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Entries on لكن in 12 Arabic dictionaries by the authors Arabic-English Lexicon by Edward William Lane, Habib Anthony Salmone, An Advanced Learner's Arabic-English Dictionary, Al-Muṭarrizī, al-Mughrib fī Tartīb al-Muʿrib, and 9 more

لكن



لُكْنَةٌ An impotence, or impediment, or a difficulty, in speech or utterance; (Msb;) a barbarousness, or viciousness, and an impotence, or impediment, in speech: (S:) or the not speaking Arabic rightly, by reason of a barbarousness, or viciousness, in the tongue: (K:) or the interposing of [words of] a foreign language in one's speech. (Mbr, TA.) See تَهْتَهَةٌ; and عُجْمَةٌ, with which it is syn. لٰكِنْ, with the ن quiescent, has no government. b2: It means But after a negative proposition: but not after an affirmative: see إِلَّا.
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