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لَخْلَخَانِيَّةٌ

Root: لخ

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لَخْلَخَانِيَّةٌ A barbarousness, or vitiousness, in speech, or utterance; a want of chasteness therein; an - impotence, or impediment, or a difficulty, therein. It is a quality of the dial. of the Arabs of the desert of Esh-Shahr and 'Omán; as when they say, for مَا شَآءَ ٱللّٰهُ, مَشَآءَ ٱللّٰهُ: or is derived from لَخْلَخَانُ, the name of a tribe: or, as some say, of a place. نَظَرَ فُلَانٌ نَظَرَ اللَّخَلْخَانِيَّةِ Such a one looked with the look of barbarians, or foreigners; or, of those who are barbarous in speech.
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