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mulāṭafa

courtesy, friendliness, kindness

مُلاطَفَة

Word

Noun · pattern مُفاعَلَة

Root

ل ط ف

In the library

فلما سمع الغراب كلام السلحفاة للجرذ وردها عليه وملاطفتها إياه فرح بذلك وقال: لقد سررتني وأنعمت عليّ، وأنت جديرة أن تسرّي نفسك بمثل ما سررتني به.

Kalila wa Dimna, page 53 →

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Lane's Lexicon

Arabic–English, 1863–93 · 11 entries
  • لَطُفَ Form I It (a thing) was small, or little
    It (a thing) was small, or little; (S, Msb, K, KL;) and slender, thin, or fine: (K, KL:) and elegant, or graceful. (KL.)
  • لَطَّفَ Form II It (a medicine) acted as an attenuant, and as an emollient
    It (a medicine) acted as an attenuant, and as an emollient. ― -b2- لَطَّفَهُ, inf. n. تَلْطِيفٌ, [He made it slender]. (A, and K, art. حشر; &c.)
  • لَاطَفَ Form III He caressed; treated with blandishment; soothed; coaxed; wheedled; cajoled: i. q
    He caressed; treated with blandishment; soothed; coaxed; wheedled; cajoled: i. q. بَارَّهُ. (S, K.) ― -b2- لَاطَفَهُ also signifies He spoke softly, gently, or blandly, to him. (TA.) He acted in a good manner with him: (KL:) manifested goodness towards him: (PS:) he acted towards him with goodness: and he did so, experiencing from him the same: (TK:) or rather, as syn. with بَارَّهُ, he behaved towards him with goodness and affection and gentleness, and regard for his circumstances; or did so, experiencing from him the same behaviour.
  • أَلْطَفَهُ Form IV He gave him a gift or present
    He gave him a gift or present. (TA.) ― -b2- He showed him kindness, or goodness, and affection and gentleness, and regard for his circumstances, بِكَذَا [by such a thing, or such an action, &c.]. (S, K, TA.) Often occurring in the latter sense: but أَلْطَفَهَ بِكَذَا, expl. in the S and K by بَرَّهُ بِهِ, may mean He presented him with such a thing; like وَصَلَهُ بِهِ. ― -b3- See أَخْلَطَهُ.
  • تَلَطَّفَ لِلْأَمْرِ Form V Open entry
    i. q. تَرَفَّقَ: (S:) see طَبَّ. ― -b2- I. q. تَكَلَّفَ اللُّطْفَ. (Bd xviii. 18.) ― -b3- تَلَطَّفَ بِهِ i. q. تَرَفَّقَ. (Mgh in art. رفق.)
  • لُطْفٌ Gentleness: graciousness; courtesy; civility
    Gentleness: graciousness; courtesy; civility: (S, &c.:) see رِفْقٌ: and delicacy of flavour, &c.
  • لَطَفٌ A gift, or present
    A gift, or present: pl. أَلْطَافٌ. (MA.) ― -b2- See لَطَفةٌ.
  • لَطَفَةٌ A present
    A present; i. e. a thing sent to another in token of courtesy or honour; syn. هَدِيَّةٌ; (S, K;) as also ↓ لَطَفٌ, as stated by Z and others: pl. of the latter أَلْطَافٌ. (TA.)
  • لَطِيفٌ Gentle, gracious, courteous, or benignant
    Gentle, gracious, courteous, or benignant: and also subtle; knowing with respect to the subtilties, niceties, abstrusities, or obscurities, of things, affairs, or cases: in both of these senses often applied to a man. And Refined in manners, &c. ― -b2- Obscure, recondite, or abstruse, language. (Kull.) ― -b3- See Ham, p. 455. ― -b4- Applied to a medicine, &c., Delicate: see سَوْسَنٌ.
  • لَطِيفَةٌ A nice, subtile, subtilely excogitated, quaint, facetious, or witty, saying, expression, or allusion
    A nice, subtile, subtilely excogitated, quaint, facetious, or witty, saying, expression, or allusion; a witticism; a quaint conceit. ― -b2- [A nicety of language;] any indication of subtile meaning, apparent to the understanding, but not to be expressed; as [matters of] the sciences of taste (عُلُوم الأَدْوَاق). (KT.)
  • الإِلْطَافُ Self-pollution
    Self-pollution, by a woman: see جَلَدَ عُمَيْرَةَ in art. جلد.

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