Classical Arabic - English Dictionary

لَفَظَهُ, (Ṣ, M, Mṣb, Ḳ,) and لَفَظَ بِهِ, (M, Ḳ,) aor. ـِ {يَلْفِظُ}, (Ṣ, M, Mṣb, Ḳ,) inf. n. لَفْظٌ; (T, Ṣ, M, Mṣb;) and لَفِظَهُ, and لَفِظَ بِهِ, aor. ـِ {يَلْفِظُ}; (Ibn-ʼAbbád, Ḳ.) but the former is that which is commonly known; (TA;) He ejected it; cast it forth; [disgorged it;] (T, Ṣ, M, Mṣb, Ḳ;) namely a thing that was in his mouth; (T;) his spittle, &c.; (Mṣb;) from (مِنْ) his mouth. (Ṣ, TA.) And لَفَظَ alone, [elliptically,] He ejected what had entered between his teeth, of food. (TA.) You say also, لَفَظَتِ الحَيَّةُ سَمَّهَا ‡ [The serpent ejected its poison.] (TA.) And لَفَظَ عَصْبَهُ, lit. He ejected his spittle that stuck and dried in his mouth; meaning ‡ he died; (T, TA;) as also لَفَظَ نَفْسَهُ, aor. ـِ {يَلْفِظُ}, inf. n. as above; (M, TA;) and لَفَظَ alone. (M, Ḳ.) And جَآءَ وَقَدْ لَفَظَ لِجَامَهُ, [as to the letter and the meaning like جَآءَ وَقَدْ دَلَقَ لِجَامَهُ,] ‡ He came harassed, or distressed, by thirst and fatigue. (Ibn-ʼAbbád, M, Z, Ḳ.) And لَفَظَتِ الرَّحِمُ مَآءَ الفَحْلِ ‡ The womb ejected the seminal fluid of the stallion. (TA.) And لَفَظَهُ البَحْرُ † The sea cast it forth upon the shore; (Mṣb, TA;) namely a fish; (TA;) or a beast. (Mṣb.) And لَفَظَ البَحْرُ بِمَا فِيهِ إِلَى الشُّطُوطِ † The sea cast forth what was within it to the shores. (M.) And قَآءَتِ الأَرْضُ أُكْلَهَا وَلَفَظَتْ خَبِيْئَهَا ‡ The earth disclosed her vegetables, and revealed her hidden things. (TA in this art. and in art. قيأ.) And لَفَظَتِ الأَرْضُ المَيِّتَ † The earth cast forth the dead; (T, Mṣb;) did not receive, or admit, the dead. (M.) And لَفَظَتِ البِلَادُ أَهْلَهَا ‡ [The countries cast forth their inhabitants]. (TA.)

[Hence,] لَفَظَ بِالكَلَامِ, (Ṣ, Ḳ,) and بِقَوْلٍ, (Mṣb,) and بِالشَّىْءِ, (M,) and لَفَظَ القَوْلَ, (TA,) aor. ـِ {يَلْفِظُ}, inf. n. لَفْظٌ, (M,) He uttered, spoke forth, or pronounced, (Ṣ, M, Mṣb, Ḳ,) the saying, (Ṣ, Ḳ,) and a saying, (Mṣb,) and the thing; (M;) as alsoتلفّظ↓ بِهِ. (Ṣ, Mṣb, Ḳ.) It is said in the Ḳur, [l. 17,] مَا يَلْفِظُ مِنْ قَوْلٍ ‡ [He doth not utter a saying]: where Kh. reads ما يَلْفَظُ: both forms of the verb being used in this sense [as is implied in the Ḳ.]. (TA.)

