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عَدَسِيَّةٌ

Root: عدس

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عَدَسِيَّةٌ[ A soup made by boiling yellow lentils in water, till nearly dissolved, and then adding red vinegar, coriander, and salt.

def.2 It is now applied also to Bats' dung; which is used in medicine, administered internally; and also applied externally, mixed with vinegar, to tumours: so says Forskål in his Descr. Animalium, p. iii.: but he there states عدسيه to be an appel-lation of the bat itself.]
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