لفظ

1 لَفَظَهُ  , (S, M, Msb, K,) and لَفَظَ بِهِ, (M, K,) aor. لَفِظَ , (S, M, Msb, K,) inf. n. لَفْظٌ; (T, S, M, Msb;) and لَفِظَهُ, and لَفِظَ بِهِ, aor. لَفِظَ ; (Ibn- Abbád, K.) but the former is that which is commonly known; (TA;) He ejected it; cast it forth; [disgorged it;] (T, S, M, Msb, K;) namely a thing that was in his mouth; (T;) his spittle, &c.; (Msb;) from (مِنْ) his mouth. (S, TA.) And لَفَظَ alone, [elliptically,] He ejected what had entered between his teeth, of food. (TA.) You say also, لَفَظَتِ الحَيَّةُ سَمَّهَا (tropical:) [The serpent ejected its poison.] (TA.) And لَفَظَ عَصْبَهُ, lit. He ejected his spittle that stuck and dried in his mouth; meaning (tropical:) he died; (T, TA;) as also لَفَظَ نَفْسَهُ, aor. لَفِظَ , inf. n. as above; (M, TA;) and لَفَظَ alone. (M, K.) And جَآءَ وَقَدْ لَفَظَ لِجَامَهُ, [as to the letter and the meaning like جَآءَ وَقَدْ دَلَقَ لِجَامَهُ,] (tropical:) He came harassed, or distressed, by thirst and fatigue. (Ibn-'Abbád, M, Z, K.) And لَفَظَتِ الرَّحِمُ مَآءَ الفَحْلِ (tropical:) The womb ejected the seminal fluid of the stallion. (TA.) And لَفَظَهُ البَحْرُ (assumed tropical:) The sea cast it forth upon the shore; (Msb, TA;) namely a fish; (TA;) or a beast. (Msb.) And لَفَظَ البَحْرُ بِمَا فِيهِ إِِلَى الشُّطُوطِ (assumed tropical:) The sea cast forth what was within it to the shores. (M.) And قَآءَتِ الأَرْضُ أُكْلَهَا وَلَفَظَتْ خَبِيْئَهَا (tropical:) The earth disclosed her vegetables, and revealed her hidden things. (TA in this art. and in art. قيأ.) And لَفَظَتِ الأَرْضُ المَيِّتَ (assumed tropical:) The earth cast forth the dead; (T, Msb;) did not receive, or admit, the dead. (M.) And لَفَظَتِ البِلَادُ أَهْلَهَا (tropical:) [The countries cast forth their inhabitants]. (TA.) ― -b2- [Hence,] لَفَظَ بِالكَلَامِ, (S, K,) and بِقَوْلٍ, (Msb,) and بِالشَّىْءِ, (M,) and لَفَظَ القَوْلَ, (TA,) aor. لَفِظَ , inf. n. لَفْظٌ, (M,) He uttered, spoke forth, or pronounced, (S, M, Msb, K,) the saying, (S, K,) and a saying, (Msb,) and the thing; (M;) as also بِهِ ↓ تلفّظ . (S, Msb, K.) It is said in the Kur, [l. 17,] مَا يَلْفِظُ مِنْ قَوْلٍ (tropical:) [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 K.]. (TA.) 5 تَلَفَّظَ see 1, last signification. لَفْظٌ  , originally an inf. n., (S, Msb,) is used as a subst., (Msb,) signifying (tropical:) An expression; i. e. a word; [more precisely termed ↓ لَفْظَةٌ ;] and also a collection of words, a phrase, or sentence; (I'Ak &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.:) and ↓ مَلْفَظٌ signifies the same (TA:) pl. of the former أَلْفَاظٌ; (S, Msb;) dim. أُلَيْفَاظٌ: (Har., p. 593) and of the latter مَلَافِظ. (TA.) [Hence, لَفْظًا وَمَعْنًى (tropical:) 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 (tropical:) With respect to the actual order of the words, and the order of the proper relative places. And لَفْظًا وَتَقْدِيرًا (tropical:) Literally and virtually. And لَا وَاحِدَ لَهُ مِنْ لَفْظِهِ (tropical:) 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.] ― -b2- See also لُفَاظٌ. لَفْظَةٌ  : see لَفْظٌ. 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 S, TA,] What is cast, or thrown, away; (M, TA;) as also ↓ لَفْظٌ : the latter on the authority of IB. (TA.) لِفَاظٌ ذ (assumed tropical:) Leguminous plants [put forth by the earth]. (Sgh, K.) لَفِيظٌ  and ↓ مَلْفُوظٌ Ejected; cast forth. (M, K.) ― -b2- (tropical:) [Uttered, spoken forth, or pronounced.] لُفَاظَةٌ  What is ejected, or cast forth, from the mouth: (S, K:) 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: (Har, p. ??.:) see also لُفَاظٌ. ― -b2- Also, (tropical:) A remain, remainder, or residue, of a thing, (K, TA,) little in quality. (TA.) لَافِظٌ  [act. part. n. of 1: fem. with ة]. You say, فُلاَنٌ لَافِظٌ (tropical:) Such a one is dying. (TA.) ― -b2- اللَّافِظَةٌ The she-goat, (T, S, M, K,) or ewe; (M, K;) because she is called to be milked, while ruminating, and thereupon ejects her cud, and comes joyfully to be milked: (T, * S, M, * K: *) 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: (S, K *:) or the domestic cock; (S, K;) because he takes the grain with his beak, and does not eat it, but throws it to the hen: (K:) or (tropical:) the mill; (T, S, M, K;) because it casts forth what it grinds, (T, TA,) of the flour: (TA:) or (tropical:) the sea; (S, M, K;) as also لَافِظَةُ, determinate [as a proper name]; (K;) because it casts forth (S, M) what is in it, (M,) [namely] ambergris and jewels: (S:) in this last sense, and as applied to the cock, (Sgh,) the ة is to give intensiveness to the signification. (S, Sgh.) It has one or another of these significations in the saying, اسْمَحُ مِنْ لَافِظَةٍ [More liberal, or bountiful, than a she-goat, &c.,] (T, S, K,) 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, K,) from his beak. (T, M, K.) And اللَّافِظَةُ (tropical:) The earth; because it casts forth the dead. (TA.) And (tropical:) The present world; because it casts forth those who are in it to the world to come. (T, K, TA.) مَلْفَظٌ  : see لَفْظٌ. مَلْفُوظٌ  : see لَفِيظٌ. Credit: Lane Lexicon