Lane's Arabic-English Lexicon

خَبِيصٌ

Root: خبص

Full Definition

خَبِيصٌ Mixed; syn. مَخْبُوصٌ.
2 A kind of food, sweet, well known, made of dates and clarified butter, mixed together: [Golius adds, on the authority of Ibn-Maaroof, “ aut amylo et defruto; ” app. meaning, or of starch and of new wine of which half or a third part has been boiled away: and one kind, called خَبِيصٌ مُرَمَّلٌ, was made with coarse flour: (see جَرِيشٌ:)] of the measure فَعِيلٌ in the sense of the measure مَفْعُولٌ: خَبِيصَةٌ is a more particular term [signifying a mess of خَبِيص].


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