لَجْلَجَ

Root: لج

Form: R. Q. 1

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لَجْلَجَ Verbal.Noun لَجْلَجَةٌ, He spoke with an indistinct utterance: he spoke with a heavy tongue, and was defective in speech, not uttering one part of what he said immediately after another; he hesitated in speech, by reason of a natural defect: or he reiterated, or stammered, or stuttered, (تَرَدَّدَ) in his speech; as also .
2 لَجْلَجَ المُضْغَةَ فِى فِمِهِ He moved the morsel of meat backwards and forwards in his mouth, to chew it.

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