# لفظ
## Arabic
### Etymology 1

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

#### Verb

لَفَظَ • (lafaẓa) I (non-past يَلْفِظُ (yalfiẓu), verbal noun لَفْظ (lafẓ))
* (transitive, with accusative or بِـ (bi-)) to emit
    لَفَظَ ٱلنَّفَسَ ٱلْأَخِيرَ / آخِرَ أَنْفَاسِهِlafaẓa n-nafasa l-ʔaḵīra / ʔāḵira ʔanfāsihito emit one's last breath
* (transitive, with accusative or بِـ (bi-)) to spit out
* (transitive, with accusative or بِـ (bi-)) to eject
* (transitive, with accusative and مِنْ (min)) to throw out
* to speak, enunciate, articulate
* (transitive, with accusative or بِـ (bi-)) to pronounce, utter, express, say

##### Derived terms

* 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”)

### Etymology 2

Verbal noun from لَفَظَ (lafaẓa).

#### Noun

لَفْظ • (lafẓ) m (plural أَلْفَاظ (ʔalfāẓ))
* expression, term, word
** Ibn Malik
    كَلَامُنَا لَفْظٌ مُفِيدٌ كَٱسْتَقِمْ / وَٱسْمٌ وَفِعْلٌ ثُمَّ حَرْفٌ ٱلْكَلِمkalāmunā lafẓun mufīdun kastaqim / wasmun wafiʕlun ṯumma ḥarfun l-kalim(please add an English translation of this quotation)
* wording, formulation
* articulation, enunciation, pronunciation

##### Derived terms

* 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”)

##### Descendants

* → 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

### References

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

## Persian
### Alternative forms

* لبظ (labz) (dialectal, Sistan)

### Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic لَفْظ (lafẓ).

### Pronunciation

* (Classical Persian) IPA: [lafz]
* (Dari, formal) IPA: [läfz]
* (Dari, formal) IPA: [läfz]
** (Kabuli) IPA: [läfz]
** (Hazaragi) IPA: [läfz]
* (Iran, formal) IPA: [læfz]
* (Tajik, formal) IPA: [läfz]

### Noun

لفظ • (lafz) (plural الفاظ)
* pronunciation, utterance
* word, vocable

### Noun

لفظ • (lafz) (verbal noun)
* pronouncing, articulating
* ejecting, throwing out (from the mouth)

### Further reading

* 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

## Punjabi
### Etymology

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

### Pronunciation

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

### Noun

لَفْظ • (lafz̤) m (Gurmukhi spelling ਲਫ਼ਜ਼)
* word
    Synonym: اکھر (akkhar)

## Saraiki
### Etymology

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

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ləvz/

### Noun

لَفْظ (lafz̤) m
* word

## South Levantine Arabic
### Etymology 1

Learned borrowing from Arabic لَفَظَ (lafaẓa).

#### Pronunciation

* IPA: /la.fazˤ/, [ˈlˤɑ.fɑzˤ]
* Audio (al-Lidd):(file)

#### Verb

لفظ • (lafaẓ) I (present بلفظ (bolfoẓ))
* to pronounce

##### Conjugation
### Etymology 2

Learned borrowing from Arabic لَفْظ (lafẓ).

#### Pronunciation

* IPA: /lafzˤ/, [lɑfsˤ]
* Audio (Ramallah):(file)

#### Noun

لفظ • (lafẓ) m
* pronunciation, accent

##### Derived terms

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

## Urdu
### Etymology

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

### Pronunciation

* (Standard Urdu) IPA: /ləfz/
* Rhymes: -əfz
* Audio (India):(file)
* (colloquial) IPA: [ləfz̥], [ləvz]

### Noun

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

#### Declension

Colloquial:
Formal:

### References

* 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, 3rd edition, London: J.L. Cox and Son, →OCLC

## Ushojo
### Etymology

From Urdu لفظ (lafz).

### Noun

لفظ (lafz)
* word, term