خَزِيرٌ
Root: خزر
Full Definition
خَزِيرٌ
and
خَزِيرَةٌ
A kind of food like
عَصِيدَة
with flesh-meat; made of flesh-meat that has remained throughout a night, cut into small pieces, and put into a cooking-pot with abundance of water, and with salt; and when it is thoroughly cooked, some flour is sprinkled upon it, and it is stirred about with it, and seasoned with any seasoning that the maker pleases to add: when there is no flesh-meat, it is called عَصِيدَة: or a broth made with the water in which bran has been soaked, which water is strained, and then cooked: this is what is called by the Persians سَبُوسَبَا: [see also حَرِيرَةٌ:] or خَزِيرَة is flour thrown upon water or upon milk, and cooked, and then eaten with dates, or supped: it is also called سَخِينَةٌ and سَخُونَةٌ and نَفِيتَةٌ and حُذْرُقَّةٌ: حَرِيَرة is thinner: and a soup made of grease or gravy and flour; as also
خَزَرٌ : but no one except the author of the K mentions this last form: in the other lexicons, soup of grease or gravy is said only to be called خَزِيرٌ and خَزِيرَةٌ.
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