رَطَنَ
Root: رطن
Form: 1
Full Definition
رَطَنَI
, Present.T
ـُ Verbal.Noun رَطَانَةٌ and رِطَانَةٌ; and
, Verbal.Noun مُرَاطَنَةٌ; He spoke to him
بِالأَعْجمِيَّةِ [i. e. with a barbarous, or vitious, speech]; or, correctly, accord. to Aboo-Zekereeyà, بِالعَجَمِيَّةِ [i. e. in a language foreign to the Arabs]: or, [as sometimes used,] in a language not generally understood, conventionally formed between two, or several, persons: [or he gibbered,
2 You say also, رَطَنَ بِشَىْءٍ, meaning He alluded to a thing, not mentioning its name explicitly, or unequivocally.
[Their voices were like the barbarous, or vitious, or rather the foreign, speech, among themselves, of the Persians].أَصْوَاتُهُمْ الفُرْسِ
2 You say also, رَطَنَ بِشَىْءٍ, meaning He alluded to a thing, not mentioning its name explicitly, or unequivocally.
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