بَسِيسَةٌ
Root: بس
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بَسِيسَةٌ
Wheat, &c., broken, or crumbled, or bruised: or سَوِيق [or meal of parched barley or wheat], and flour, &c., mixed with clarified butter, or with olive-oil: or what is stirred about with olive-oil, or with clarified butter, and not wetted [with water]: or سويق, or flour, or ground
أَقِط, stirred about, or moistened, with clarified butter, or with oliveoil; after which it is eaten, without being cooked: or سويق, and flour, moistened with a little water, but more moist than such as is prepared in the manner termed
لَتٌّ; and used as travelling-provision: and bread dried and pounded, and [mixed with water so that it is] drunk like as
سويق
is drunk: IDrd thinks it to be what is termed
فَتُوث: also barley mixed with date-stones, for camels: or, accord. to As, anything that one mixes with another thing: such as
سويق
with
اقط, which one then moistens with fresh butter: and such as barley with date-stones, which one then moistens, for camels: pl. بُسُسٌ, which is explained in the K as signifying messes of
سويق
moistened, or stirred about with water, &c. (أَسْوِقَةٌ مَلْتُوتَةٌ).
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