ل • ط • ف

It (a thing) was small, or little; (S, Msb, K, KL;) and slender, thin, or fine: (K, KL:) and elegant, or graceful. (KL.)

It (a medicine) acted as an attenuant, and as an emollient. لَطَّفَهُ, inf. n. تَلْطِيفٌ, [He made it slender]. (A, and K, art. حشر; &c.)

He caressed; treated with blandishment; soothed; coaxed; wheedled; cajoled: i. q. بَارَّهُ. (S, K.) 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.

He gave him a gift or present. (TA.) 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. See أَخْلَطَهُ.

i. q. تَرَفَّقَ: (S:) see طَبَّ. I. q. تَكَلَّفَ اللُّطْفَ. (Bd xviii. 18.) تَلَطَّفَ بِهِ i. q. تَرَفَّقَ. (Mgh in art. رفق.)

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

A gift, or present: pl. أَلْطَافٌ. (MA.) See لَطَفةٌ.

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.)

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. Obscure, recondite, or abstruse, language. (Kull.) See Ham, p. 455. Applied to a medicine, &c., Delicate: see سَوْسَنٌ.

A nice, subtile, subtilely excogitated, quaint, facetious, or witty, saying, expression, or allusion; a witticism; a quaint conceit. [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.)

Gentleness: graciousness; courtesy; civility: (S, &c.:) see رِفْقٌ: and delicacy of flavour, &c.