لَحْنٌ

The meaning of speech; its intended sense or import: (S, K, TA:) its intent: (TA:) [it is direct: and also indirect:] an indication thereof whereby the person addressed is made to understand one's intent; so says Az (Msb: [and the like is said in the TA on the authority of AHeyth:]) an oblique, or ambiguous, mode of speech: (Msb:) an inclining of speech to obliqueness, or ambiguity, and equivocal allusion. (Bd, in xlvii. 32.)

A barbarism, an incorrect word.

عَرَفْتُهُ فِى لَحْنِ كَلَامِهِ and فى نَحْوِ كلامه. and فى مِعْرَاضِ كلامه signify the same. (Msb in article عرض.) See the last of these voce عَرُوضٌ.

لَحْنٌ A modulated sound; explained as being مِنَ الأَصْوَاتِ المَصُوغَةِ المَوْضُوعَةِ: plural أَلْحَانٌ and لُحُونٌ. (K.) You say, أَلْحَانُ الأَغَانِى [The modulated sounds of songs]. (Mgh.)