu), verbal noun لَحَن (laḥan))

  1. to articulate eloquently (an argument)
  2. to be intelligent, to have a good grasp [with عَن (ʕan) ‘of something’]
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Etymology 1.3

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لَحَّنَ (laḥḥana) II (non-past يُلَحِّنُ (yulaḥḥinu), verbal noun تَلْحِين (talḥīn))

  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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Etymology 1.4

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Noun

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

Etymology 1.5

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Noun

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لَحَن (laḥanm

  1. intelligence, quickwittedness, nimbleness, verbal noun of لَحِنَ (laḥina)
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Etymology 1.6

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Adjective

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لَحِن (laḥin)

  1. intelligent, quick-witted, nimble
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