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Latif can also be a masculine given name, as short form of Abdul Latif, meaning "servant of the Gentle". Its feminine form is Latifa . "Al-Latif" also means "The Subtle".
The letter ''a'' of the ''al-'' is unstressed, and can be transliterated by almost any vowel, often by ''e''. So the first part can appear as Abdel, Abdul or Abd-al. The second part may appear as Latif, Lateef or in other ways. The whole name is subject to variable spacing and hyphenation.
English language authors use three methods when referring to specific laṭā’if: a transliteration of the Arabic word associated with the laṭīfa; a translation of the word's general Arabic meaning; an interpretation of the experience that is the word's specific Sufi meaning. Laleh Bahktiar [5] uses both a transliteration and a translation:
More than 24 hours later, searchers located Joshua Al-Lateef Jr. dead in a pond near the apartment building where he lived. The Butler County Coroner’s Office preliminarily ruled his death an ...
Archaic and rare words are also omitted. A bigger listing including words very rarely seen in English is at Wiktionary dictionary. Given the number of words which have entered English from Arabic, this list is split alphabetically into sublists, as listed below: List of English words of Arabic origin (A-B) List of English words of Arabic origin ...
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Lateef Adegbite, Nigerian regional Attorney General Nigeria; Lateef Crowder Dos Santos, Brazilian-born American actor; Lateef Elford-Alliyu, English football player; Lateef Jakande, Nigerian journalist and politician; Lateef Kayode, Nigerian boxer; Lateef the Truthspeaker, American hip hop artist
The biggest-selling English dictionary of the 18th century defined alcohol as "a very fine and impalpable powder, or a very pure well rectified spirit." [23] [24] alcove القُبَّة al-qobba [ʔlqubːa] (listen ⓘ), vault, dome or cupola. That sense for the word is in medieval Arabic dictionaries. [8]