خفیف

Borrowed from Arabic خَفِيف (ḵafīf, “light, nimble, agile”).

خفیف • (hafif)

1. light, having little weight, not heavy

   Synonyms: سبك (sebuk), یینی (yini)

2. foolish, silly, flighty, light-headed
3. quick, sharp, clever, ingenious
4. (of a consonant) not reduplicated

• Turkish: hafif

• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “hafif1”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 1835
• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “خفیف”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[1] (in French), Constantinople: Mihran, page 547
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Levis”, in Complementum thesauri linguarum orientalium, seu onomasticum latino-turcico-arabico-persicum, simul idem index verborum lexici turcico-arabico-persici, quod latinâ, germanicâ, aliarumque linguarum adjectâ nomenclatione nuper in lucem editum‎^[2], Vienna, column 938
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “خفیف”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎^[3], Vienna, column 1921
• Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “hafif”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “خفیف”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[4], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 857

Borrowed from Arabic خَفِيف (ḵafīf).

خفیف • (xafif) (comparative خفیف‌تَر, superlative خفیف‌تَرین)

1. light, not heavy

   Synonym: سبک (sabok)

   Antonyms: ثقیل (saqil), سنگین (sangin), گران (gerân)

2. slight, not severe (e.g. of a disease)

   Antonym: شدید (šadid)

3. (poetry) Relating to a certain type of poetic meter, usually found in masnavis.

• Hayyim, Sulayman (1934) “خفیف”, in New Persian–English dictionary, Teheran: Librairie-imprimerie Béroukhim