الفَقْدُ
Root: فقد
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الفَقْدُ
, by Az, or in a number of the copies of the work of Az, erroneously written الفَقَدُ, A certain plant, resembling the [species of cuscuta, or dodder, called] كَشُوث: and a beverage prepared from raisins or honey or [the plant] كشوث, as also
الفُقْدُدُ : or, as AHn says, a certain plant which is thrown into the beverage of honey, which beverage consequently becomes strong, and is then called
الفَقْدُ: he says, the فَقْد is what is called in Pers.
فَنْجَنْكُشْت: IAar says, [or الفَقْدَةُكشوث ? then. un.] is the
كشوث: and a beverage prepared from raisins and honey; and it is said that a beverage (نَبِيذ) is made of honey, and then the
فَقْد
is thrown into it, and causes it to become strong: so says Lth: and he says that the فَقْد is a plant resembling the
كشوث: and
الفُقْدُدُ is the
نَبِيذ
of the
كشوث.
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