بِرْسِيمٌ
Root: برسم
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بِرْسِيمٌ
, with kesr, vulgarly pronounced with fet-h to the ب, [بَرْسِيم,] [Alexandrian trefoil or clover; trifolium Alexandrinum; described by Forskål in his Flora Aegypt. Arab. p. 139; the most common and the best kind of succulent food for cattle grown in Egypt: it is sown when the waters of the inundation are leaving the fields; and yields three crops; the second of which is termed
رِبَّةٌ; and so is the third; but this is generally left for seed: when dry, it is termed
دَرِيسٌ: if his words have not been perverted by copyists, F explains it as] the grain of the
قُرْط, (حَبُّ القُرْط [but I think it probable that this is a mistranscription, for خَيْرُ
القُرْطِ, i. e., the best of the قُرْط,]
resembling theرُطْبَة [or رَطْبَة], or superior to this latter in size, or quality (أَجَلُّ مِنْهَا): the قُرْط resembles the رُطْبَة, [written in the TA without the vowel signs,] but is superior to this latter in size, or quality (اجلّ منها), and larger in the leaves, and is what is called in Persian شَبْذَر [or شَبْدَر]:
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