Quranic root
لفظ
l · f · ẓ
The root centers on throwing or casting something out, especially from the mouth.
The physical act of expulsion extends to uttering words and to things, places, or agents characterized by casting something forth.
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Forms in the Quran
The forms this root actually takes in the Quran. Select one to jump to its senses and examples.
لَفَظَ
lafaẓa
- Part of speech
- Verb · Form I
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- Quran occurrences
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Selected examples are shown with the sense they illustrate — chosen to teach that sense, not the complete list of this form’s Quran occurrences.
To utter, speak forth, or pronounce words or a saying.
Used with speech or words, including constructions with بِالكلام, بِقول, or قول. The Quranic occurrence uses the construction ما يلفظ من قول, “he does not utter a saying.”
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Selected Quran examples
Quran 50:18word 2
“he utters”
Occurrences in the Quran
Every place this root appears, in Quran order. The first few are shown here.
- 50:18يَلْفِظُhe utters
Broader Classical Arabic meanings
Recorded for this root in the Classical lexicons beyond its Quran usage. These are secondary to the Quran senses above.
Show 13 Classical meanings
لَفَظَ
To eject, cast forth, or disgorge something from the mouth.
Used of food, spittle, or similar matter in the mouth; also of a serpent ejecting its poison and of the womb discharging seminal fluid. The verb may occur with لَفَظَهُ, لَفَظَ بِهِ, or elliptically without an expressed object.
- Lane · entry 9750
لَفَظَ
To cast forth or discharge what is contained in something, or to expel it from a place.
Used of the sea casting fish, beasts, or its contents onto the shore; of the earth bringing forth vegetation, revealing hidden things, or casting out the dead; and of lands casting forth their inhabitants.
- Lane · entry 9750
لَفَظَ
To die.
An idiomatic figurative use in expressions such as لَفَظَ عَصَبَهُ and لَفَظَ نَفْسَهُ.
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لَفَظَ
To arrive harassed or distressed by thirst and fatigue.
A figurative idiomatic use in جَاءَ وَقَدْ لَفَظَ لِجَامَهُ.
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لَفْظٌ
An expression: a word, phrase, or sentence considered as wording, without regard to its meaning.
May denote a single word or a compound expression made of two or more words; it can also refer generally to wording or the actual order of words.
- Lane · entry 9752
لَفْظِيٌّ
Verbal; relating to a word or expression, or to wording.
Used in opposition to مَعْنَوِيٌّ, “semantic” or “relating to meaning.”
- Lane · entry 9754
لَفَظَانٌ
Loquacious; a great talker.
Reported as a vulgar usage.
- Lane · entry 9755
لُفْاظٌ
Something cast or thrown away.
A collective or descriptive noun for discarded matter.
- Lane · entry 9756
لِفَاظٌ
Leguminous plants put forth by the earth.
A figurative application based on the plants’ being brought forth by the earth.
- Lane · entry 9757
لَفِيظٌ
Ejected or cast forth; figuratively, uttered, spoken forth, or pronounced.
The physical and speech-related uses are reported as applications of the corresponding verb.
- Lane · entry 9758
لُفَاظَةٌ
What is ejected or cast forth from the mouth, such as particles from a toothstick or discarded food; also a small remainder or residue.
The residue sense is figurative and denotes little remaining of a thing.
- Lane · entry 9759
لَافِظٌ
A person who is dying.
A figurative use of the active participle in the expression فُلَانٌ لَافِظٌ.
- Lane · entry 9760
لَافِظَةٌ
A female or thing characterized by casting something forth: specifically, a she-goat or ewe that ejects its cud; a bird that feeds its mate or young from its beak; a domestic cock that gives grain to a hen; and, figuratively, a mill, the sea, the earth, or the present world by what each casts forth.
The applications refer respectively to ejecting cud, offering food, casting out flour, ambergris or jewels, the dead, or inhabitants into the next world. In some applications the feminine ending intensifies the meaning.
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Cautions
Points that affect how this root should be read.
The public verb headword is normalized to the perfect citation form لَفَظَ, while the Quran occurrence is the active imperfect يَلْفِظُ.
Lane’s printed Quran reference '[l. 17]' is not converted into a modern verse coordinate; the example location 50:18:2 is used because it is independently supplied by QAC.