Lane's Arabic-English Lexicon

وِكَاثٌ

Root: وكث

Full Definition

وِكَاثٌ and وُكَاثٌ Food, aliment, or nutriment, (غِذَآءٌ: so in some copies of the K, and in the TA: in the CK, غَدَآءٌ, or a morning meal:) that is prepared, or taken, in haste, (يُسْتَعْجَلُ بِهِ,) [before the morning-meal called غَدَآء: see 10].


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