لَفْظٌ utterance in Arabic
لَفْظٌ is how you say “utterance” in Arabic.
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Example sentence
فهي ليستْ لفظًا مُنفردًا، بل جملةٌ مُقدَّرة معناها أبدأ عملي باسمِ الله، فأربطُ الفعلَ بالرّب
it is not an isolated utterance, but an implicit sentence meaning: I begin my action in the name of Allah, thus linking the act to the Lord.
لَفْظًا an utterance
'an utterance', accusative because 'laysa' governs its predicate so — 'is not a mere wording'. The case ending flags it as the thing being denied.
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وأمثال ذَلِك مِمَّا اسْتعْمل فِيهِ لفظ الْكَلِمَة من الْكتاب وَالسّنة بل وَسَائِر كَلَام الْعَرَب فَإِنَّمَا يُرَاد بِهِ الْجُمْلَة التَّامَّة
And similar uses of the term 'word' in the Book and the Sunnah, as well as in the rest of Arabic speech, refer to a complete sentence.
لَفْظُ term
'the wording, term', the subject of the passive 'was used', nominative, head of an 'of' pairing with 'the word'.
كَمَا كَانُوا يستعملون الْحَرْف فِي الِاسْم فَيَقُولُونَ هَذَا حرف غَرِيب أَي لفظ الِاسْم غَرِيب
Just as they used the term 'letter' in place of 'word', saying: 'This is a strange letter,' meaning the word is unusual.
لَفْظُ the word
'the wording of', nominative, head of an 'of' pairing with 'the noun' — 'the wording OF the word'.
واستعمال الألفاظ المشتركة والمجازية في المقدمات،
And using ambiguous and metaphorical words in the premises.
الأَلْفَاظِ words
Genitive owner of 'use' — 'the words, expressions'; broken plural of 'lafz'.
وإن كان مما لا يدرك بالاجتهاد كالأمور التي طريقها النقل وتفسير الألفاظ اللغوية فلا يجوز الكلام فيه إلا بنقل صحيح من جهة المعتمدين من أهله
And if it is not reachable through juristic effort, like matters of transmission and linguistic interpretation, then speaking on it is not allowed except with authentic transmission from trusted authorities.
الْأَلْفَاظِ of expressions
A broken plural, 'the wordings,' owned in 'the explaining of the wordings.' Vocabulary whose sense only language-experts can give — hence beyond reasoning.