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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.)

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.

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 .

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.)

الاـِلْطَافُ Self-pollution, by a woman: see جَلَدَ عُمَيْرَةَ in art. جلد .