لَفْظٌ, originally an inf. n., (Ṣ, Mṣb,) is used as a subst., (Mṣb,) signifying ‡ An expression; i. e. a word; [more precisely termed لَفْظَةٌ↓;] and also a collection of words, a phrase, or sentence; (I’Aḳ, &c.;) [each considered as such, without regard to its meaning; a word itself; and a phrase itself;] the latter also called لَفْظٌ مُرَكَّبٌ, a compound expression, an expression composed of two or more words: (Expos. of the Ajroomeeyeh, by the sheykh Khálid;, &c.:) andمَلْفَظٌ↓ signifies the same (TA:) pl. of the former أَلْفَاظٌ; (Ṣ, Mṣb;) dim. أُلَيْفَاظٌ: (Ḥar., p. 593) and of the latter مَلَافِظ. (TA.) [Hence, لَفْظًا وَمَعْنًى ‡ With respect to the word, or words, or wording, and the meaning: and with respect to the actual order of the words; and the order of the sense. And لَفْظًا وَرُتْبَةً ‡ With respect to the actual order of the words, and the order of the proper relative places. And لَفْظًا وَتَقْدِيرًا ‡ Literally and virtually. And لَا وَاحِدَ لَهُ مِنْ لَفْظِهِ ‡ It has no singular formed of the same radical letter: i. e., it has no proper singular: said of a word such as قَوْمٌ and رَهْطٌ, &c.]

See also لُفَاظٌ.

لَفْظِىٌّ [Of, or relating to, a word, or collection of words, verbal:] opposed to مَعْنَوِىٌّ.

لَفَظَانٌ Loquacious; a great talker: but this is a vulgar word. (TA.)

لُفْاظٌ [app. a coll. gen. n., of which لُفَاظَةٌ↓, q. v., is the n. un., as seems to be indicated in the Ṣ, TA,] What is cast, or thrown, away; (M, TA;) as alsoلَفْظٌ↓: the latter on the authority of IB. (TA.)

لِفَاظٌ † Leguminous plants [put forth by the earth]. (Ṣgh, Ḳ.)

لَفِيظٌ andمَلْفُوظٌ↓ Ejected; cast forth. (M, Ḳ.)

‡ [Uttered, spoken forth, or pronounced.]

لُفَاظَةٌ What is ejected, or cast forth, from the mouth: (Ṣ, Ḳ:) such as particles of the toothstick, or stick with which the teeth are cleaned: (TA:) and what is cast, or thrown, away, of food: pl. لُفَاظَاتٌ: (Ḥar, p. 180:) see also لُفَاظٌ.

Also, ‡ A remain, remainder, or residue, of a thing, (Ḳ, TA,) little in quality. (TA.)

لَافِظٌ [act. part. n. of 1: fem. with ة {لَافِظَةٌ}]. You say, فُلاَنٌ لَافِظٌ ‡ Such a one is dying. (TA.)

اللَّافِظَةُ The she-goat, (T, Ṣ, M, Ḳ,) or ewe; (M, Ḳ;) because she is called to be milked, while ruminating, and thereupon ejects her cud, and comes joyfully to be milked: (T,* Ṣ, M,* Ḳ:*) or the bird that feeds her young one from her beak; because she puts forth what is in her inside and gives it for food: (Ṣ, Ḳ *:) or the domestic cock; (Ṣ, Ḳ;) because he takes the grain with his beak, and does not eat it, but throws it to the hen: (Ḳ:) or ‡ the mill; (T, Ṣ, M, Ḳ;) because it casts forth what it grinds, (T, TA,) of the flour: (TA:) or ‡ the sea; (Ṣ, M, Ḳ;) as also لَافِظَةُ, determinate [as a proper name]; (Ḳ;) because it casts forth (Ṣ, M) what is in it, (M,) [namely] ambergris and jewels: (Ṣ:) in this last sense, and as applied to the cock, (Ṣgh,) the ة is to give intensiveness to the signification. (Ṣ, Ṣgh.) It has one or another of these significations in the saying, اسْمَحُ مِنْ لَافِظَةٍ [More liberal, or bountiful, than a she-goat,, &c.,] (T, Ṣ, Ḳ,) and أَسْخَى مِنْ لَافِظَةٍ (M, TA) and أَجْوَدُ مِنْ لَافِظَةٍ [which mean the same]. (TA.) لَافِظَةٌ also signifies Any bird that feeds his female, (T,) or that feeds his young bird, (M, Ḳ,) from his beak. (T, M, Ḳ.) And اللَّافِظَةُ ‡ The earth; because it casts forth the dead. (TA.) And ‡ The present world; because it casts forth those who are in it to the world to come. (T, Ḳ, TA.)