لحن

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Arabic

Root
ل ح ن (l ḥ n)
4 terms

Etymology 1.1

Verb

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

  1. to mispronounce; to smatter (a language)
  2. (obsolete, rhetoric) to give a veiled hint of
Conjugation

Etymology 1.2

Verb

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
Conjugation

Etymology 1.3

Verb

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
Conjugation

Etymology 1.4

Noun

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
    • 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
  4. (obsolete, rhetoric) overtone, insinuation, hint, dog whistle
Declension
Descendants
  • Maltese: leħen
  • Medieval Hebrew, Israeli Hebrew: לַחַן (laḥan, tune, melody)
  • Malay: lahan
  • Somali: laxaan

Etymology 1.5

Noun

لَحَن (laḥanm

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

Etymology 1.6

Adjective

لَحِن (laḥin)

  1. intelligent, quick-witted, nimble
Declension

Persian

Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic لَحْن (laḥn).

Pronunciation

Readings
Classical reading? lahn
Dari reading? lahn
Iranian reading? lahn
Tajik reading? lahn

Noun

لحن (lahn)

  1. tune, melody
  2. tone of speech
    لحن مستترlahn-e mostatargrandiose tone
  3. accent, manner of speaking

Further reading

  • Hayyim, Sulayman (1934) “لحن”, in New Persian–English dictionary, Teheran: Librairie-imprimerie Béroukhim