لغو

Arabic

Root
ل غ و (l ḡ w)
8 terms

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /laɣw/

Noun

لَغْو • (laḡw) m

1. verbal noun of لَغَا (laḡā) (form I)
2. blather, blither, prattle, babbling, rambling, prating
   1. redundancy, superfluity; wordiness, verbosity
   2. nonsense, gibberishness; absurdity
3. uttering oaths hastily, carelessly, or inattentively, ejaculation, swearing

Declension

Declension of noun لَغْو (laḡw)

singular	basic singular triptote
	indefinite	definite	construct
informal	لَغْو laḡw	اللَّغْو al-laḡw	لَغْو laḡw
nominative	لَغْوٌ laḡwun	اللَّغْوُ al-laḡwu	لَغْوُ laḡwu
accusative	لَغْوًا laḡwan	اللَّغْوَ al-laḡwa	لَغْوَ laḡwa
genitive	لَغْوٍ laḡwin	اللَّغْوِ al-laḡwi	لَغْوِ laḡwi

Descendants

• → Azerbaijani: ləğv
• → Kazakh: лағу (lağuw)
• → Ottoman Turkish: لغو (lağv, lağıv)
  • Turkish: lağıv
• → Persian: لغو (laġv)
  • → Urdu: لغو (lagv)

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic لَغْو (laḡw, “prattle; nonsense, gibberish”).

Noun

لغو • (lağv or lağıv) (definite accusative لغوی (lağvı), plural لغولر (lağıvlar))

1. annulment, cancellation, abolition, abrogation, nullification, any act or instance of annulling

   Synonym: ابطال (ibtâl)

Derived terms

• لغو ایتمك (lağv etmek, “to annul, cancel”)
• لغو صریح (lağv-ı sarih, “expressed abrogation”)
• لغو ضمنی (lağv-ı zimnî, “tacit abrogation”)

Descendants

• Turkish: lağıv

Further reading

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• Barbier de Meynard, Charles (1886), “لغو”, in Dictionnaire turc-français, volume II, Paris: E. Leroux, page 702
• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007), “lağıv”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 2927
• Devellioğlu, Ferit (1962), “lâğv”, in Osmanlıca-Türkçe Ansiklopedik Lûgat‎ [Ottoman–Turkish Encyclopedic Dictionary]‎^[1] (in Turkish), Istanbul: Türk Dil Kurumu, page 644
• Kélékian, Diran (1911), “لغو”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[2] (in French), Constantinople: Mihran, page 1079
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687), “Inanis”, in Complementum thesauri linguarum orientalium, seu onomasticum latino-turcico-arabico-persicum, simul idem index verborum lexici turcico-arabico-persici, quod latinâ, germanicâ, aliarumque linguarum adjectâ nomenclatione nuper in lucem editum‎^[3], Vienna, column 763
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680), “لغو”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎^[4], Vienna, column 4184
• Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–), “lağıv”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
• Redhouse, James W. (1890), “لغو”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[5], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1635

Persian

Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic لَغْو (laḡw).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Persian) IPA^(key): /la.ˈɣuː/

 

• (Dari, formal) IPA^(key): [lä.ɣuː], [läɣ.wä]

• (Dari, formal) IPA^(key): [lä.ɣuː], [läɣ.wä]
  • (Kabuli) IPA^(key): [lä.ɣuː]
  • (Hazaragi) IPA^(key): [lä.ɣu]

• (Iran, formal) IPA^(key): [læɢv]

• (Tajik, formal) IPA^(key): [läʁw]

• Rhymes: -uː

Readings
Classical reading?	laġū
Dari reading?	laġū, laġwa
Iranian reading?	laġv
Tajik reading?	laġv

Adjective

Dari	لغو
Iranian Persian
Tajik	лағв

لغو • (laġv)

1. nonsensical
2. absurd
3. improper

Noun

لغو • (laġv)

1. nonsense
2. gibberish
3. cancellation
4. abolition

Urdu

Etymology

Borrowed from Classical Persian لغو (laġw), from Arabic لَغْو (laḡw). Related to لغوی (luğavī, “belonging to a language”).

Pronunciation

• (Standard Urdu) IPA^(key): /ləɣʋ/

Adjective

لغو • (lağv)

1. nonsensical
2. absurd
3. improper

Noun

لغو • (lağv) m

1. nonsense
2. gibberish