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لَطِيفٌ

Root: لطف

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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.
2 Obscure, recondite, or abstruse, language.
3 See Ham, p. 455.
4 Applied to a medicine, &c., Delicate: see سَوْسَنٌ.
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