Lane's Arabic-English Lexicon

لَمَزَهُ

Root: لمز

Form: 1

Full Definition

لَمَزَهُI , Present.T ـِ and ـُ Verbal.Noun لَمْزٌ, He made a sign to him with the eye, or the like, as the head, and the lip, with low speech. This is the original signification.
2 Hence, He blamed, upbraided, or reproached, him; he found fault with him: or he did so in his face: or he met him with blaming, upbraiding, reproaching or finding fault: or he spoke evil of him, or spoke of him in a manner that he disliked, mentioning vices or faults as chargeable to him, either behind his back or before his face, though it might be with truth; syn. إِغْتَابَهُ. The two forms of the Present.T occur in readings of the words of the Kur., [ix. 58,] وَمِنْهُمْ مَنْ يَلْمِزُكَ فِى الصَّدَقَاتِ and يَلْمُزُكَ, And of them are those who blame thee with respect to the division of the alms: and Ibn-Ketheer reads .

def.2 لَمَزَهُ, aor ـِ Verbal.Noun لَمْزٌ, He pushed him, or impelled him, or repelled him: said by AM to be the primary signification: and he struck him, or beat him.


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