لفت

العربية

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لفت¹

verb لَفَتَ · lafata · يَلْفِتُ · لَفْت · لَافِت

  1. to bend, to crook
  2. to point out, to note
  3. to draw, to attract, to turn away, to divert لفت السياسي نديم الجابري اليوم الجمعة الى ان الخلافات واضحة في التحالف الشيعي ابرزها عملية تسجيل التحالفات لخوض الانتخابات المقبلة ، معتبرا انه لا توجد رؤية مشتركة لمكونات التحالف الوطني بشأن القضايا الوطنية والانشقاقات في الكتل السياسية ناتجة عن فشلها الذريع.
  4. to turn, to twist, to wring

لفت²

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From the root ل ف ت (l f t) in the sense of twisting or wringing out of the ground, "to pull up or extract".

Ultimately, from Proto-Semitic *lapt-.

Compare: Hebrew לֶפֶת (lefet, “turnip”), Classical Syriac ܠܰܦܬܳܐ (laftā, “turnip”), Akkadian 𒇻𒂠𒊬 (LU.UB₂.SAR /⁠laptu, liptu⁠/, “turnip”).

noun لِفْت · lift · اللِّفْت · لِفْتٌ

  1. turnip (Brassica rapa subsp. rapa)
  2. kale (Brassica oleracea var. acephala)
  3. rape, rutabaga (Brassica napus)

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@misc{micwyn_2026,
  title = {لفت},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/ar/%D9%84%D9%81%D8%AA},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}

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