لطف
1 لَطُفَ It (a thing) was small, or little; (
S,
Msb,
K,
KL;) and slender, thin, or fine: (
K,
KL:) and elegant, or graceful. (
KL.) 2 لَطَّفَ 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.) 3 لَاطَفَ 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.
4 أَلْطَفَهُ 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.
5 تَلَطَّفَ لِلْأَمْرِ
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: (
S, &c.:) see رِفْقٌ: and delicacy of flavour, &c.
لَطَفٌ A gift, or present:
pl. أَلْطَافٌ. (
MA.)
b2: See لَطَفةٌ.
لَطَفَةٌ 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: 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 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, by a woman: see جَلَدَ عُمَيْرَةَ in art. جلد.
