حَيْسٌ
Root: حيس
Full Definition
حَيْسٌ
, originally an Verbal.Noun, Dates mixed with clarified butter and [the preparation of dried curd called] أَقِط, and kneaded vehemently, or rubbed and pressed with the hand until they mingle together, whereupon their stones come forth; and sometimes
سَوِيق [or meal of parched barley or wheat] is put into it; and a little crumbled bread instead of the
اقط: or dates, of the kind called
بَرْنِىّ, and
اقط, bruised together, and kneaded vehemently with clarified butter until the stones come forth from it one by one, and then made like
ثَرِيد: it is the same as وَطْبَةٌ, except that حيس sometimes has سويق put in it, but وطبة has not: or dates of which the stones have been taken out, bruised with
اقط, and then kneaded, and rubbed and pressed with the hand until the whole becomes like
ثريد; and sometimes
سويق
is put with it: accord. to Ibn-Waddáh El-Andalusee, dates of which the stones have been taken out, mixed with
سويق; but this is not known, because of the deficiency of the ingredients: Hr is related to have described it as a
ثَرِيدَة
composed of
أَخْلَاط [or various mixtures]. A rájiz says,
[Dates and clarified butter together, then اقط, are حيس, except that it is not yet mixed]: from which it might be understood, that these components, when mixed, are not حيس: but this is the contrary of what is meant: the meaning seems to be, that these three things, when brought, are virtually حيس, as being the materials thereof, though not mixed.اَلتَّمْرُ وَالسَّمْنُ مَعًاثّمَّ الأَقِطْ اَلْحَيْسُ إِلَّا أَنَّهُ لَمْ يَخْتَلِطْ
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