التفات

Arabic

Root
ل ف ت (l f t)
6 terms

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /il.ti.faːt/

Noun

اِلْتِفَات • (iltifāt) m

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

Declension

Declension of noun اِلْتِفَات (iltifāt)

Singular	basic singular triptote
Singular	Indefinite	Definite	Construct
Informal	اِلْتِفَات iltifāt	الِالْتِفَات al-iltifāt	اِلْتِفَات iltifāt
Nominative	اِلْتِفَاتٌ iltifātun	الِالْتِفَاتُ al-iltifātu	اِلْتِفَاتُ iltifātu
Accusative	اِلْتِفَاتًا iltifātan	الِالْتِفَاتَ al-iltifāta	اِلْتِفَاتَ iltifāta
Genitive	اِلْتِفَاتٍ iltifātin	الِالْتِفَاتِ al-iltifāti	اِلْتِفَاتِ iltifāti

Descendants

→ Azerbaijani: iltifat
→ Ottoman Turkish: التفات (iltifat)
Turkish: iltifat
→ Classical Persian: اِلْتِفَات (iltifāt)
- → Chagatai: التفات (iltifāt)
  - Uyghur: ئىلتىپات (iltipat)
  - Uzbek: iltifot

Persian

Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic اِلْتِفَات (iltifāt).

Pronunciation

(Classical Persian) IPA^(key): [ʔil.ti.ˈfɑːt]

(Dari, formal) IPA^(key): [ʔɪl̪.t̪ʰɪ.fɑ́ːt̪]
- (Kabuli) IPA^(key): [ʔɪl̪.t̪ʰɪ.fɑ́ːt̪]
- (Hazaragi) IPA^(key): [ʔil̪.t̪ʰi.fɔ́ːt̪]

(Iran, formal) IPA^(key): [ʔel̪.t̪ʰe.fɒ́ːt̪]

(Tajik, formal) IPA^(key): [ʔil̪.t̪ʰi.fɔ́t̪]

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

Noun

التفات • (eltefât)

favor; kindness
attention
Synonym: توجه (tavajjoh)
- c. 1390, Shams-ud-Dīn Muḥammad Ḥāfiẓ, “Ghazal 329”, in دیوان حافظ [The Divān of Ḥāfiẓ]‎^[1]:
  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)
(rhetoric) apostrophe

Descendants

→ Chagatai: التفات (iltifāt)
- Uyghur: ئىلتىپات (iltipat)
- Uzbek: iltifot

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