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لغو

3 لَاغَاهُ ذ He jested, or joked, with him; inf. n. مُلَاغَاةٌ. (A, TA.) You say, لَاغَاهُ فِى البَيْعِ. (A, TA, art. كيس.) لَغْوٌ ذ , applied to speech, &c., Nought; of no account; (M, K;) unprofitable. (M.) ― -b2- اليَمِينُ اللَّغْوُ: see KT, voce يَمِينٌ. اللُّغَةُ ذ The genuine language of the Arabs; which is the classical language. لُغَوِىٌّ ذ Of, or relating to, the genuine language of the Arabs. مَعْنًى لُغَوِىٌّ A genuine lexicological meaning. لُغَيَّةٌ ذ A word of weak authority. (TA, voce جِرَاب, et passim.) لَاغٍ ذ : see مَائِرٌ.
An Arabic-English Lexicon. London. Williams and Norgate. 1863.

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