# لفت
## Arabic
### Etymology 1

* Root
* ل ف ت (l f t)
* 6 terms

#### Verb

لَفَتَ • (lafata) I (non-past يَلْفِتُ (yalfitu), verbal noun لَفْت (laft))
* to bend, to crook
* to draw, to attract, to turn away, to divert [with إِلَى (ʔilā) ‘to what’]
** 2018 January 12, “الجابري: تسجيل التحالفات لخوض الانتخابات المقبلة بيّن حجم الخلافات الواضحة في التحالف الشيعي”, in The Baghdad Post‎: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.The politician nadīm al-jābirī has on Friday drawn [attention] to the patent disagreements in the Shia alliance, most notably the alliances for the campaign for the election of the coming year, judging that there is no common vision about the constituents of the national alliance over the national affairs and the splits in the political blocs arising from their abject failure.
* to turn, to twist, to wring

##### Conjugation
### Etymology 2

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.UB$_2$.SAR /⁠laptu, liptu⁠/, “turnip”).

#### Noun

لِفْت • (lift) m
* turnip (Brassica rapa subsp. rapa)
* similar plants
** kale (Brassica oleracea var. acephala)
** rape, rutabaga (Brassica napus)

##### Declension
### References

* Freytag, Georg (1837) “لفت”, in Lexicon arabico-latinum praesertim ex Djeuharii Firuzabadiique et aliorum Arabum operibus adhibitis Golii quoque et aliorum libris confectum‎ (in Latin), volume 4, Halle: C. A. Schwetschke, page 115
* Lane, Edward William (1863) “لفت”, in Arabic-English Lexicon‎, London: Williams & Norgate, page 2663
* Wehr, Hans with Kropfitsch, Lorenz (1985) “لفت”, in Arabisches Wörterbuch für die Schriftsprache der Gegenwart‎ (in German), 5th edition, Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, published 2011, →ISBN, pages 1159–1160

## Egyptian Arabic
### Etymology

From Arabic لِفْت (lift).

### Noun

لفت • (lift) m
* turnip

## Hijazi Arabic

* Root
* ل ف ت
* 1 term

### Etymology 1

From Arabic لَفَتَ (lafata).

#### Pronunciation

* IPA: /la.fat/

#### Verb

لفت • (lafat) I (non-past يِلْفَت (yilfit))
* to draw someone's attention, to be attractive

##### Conjugation
### Etymology 2

From Arabic لِفْت (lift).

#### Pronunciation

* IPA: /lift/, [lɪft]

#### Noun

لفت • (lift) m
* turnip

## Moroccan Arabic
### Etymology

From Arabic لِفْت (lift).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /laft/

### Noun

لفت • (laft) m (collective, singulative لفتة f (lafta), paucal لفتات (laftāt))
* turnip

## Persian
### Etymology

Borrowed from Hindi लिफ़्ट (lifṭ), from British English lift .

### Pronunciation

* (Dari, formal) IPA: [lɪft̪]
* (Dari, formal) IPA: [lɪft̪]
** (Kabuli) IPA: [lɪft̪]
** (Hazaragi) IPA: [lift̪]

### Noun

| Dari | لفت |
| Iranian Persian | آسانسور |
| Tajik | лифт |
لفت • (lift) (plural لفت‌ها (lift-hâ))
* (Dari) lift (UK), elevator (US)

## South Levantine Arabic
### Etymology 1

* Root
* ل ف ت
* 1 term
From Arabic لَفَتَ (lafata).

#### Pronunciation

* IPA: /la.fat/, [ˈla.fat]
* Audio (al-Lidd):(file)

#### Verb

لفت • (lafat) I (present بلفت (bilfit))
* to draw someone's attention, to be attractive

##### Conjugation
### Etymology 2

From British English lift.

#### Noun

لفت • (lift) m (plural لفتات (liftāt))
* lift, elevator
    Synonym: أصنصير (ʔaṣanṣēr)

### Etymology 3

From Arabic لِفْت (lift).

#### Noun

لفت • (lífet) m
* turnip