alkan
stammerer, stutterer
أَلْكَن
Word
Noun · pattern أَفْعَلRoot
ل ك نIn the library
وتماثلها أنهار خمسة أيضاً: نهر السند ويسمى ينج اب ونهر الهند ويسمى الكنك، وإليه تحج الهنود.
The Travels, page 16 →From the same root
- لٰكِنhowever
- لٰكِنَّhowever
- لَكِنَstammer
- لَكَنbasins
- لَكْنَةaccent
- لُكْنَةincorrect pronunciation
- لَكانَةstammer, speech defect
- لُكُونَةstammer, speech defect
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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