القُمَّحَانُ
Root: قمح
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القُمَّحَانُ
, thus accord. to the Basrees, and القُمَّحَانُ, and
, The [plant called] وَرْس [q. v.]: or [the kind of perfume called] الذَّرِيرَةُ: or a substance that comes upon the surface of wine, like
الذَّرِيرَة: it is the froth, or scum, thereof: or, as some say, saffron: or a certain perfume: or a white substance that overspreads wine resembling
الذَّرِيرَة: this last is said to be what is meant in the following verse by En-Nábighah [Edh-Dhubyánee], the only poet known by AHn to have mentioned القمّحان:
[When its seals are broken, what is exsiccated of the white substance resembling particles of calamus aromaticus of the wine comes, or appears, upon its surface].إِذَا فُضَّتْ خَوَاتِمُهُ عَلَاهُ يَبِيسُ القُمَّحَانِ مِنَ المُدَامِ
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