التفات

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Arabic

Root
ل ف ت (l f t)
6 terms

Pronunciation

Noun

اِلْتِفَات (iltifātm

  1. verbal noun of اِلْتَفَتَ (iltafata) (form VIII)
  2. (rhetoric) apostrophe
    Synonym: مُنَاجَاة (munājāh)

Declension

Descendants

Persian

Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic اِلْتِفَات (iltifāt).

Pronunciation

Readings
Classical reading? iltifāt
Dari reading? iltifāt
Iranian reading? eltefât
Tajik reading? iltifot

Noun

التفات (eltefât)

  1. favor; kindness
  2. attention
    Synonym: توجه (tavajjoh)
    • c. 1390, Shams-ud-Dīn Muḥammad Ḥāfiẓ, “Ghazal 329”, in دیوان حافظ:
      شاهین صفت چو طعمه چشیدم ز دست شاه
      کی باشد التفات به صید کبوترم
      šāhīn sifat čū tu'ma čašīdam zi dast-i šāh
      kay bāšad iltifāt ba sayd-i kabūtaram
      When I have tasted morsels from the king's hand like the royal falcon,
      How shall my attention be towards hunting pigeons?
      (Classical Persian transliteration)
  3. (rhetoric) apostrophe

Descendants