Meaning: their tongues · Also translated as: tongue, in your tongue, my tongue, with the language
Forms in the Quran
لِسَانِ×5
أَلْسِنَتَهُم×3
بِأَلْسِنَتِهِمْ×2
بِلِسَانِ×2
أَلْسِنَتُكُمُ×2
بِلِسَانِكَ×2
لِّسَانِى×2
لِسَانًا×2
Its root in the classical dictionaries
اللسان: الجارحة وقوتها، وقوله: واحلل عقدة من لساني [طه/ 27] يعني به من قوة لسانه، فإن العقدة لم تكن في الجارحة، وإنما كانت في قوته التي هي النطق به، ويقال: لكل قوم لسان ولسن بكسر اللام، أي: لغة. قال تعالى: فإنما يسرناه بلسانك [الدخان/ 58] ، وقال: بلسان عربي مبين [الشعراء/ 195] ، واختلاف ألسنتكم وألوانكم
اللام والسين والنون أصل صحيح واحد، يدل على طول لطيف غير بائن، في عضو أو غيره. من ذلك اللسان، معروف، وهو مذكر والجمع ألسن، فإذا كثر فهي الألسنة. ويقال لسنته، إذا أخذته بلسانك. قال طرفة:
The desert Arabs who
Lagged behind will
Say to thee:
"We were engaged in
(Looking after) our flocks
And herds, and our families:
Do thou then ask
Forgiveness for us.
They say with their tongues
What is not in their hearts.
Say: "Who then has
Any power at all
(To intervene) on your behalf
With God, if His Will
Is to give you some loss
Or to give you some profit?
But God is well acquainted
With all that ye do.
If they were to get
The better of you,
They would behave to you
As enemies, and stretch forth
Their hands and their tongues
Against you for evil;
And they desire that ye
Should reject the Truth.