خُرْسَةٌ
Root: خرس
Full Definition
خُرْسَةٌ
Food for a woman who has given birth to a child; what is made for her, such as
فَرِيقَة
and the like; as also [خُرْصَةٌ,] with ص. خُرْسَةُ مَرْيَمَ [The child-birth-food of Maryam], applied to dates, and occurring in a trad., alludes to verse 25 of chap. xix. of the Kur, وَهُزِّى إِلَيْكِ الخ: and Khálid Ibn-Safwán uses in the same manner the phrase
مَرْيَمَ; in which تخرسة is an Verbal.Noun used as a subst.; or it may be a subst., like تَوْرِيَةٌ.
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