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رُبٌّ

Root: رب

Full Definition

رُبٌّ Rob, or inspissated juice, (دِبْس,) of any fruit; i. e., the first, or clear, juice of the thick residuum of any fruit after it has been pressed and cooked: thick طِلَآء [or expressed juice; such as the inspissated juice of dates, with which a skin for clarified butter is seasoned; see 1, in the latter half of the paragraph]: or what flows from fresh ripe dates, like honey, when it has been cooked [and so rendered thick]; before which it is called صَقْرٌ: (Msb in the present art. and in art. صقر:) what is prepared by coction from, or of, dates: expressed juice of grapes, and of apples, &c., cooked and [so] thickened: and dregs, or black dregs, of clarified butter, and of olive-oil: pl. رُبُوبٌ and رِبَابٌ [and pl. pl. (i. e. pl. of رُبُوبٌ) رُبُوبَاتٌ, which means sorts, or species, of رُبّ]

def.2 See also رُبَّى.
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