أَقِطٌ

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أَقِطٌ and إِقِطٌ and أَقَطٌ and إِقْطٌ, the last sometimes occurring in poetry, and formed from the first, by transferring the vowel of the ق to the preceding letter, or a contraction of the second, accord. to a common usage of [the tribe of] Temeem in the cases of words of this measure, and أَقْطٌ and أُقْطٌ, of all which the first is the most chaste, and the last is strange, [A preparation of dried curd;] a preparation of, or thing made from, milk of sheep or goats, which has been churned, and of which the butter has been taken, cooked, and then left until it becomes concrete: or made from the milk of camels, in particular: or milk which is dried, and has become hard, like stone; with which one cooks; repeatedly mentioned in trads.: or a thing made from milk; being a kind of cheese: pl. أُقْطَانٌ.

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