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لُكْنَةٌ

Root: لكن

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لُكْنَةٌ An impotence, or impediment, or a difficulty, in speech or utterance; a barbarousness, or viciousness, and an impotence, or impediment, in speech: or the not speaking Arabic rightly, by reason of a barbarousness, or viciousness, in the tongue: or the interposing of [words of] a foreign language in one's speech. See تَهْتَهَةٌ; and عُجْمَةٌ, with which it is syn.
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