لطيفة

Arabic

Root
ل ط ف (l-ṭ-f)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /la.tˤiː.fa/

Noun

لَطِيفَة • (laṭīfa) f (plural لَطَائِف (laṭāʔif))

1. witticism, quip
2. joke, jest
3. subtlety, nicety

Descendants

• → Azerbaijani: lətifə
• → Ottoman Turkish: لطیفه (latife)

  > Turkish: latife (inherited)

• → Persian: لطیفه (latife)
• → Tajik: латифа (latifa)
• → Uyghur: لەتىپە (letipe)
• → Uzbek: latifa

Adjective

لَطِيفَة • (laṭīfa) f

1. feminine singular of لَطِيف (laṭīf)

References

• Баранов, Х. К. (2011) “لطيفة”, in Большой арабско-русский словарь (Bolʹšoj arabsko-russkij slovarʹ), 11th edition, Москва: Живой язык, →ISBN
• Lane, Edward William (1863) “لطيفة”, in Arabic-English Lexicon‎^[1], London: Williams & Norgate
• Wehr, Hans (1960) “لطيفة”, in J. Milton Cowan, editor, A Dictionary of Modern Written Arabic, 3rd edition, Ithaca, NY: Otto Harrassowitz