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The corpus record — Arabic

لَطِيف

latiyf

laTiyfN * 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, lang

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Where it lives

  • The Quran 7 · 0.55/10k

What it meant — Lane's Arabic-English Lexicon

laTiyfN * 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 sawosanN .

In the wild

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Quran text from Tanzil (tanzil.net), distributed verbatim per its license. Morphological facts derived from the Quranic Arabic Corpus (corpus.quran.com, Kais Dukes), stated as facts with source credit. Dictionary senses from Lane, An Arabic-English Lexicon (1863-93, public domain), via the Perseus Digital Library.