زُبْدٌ

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زُبْدٌ [Fresh butter of the cow or buffalo or sheep or goat;] what is produced by churning from milk of cows [or buffaloes] and of sheep or goats; what is thus produced from camels' milk being termed جُبَابٌ, not زُبْدٌ; the زُبْد of سَمْن before it is clarified over the fire; [i. e. butter before it is clarified over the fire;] the زُبْد [in the CK, erroneously, زَبَد] of milk; what is extracted from milk; and signifies the same as زُبْدٌ: زُبْدَةٌ is a more particular term, meaning a piece, bit, portion, or somewhat, of زُبْد: and زُبْدُ اللَّبَنِ signifies also the froth (رَغْوَة) of milk [if this be not a mistake occasioned by finding الزُّبْدُ expl. as meaning زَبَدُ اللَّبَنِ instead of زُبْدُ اللَّبَنِ]. قَدْ صَرَّحَ المَحْضُ عَنِ الزُّبْدِ [The clear milk has become distinct from the fresh butter] is a prov., relating to the appearance of the truth after information that has been doubted. And اِرْتَجَنَتِ is another prov. [expl. in art. رجن].
2 زُبْدَةٌ has for its pl. زُبَدٌ, which is metonymically applied to The choice, or best, portions, [or what we often term the cream of anything; as, for instance,] of discourse, or of a story or the like.
3 [And it also means An issue, or event: (see an ex. voce مَخَضَ:) generally, such as is relishable, or pleasing. Hence, app.,] one says, كَانَ لِقَاؤُكَ العُمُرِ [The meeting with thee was emphatically the event of life; meaning, the most relishable, or pleasing, event of life].

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