ل ح ن
Arabic
editEtymology
editUnknown. Also, the meaning of quickwittedness is much rarer than sound meanings and etymologically separate; it is not possible to derive it from the sense of an overtone or veiled hint only the intelligent would grasp because this is a transferred technical sense postdating it by centuries.
Root
editل ح ن • (l-ḥ-n)
- related to rendering sounds by which something or someone is recognized
- related to quickwittedness
Derived terms
edit- Verbs
- Form I: لَحَنَ (laḥana, “to smatter”)
- Form I: لَحِنَ (laḥina, “to have a good grasp”)
- Form II: لَحَّنَ (laḥḥana, “to make music; to accuse of mispronouncing or employing barbarisms in speaking”)
- Form III: لَاحَنَ (lāḥana, “to hint at or to”)
- Verbal noun: مُلَاحَنَة (mulāḥana)
- Active participle: مُلَاحِن (mulāḥin)
- Passive participle: مُلَاحَن (mulāḥan)
- Form IV: أَلْحَنَ (ʔalḥana, “to give someone to understand, to hint to; to give to, to provide with”)
- Form VI: تَلَاحَنَ (talāḥana, “to employing barbarisms in speaking with each other”)
- Verbal noun: تَلَاحُن (talāḥun)
- Active participle: مُتَلَاحِن (mutalāḥin)
- Passive participle: مُتَلَاحَن (mutalāḥan)
- Nouns and adjectives
- لَحْن m (laḥn, “manner of speech; melody; overtone, hint; barbarism in language”)
- مَلَاحِن (malāḥin, “equivocations, using the same term in distinct meanings”, plurale tantum)
- لُحَنَة (luḥana, “somebody who mispronounces regularly or employs barbarisms”), also لَحَّان (laḥḥān) and even pro masculino لَحَّانَة (laḥḥāna)
- أَلْحَن (ʔalḥan, “speaking worse; singing better; quicker-witted”)
- لَحِن (laḥin, “quick-witted”)
References
edit- Freytag, Georg (1837) “ل ح ن”, in Lexicon arabico-latinum praesertim ex Djeuharii Firuzabadiique et aliorum Arabum operibus adhibitis Golii quoque et aliorum libris confectum[1] (in Latin), volume 4, Halle: C. A. Schwetschke, page 94
- Ullmann, Manfred (1973–1983) Wörterbuch der klassischen arabischen Sprache. Band II (in German), Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, pages 377–393
- Ullmann, Manfred (1979) Wa-ḫairu l-ḥadīṯi mā kāna laḥnan (Beiträge zur Lexikographie des Klassichen Arabisch Nr. 1; Sitzungsberichte der Bayerischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Philosophisch-Historische Klasse, Heft 9)[2] (in German), München: Verlag der Bayerischen Akademie der Wissenschaften in Kommission bei der C.H. Beck’schen Verlagsbuchhandlung, →ISBN