lakna

accent

لَكْنَة

Word

Noun · pattern فَعْلَة

Root

ل ك ن

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وإنما قال لي الشيخ مظفر الدين: ماء الدخن ولسانه فيه اللكنة الأعجمية فظننت أنه يقول ماء الدهن.

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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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