Lane's Arabic-English Lexicon

بُورِىٌّ

Root: بور

Full Definition

بُورِىٌّ : see بَارِىٌّ, in two places.

def.2 Also A kind of fish; [a species of mullet, the mugil cephalus of Linnæus, of the roe and milt of which is made what the Italians call botargo, and the Arabs بَطَارِخ, and, accord. to Golius, بوترغا;] so called from a town in Egypt, named بُورَةُ, between Tinnees and Dimyát, of which there are now no remains.


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