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جَشِيشٌ

Root: جش

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جَشِيشٌ Wheat coarsely ground; as also مَجْشُوشٌ .
2 And, [as an epithet in which the quality of a subst. predominates,] as also جَشِيشَةٌ , What is coarsely ground, of wheat &c., or of wheat and the like: or the former, grain when bruised, brayed, or pounded, before it is cooked: and ↓ the latter, such as is cooked: but ISd says that this distinction is not of valid authority.
3 Also, the former, i. q. سَوِيقٌ [Meal of parched barley or wheat, coarsely ground, which is made into a kind of gruel]; and so ↓ the latter: or ↓ the latter is the n. un. You say, جَشِيشَةٌ اِسْقِنِى Give thou me to drink [some] سويق. Or سويق is not called , but is called جَذِيذَةٌ, q. v.
4 And the former, or جَشِيشَةٌ , (TA in art. دش,) Wheat coarsely ground, and put into a cooking-pot, into which some flesh-meat is thrown, or some dates, and then cooked: also called دَشِيشَةٌ: or a soup made of coarsely bruised wheat. (TA in art. دش.)
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