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رَبِيكَةٌ

Root: ربك

Full Definition

رَبِيكَةٌ and رَبِيكٌ Dates with clarified butter and [the preparation of dried curd called] أَقِط, kneaded together, and then eaten; [like رَبُوكٌ, as explained above;] and, as ISk says, sometimes water is poured upon it, and it is drunk: or, he adds, accord. to Ghaneeyeh Umm-El-Homáris, أَقِط and dates and clarified butter, made soft, not like what is called حَيْس: or flour and أَقِط ground, and then mixed with clarified butter and رُبّ [or inspissated juice]: or dates and أَقِط kneaded without clarified butter: or inspissated juice (رُبّ, K, TA) mixed with flour or سَوِيق [i. e. meal of parched barley]: or a cooked compound of dates and wheat.
2 Also the former word, A portion of fresh butter from which the milk will not separate, so that it is mixed [therewith].
3 And Water mixed with mud.
4 [Hence,] رَمَاهُ بِالرَّبِيكَةِ i. e. [He accused him of] a thing that stuck fast upon him.
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