لسان

From the root ل س ن (l-s-n). From Proto-Semitic *lišān-.

Cognate with Hebrew לשון (lashón).

• IPA^(key): /li.saːn/

• Audio:

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لِسَان • (lisān) m or f (plural أَلْسِنَة (ʔalsina) or أَلْسُن (ʔalsun))

1. (anatomy) tongue
   • 609–632 CE, Qur'an, 90:8-10:

     أَلَمْ نَجْعَلْ لَهُ عَيْنَيْنِ / وَلِسَانًا وَشَفَتَيْنِ / وَهَدَيْنَاهُ النَّجْدَيْنِ

     ʔalam najʕal lahū ʕaynayni / walisānan wašafatayni / wahadaynāhu n-najdayni

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

2. (metonymically) language

   Synonym: لُغَة (luḡa)

   • 609–632 CE, Qur'an, 30:22:

     وَمِنْ آيَاتِهِ خَلْقُ ٱلسَّمَاوَاتِ وَٱلْأَرْضِ وَٱخْتِلَافُ أَلْسِنَتِكُمْ وَأَلْوَانِكُمْ

     wamin ʔāyātihī ḵalqu s-samāwāti wal-ʔarḍi waḵtilāfu ʔalsinatikum waʔalwānikum

     And one of His signs is the creation of the heavens and the earth, and the diversity of your languages and colours.

3. (metonymically) speech
4. letter, missive
5. tongue of a balance

• لِسَانًا (lisānan, “orally, verbally”)
• لِسَانِيّ (lisāniyy, “oral, verbal”)
  • لِسَانِيَّات (lisāniyyāt, “linguistics”)

• لَسِنَ (lasina)
• لَسَّنَ (lassana)

• Iraqi Arabic: لسان (lsān)
• Gulf Arabic: لسان (lsān)
• Maltese: lsien
• Moroccan Arabic: لسان (lsān)
• → Azerbaijani: lisan
• → Malay: lisan
  • Indonesian: lisan
• → Ottoman Turkish: لسان (lisân)
  • Turkish: lisan
• → Hindustani:

  Hindi: लिसान (lisān)

  Urdu: لسان (lisân)

• Wehr, Hans (1979) “لسن”, in J. Milton Cowan, editor, A Dictionary of Modern Written Arabic, 4th edition, Ithaca, NY: Spoken Language Services, →ISBN
• Kazimirski, Albin de Biberstein (1860) “لسان”, in Dictionnaire arabe-français contenant toutes les racines de la langue arabe, leurs dérivés, tant dans l’idiome vulgaire que dans l’idiome littéral, ainsi que les dialectes d’Alger et de Maroc‎ (in French), Paris: Maisonneuve et C^ie

Borrowed from Arabic لِسَان (lisān).

لسان • (lisān) f (Standard Gujarati લિસાન) (Lisan ud-Dawat)

1. tongue
2. language

From Arabic لِسَان (lisān).

لسان • (lsān) f (plural لسانات (lsānāt))

1. (anatomy) tongue

From Arabic لِسَان (lisān).

• IPA^(key): /li.ˈsaːn/,

لسان • (lisān) m (plural لسن (lusun) or ألسنة (ʔalsina))

1. (anatomy) tongue

From Arabic لِسَان (lisān).

لسان (lsān) f (plural لسانات (lsānāt) or ألسنة (alsina))

1. (anatomy) tongue

From Arabic لِسَان (lisān).

• IPA^(key): /lsaːn/

لسان • (lsān) m (plural لسانات (lsānāt))

1. (anatomy) tongue

From Arabic لِسَان (lisān).

لسان • (lsān) m (plural لسانات (lsānāt))

1. (anatomy) tongue

From Arabic لِسَان (lisān).

لسان • (lisan) (definite accusative لسانی (lisanı), plural السنه (elsine) or لسانلر (lisanlar))

1. language
2. tongue

• لسانجه (lisanca)

• Turkish: lisan

Borrowed from Arabic لِسَان (lisān).

لسان • (lesân) (plural السنه (alsene) or لسان‌ها (lesân-hâ))

1. language

   Synonym: زبان (zabân)

2. (anatomy) tongue

   Synonym: زبان (zabân)

From Arabic لِسَان (lisān).

• IPA^(key): /lsaːn/,

• Audio (Ramallah):

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لسان • (lsān) m (plural لسانات (lsānāt))

1. tongue

Borrowed from Classical Persian لِسَان (lisān), from Arabic لِسَان (lisān).

• (Standard Urdu) IPA^(key): /lɪ.sɑːn/

لِسان • (lisān) f (Hindi spelling लिसान)

1. (anatomy) tongue

   Synonyms: جِیبھ (jībh), زُبان (zubān)

2. language

   Synonyms: زُبان (zubān), بولِی (bolī), بھاکھا (bhākhā), بھاشا (bhāśā)