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lakina

stammer

لَكِنَ

Word

Verb · Form I

Root

ل ك ن

Forms

Present
يَلْكَنُ

In the library

لكن الحرب لا يصلحها إلا الرجل المكيث " .

The Muqaddimah, page 27 →
Conjugation
Person PresentCommand
he هُوَ يَلْكَنُ—
she هِيَ تَلْكَنُ—
they two (m.) هُما يَلْكَنانِ—
they two (f.) هُما تَلْكَنانِ—
they (m.) هُمْ يَلْكَنُونَ—
they (f.) هُنَّ يَلْكَنَّ—
you (m.) أَنْتَ تَلْكَنُاِلْكَنْ
you (f.) أَنْتِ تَلْكَنِينَاِلْكَنِي
you two أَنْتُما تَلْكَنانِاِلْكَنَا
you (m. pl.) أَنْتُمْ تَلْكَنُونَاِلْكَنُوا
you (f. pl.) أَنْتُنَّ تَلْكَنَّاِلْكَنْنَ
I أَنا أَلْكَنُ—
we نَحْنُ نَلْكَنُ—

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Lane's Lexicon

Arabic–English, 1863–93 · 2 entries
  • لُكْنَةٌ An impotence, or impediment, or a difficulty, in speech or utterance
    An impotence, or impediment, or a difficulty, in speech or utterance; (Msb;) a barbarousness, or viciousness, and an impotence, or impediment, in speech: (S:) or the not speaking Arabic rightly, by reason of a barbarousness, or viciousness, in the tongue: (K:) or the interposing of [words of] a foreign language in one's speech. (Mbr, TA.) See تَهْتَهَةٌ; and عُجْمَةٌ, with which it is syn.
  • لٰكِنْ But
    , with the ن quiescent, has no government. ― -b2- It means But after a negative proposition: but not after an affirmative: see إِلَّا.

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