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سُوبِيَةٌ

Root: سوب

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سُوبِيَةٌ A well-known [beverage of the kind called] نَبِيذ, prepared from wheat, and much drunk by the people of Egypt, at their festivals: and also prepared from rice: [also from the pips of a species of melon, called in Egypt عَبْدَلَّاوِىّ; (see art. عبد; and see also White's “ Abdollatiphi Hist. Aegypti Compendium, ” pp. 52-3; or De Sacy's transl., pp. 34-5;) moistened and pounded, and steeped in water, which is then strained, and sweetened with sugar:] it is mentioned in a trad. and by several writers.
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