لفظ

Verb form I from the root ل ف ظ (l f ẓ).

لَفَظَ • (lafaẓa) I (non-past يَلْفِظُ (yalfiẓu), verbal noun لَفْظ (lafẓ))

1. (transitive, with accusative or بِـ (bi-)) to emit

   لَفَظَ ٱلنَّفَسَ ٱلْأَخِيرَ / آخِرَ أَنْفَاسِهِ

   lafaẓa n-nafasa l-ʔaḵīra / ʔāḵira ʔanfāsihi

   to emit one's last breath

2. (transitive, with accusative or بِـ (bi-)) to spit out
3. (transitive, with accusative or بِـ (bi-)) to eject
4. (transitive, with accusative and مِنْ (min)) to throw out
5. to speak, enunciate, articulate
6. (transitive, with accusative or بِـ (bi-)) to pronounce, utter, express, say

• لَفَظَ أَنْفَاسَهُ الْأَخِيرَة (lafaẓa ʔanfāsahu l-ʔaḵīra, “to breathe one's last breath, die”)
• لَفَظَ أَنْفَاسَهُ (lafaẓa ʔanfāsahu, “to be in the throes of death”, literally “to release one's breaths”)
• لَفَظَ رُوحَهُ (lafaẓa rūḥahu, “to give up the ghost”, literally “to release one's spirit”)
• لَفَظَ لَفْظَ ٱلنَّوَاةِ (lafaẓa lafẓa n-nawāti, “to brush aside, reject”, literally “to spit the spitting of a date pit”)

Verbal noun from لَفَظَ (lafaẓa).

لَفْظ • (lafẓ) m (plural أَلْفَاظ (ʔalfāẓ))

1. expression, term, word
   • Ibn Malik

     كَلَامُنَا لَفْظٌ مُفِيدٌ كَٱسْتَقِمْ / وَٱسْمٌ وَفِعْلٌ ثُمَّ حَرْفٌ ٱلْكَلِم

     kalāmunā lafẓun mufīdun kastaqim / wasmun wafiʕlun ṯumma ḥarfun l-kalim

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

2. wording, formulation
3. articulation, enunciation, pronunciation

• لَفْظًا (lafẓan, “verbatim, literally”)
• لَفْظًا وَمَعْنًى (lafẓan wa-maʕnan, “in letter and spirit”)
• أَخْطَأَ ٱللَّفْظَ (ʔaḵṭaʔa l-lafẓa, “to mispronounce”)
• لَفْظِيّ (lafẓiyy, “verbal, literal, pronounced, oral”)
• لَفْظَة (lafẓa, “a word, saying”)

• → Azerbaijani: ləfz
• → Kazakh: лебіз (lebız)
• → Hausa: lafazi
• → Indonesian: lafaz, lafal
• → Persian: لفظ
  • → Bengali: লফজ (lophoj)
  • → Dhivehi: ލަފުޒު (lafuzu)
  • → Gujarati: લફ્જ (laphj)
  • → Punjabi: ਲਫ਼ਜ਼ (lafaz)
  • → Hindi: लफ़्ज़ (lafz)
  • → Urdu: لفظ
    • → Ushojo: لفظ
• → Ottoman Turkish: لفظ
  • Turkish: lafız
• → Swahili: lafudhi
• → Uzbek: lafz

• Wehr, Hans (1979) “لفظ”, in J. Milton Cowan, editor, A Dictionary of Modern Written Arabic, 4th edition, Ithaca, NY: Spoken Language Services, →ISBN

• لبظ (labz) (dialectal, Sistan)

Borrowed from Arabic لَفْظ (lafẓ).

لفظ • (lafz) (plural الفاظ)

1. pronunciation, utterance
2. word, vocable

لفظ • (lafz) (verbal noun)

1. pronouncing, articulating
2. ejecting, throwing out (from the mouth)

• Steingass, Francis Joseph (1892) “لفظ”, in A Comprehensive Persian–English dictionary, London: Routledge & K. Paul
• Dehkhoda, Ali-Akbar (1931–) “لفظ”, in Dehkhoda Dictionary Institute, editors, Dehkhoda Dictionary (in Persian), Tehran: University of Tehran Press

Borrowed from Classical Persian لَفْظ (lafz), from Arabic لَفْظ (lafẓ).

• (formal) IPA^(key): /ˈləf.zə̆/
• (colloquial) IPA^(key): /ˈlə.fə.zə̆/, /ˈlə.f̬ə.zə̆/
• (rustic) IPA^(key): /ˈlə.pʰə.d͡ʒə̆/

لَفْظ • (lafz̤) m (Gurmukhi spelling ਲਫ਼ਜ਼)

1. word

   Synonym: اکھر (akkhar)

Borrowed from Classical Persian لَفْظ (lafz), from Arabic لَفْظ (lafẓ).

• IPA^(key): /ləvz/

لَفْظ (lafz̤) m

1. word

Learned borrowing from Arabic لَفَظَ (lafaẓa).

• IPA^(key): /la.fazˤ/, [ˈlˤɑ.fɑzˤ]

• Audio (al-Lidd):

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لفظ • (lafaẓ) I (present بلفظ (bolfoẓ))

1. to pronounce

Learned borrowing from Arabic لَفْظ (lafẓ).

• IPA^(key): /lafzˤ/, [lɑfsˤ]

• Audio (Ramallah):

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لفظ • (lafẓ) m

1. pronunciation, accent

• لفظ سيئ (lafẓ sayyeʔ, “bad word, cussword”)

Borrowed from Classical Persian لَفْظ (lafz), from Arabic لَفْظ (lafẓ).

• (Standard Urdu) IPA^(key): /ləfz/
• Rhymes: -əfz

• Audio (India):

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• (colloquial) IPA^(key): [ləfz̥], [ləvz]

لَفْظ • (lafz) m (formal plural الفاظ, Hindi spelling लफ़्ज़)

1. word, term

   میں دو لفظوں میں یہ بیاں نہیں کر سکتا۔

   ma͠i dō lafzō̃ mē̃ ye bayā̃ nahī̃ kar saktā.

   I cannot express this in only two words.

Colloquial:

Formal:

• Platts, John T. (1884) “لفظ”, in A dictionary of Urdu, classical Hindi, and English, London: W. H. Allen & Co.
• S. W. Fallon (1879) “لفظ”, in A New Hindustani-English Dictionary, Banaras, London: Trubner and Co.
• “لفظ”, in اُردُو لُغَت (urdū luġat) (in Urdu), Ministry of Education: Government of Pakistan, 2017.
• Qureshi, Bashir Ahmad (1971) “لفظ”, in Kitabistan's 20th Century Standard Dictionary‎, Lahore: Kitabistan Pub. Co.
• “لفظ”, in ریخْتَہ لُغَت (rexta luġat) - Rekhta Dictionary [Urdu dictionary with meanings in Hindi & English], Noida, India: Rekhta Foundation, 2025.
• John Shakespear (1834) “لفظ”, in A dictionary, Hindustani and English: with a copious index, fitting the work to serve, also, as a dictionary of English and Hindustani, 3^rd edition, London: J.L. Cox and Son, →OCLC

From Urdu لفظ (lafz).

لفظ (lafz)

1. word, term