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طَبَاهَجٌ

Root: طباهج

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طَبَاهَجٌ , (so in some copies of the K, and so in the S voce كَبَابٌ,) or طَبَاهَجَةٌ, with fet-h to the ط and the ه, [the latter app. a n. un.,] Flesh-meat cut into thin slices and broiled: or a food composed of flesh-meat and eggs: (MA; in which the word is written طَبَاهِجَة:) [or, accord. to Golius, as on the authority of J and El-Haleemee, a food of pieces of flesh-meat, eggs, onion, and water: but I do not find that J has explained it otherwise than by what here follows:] i. q. كَبَابٌ: (S voce كَبَابٌ:) or a kind of fry of flesh-meat: arabicized from [the Pers.] تَبَاهَهْ. [See also De Sacy's Chrest. Arabe, sec. ed. i. 175.]
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