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لطف

l-ṭ-f

The root لطف (lTf) means to treat someone with gentleness, kindness, and affection. It implies speaking softly, soothing, and showing good manners. It can also mean to caress or coax someone.

Root

ل-ط-ف

11

Total uses

11

Verses

11

Surahs

6

Forms

Root

ل-ط-ف

Root Meaning

The root لطف (lTf) means to treat someone with gentleness, kindness, and affection. It implies speaking softly, soothing, and showing good manners. It can also mean to caress or coax someone.

Derived forms

لَطِيفࣱ4ٱللَّطِيفُ2ٱلطُّوفَانَ2وَلۡيَتَلَطَّفۡ1لَطِيفًا1لِيُطۡفِـُٔواْ1

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📖 Ayaths where this word appears (8)

Al-An'am 6:103

ٱللَّطِيفُMeaning here: The root لطف (lTf) means to treat someone with gentleness, kindness, and affection. It implies speaking softly, soothing, and showing good manners. It can also mean to caress or coax someone.

Vision comprehendeth Him not, but He comprehendeth (all) vision. He is the Subtile, the Aware

Yusuf 12:100

لَطِيفٌMeaning here: The root لطف (lTf) means to treat someone with gentleness, kindness, and affection. It implies speaking softly, soothing, and showing good manners. It can also mean to caress or coax someone.

And he placed his parents on the dais and they fell down before him prostrate, and he said: O my father! This is the interpretation of my dream of old. My Lord hath made it true, and He hath shown me kindness, since He took me out of the prison and hath brought you from the desert after Satan had made strife between me and my brethren. Lo! my Lord is tender unto whom He will. He is the Knower, the Wise

Al-Kahf 18:19

وَلْيَتَلَطَّفْMeaning here: The root لطف (lTf) means to treat someone with gentleness, kindness, and affection. It implies speaking softly, soothing, and showing good manners. It can also mean to caress or coax someone.

And in like manner We awakened them that they might question one another. A speaker from among them said: How long have ye tarried? They said: We have tarried a day or some part of a day, (Others) said: Your Lord best knoweth what ye have tarried. Now send one of you with this your silver coin unto the city, and let him see what food is purest there and bring you a supply thereof. Let him be courteous and let no man know of you

Al-Hajj 22:63

لَطِيفٌMeaning here: The root لطف (lTf) means to treat someone with gentleness, kindness, and affection. It implies speaking softly, soothing, and showing good manners. It can also mean to caress or coax someone.

Seest thou not how Allah sendeth down water from the sky and then the earth becometh green upon the morrow? Lo! Allah is Subtile, Aware

Luqman 31:16

لَطِيفٌMeaning here: The root لطف (lTf) means to treat someone with gentleness, kindness, and affection. It implies speaking softly, soothing, and showing good manners. It can also mean to caress or coax someone.

O my dear son! Lo! though it be but the weight of a grain of mustard-seed, and though it be in a rock, or in the heavens, or in the earth, Allah will bring it forth. Lo! Allah is Subtile, Aware

Al-Ahzab 33:34

لَطِيفًاMeaning here: The root لطف (lTf) means to treat someone with gentleness, kindness, and affection. It implies speaking softly, soothing, and showing good manners. It can also mean to caress or coax someone.

And bear in mind that which is recited in your houses of the revelations of Allah and wisdom. Lo! Allah is Subtile, Aware

Ash-Shura 42:19

لَطِيفٌۢMeaning here: The root لطف (lTf) means to treat someone with gentleness, kindness, and affection. It implies speaking softly, soothing, and showing good manners. It can also mean to caress or coax someone.

Allah is gracious unto His slaves. He provideth for whom He will. And He is the Strong, the Mighty

Al-Mulk 67:14

ٱللَّطِيفُMeaning here: The root لطف (lTf) means to treat someone with gentleness, kindness, and affection. It implies speaking softly, soothing, and showing good manners. It can also mean to caress or coax someone.

Should He not know what He created? And He is the Subtile, the Aware

🔎 Across the Quran (3)

Al-A'raf 7:133

فَأَرۡسَلۡنَا عَلَيۡهِمُ وَٱلۡجَرَادَ وَٱلۡقُمَّلَ وَٱلضَّفَادِعَ وَٱلدَّمَ ءَايَٰتࣲ مُّفَصَّلَٰتࣲ فَٱسۡتَكۡبَرُواْ وَكَانُواْ قَوۡمࣰ ا مُّجۡرِمِينَ

Then We afflicted them with a great flood and locusts, and the lice, and the frogs, and the blood. All these were distinct signs and yet they remained haughty. They were a wicked people

Al-Ankabut 29:14

وَلَقَدۡ أَرۡسَلۡنَا نُوحًا إِلَىٰ قَوۡمِهِۦ فَلَبِثَ فِيهِمۡ أَلۡفَ سَنَةٍ إِلَّا خَمۡسِينَ عَامࣰ ا فَأَخَذَهُمُ وَهُمۡ ظَٰلِمُونَ

We did indeed send Noah to his people and he lived among them a thousand years save fifty. Eventually the Flood overtook them while they were engaged in wrongdoing

As-Saff 61:8

يُرِيدُونَ نُورَ ٱللَّهِ بِأَفۡوَٰهِهِمۡ وَٱللَّهُ مُتِمُّ نُورِهِۦ وَلَوۡ كَرِهَ ٱلۡكَٰفِرُونَ

They seek to extinguish Allah's light (by blowing) with their mouths, but Allah shall spread His light in all its fullness, howsoever the unbelievers may abhor this