لغز

From the root ل غ ز‎ (l-ḡ-z).

لُغْز or لَغَز or لُغَز or لُغُز • (luḡz or laḡaz or luḡaz or luḡuz) m (plural أَلْغَاز‎ (ʔalḡāz))

1. riddle, mystery

Lua error: attempt to perform arithmetic on local 'h' (a nil value)

لَغَزَ • (laḡaza) I, non-past يَلْغُزُ‎‎ (yalḡuzu)

1. to distort, to pervert, to change a shape of a thing

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لَغَّزَ • (laḡḡaza) II, non-past يُلَغِّزُ‎‎ (yulaḡḡizu)

1. to obscure the meaning of a speech, to speak in riddles

   Synonym: أَلْغَزَ‎ (ʔalḡaza)

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• “لغز” in Almaany
• Steingass, Francis Joseph (1884), “لغز”, in The Student's Arabic–English Dictionary‎, London: W.H. Allen