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لَهْجَةٌ

Root: لهج

Full Definition

لَهْجَةٌ and لَهَجَةٌ The tongue: or the tip, or extremity, of the tongue.
2 The tongue, or dialect, or language, which a person speaks by nature and custom and education.
3 فُلَانٌ فَصِيحُ اللَّهْجَةِ, and , Such a one is of chaste tongue: or, chaste in the dialect, or language, which he speaks by nature and custom and education.
4 Also, both words, but the former is the more approved, The sound of speech.
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