عَوْبَثَانِىٌّ
Root: عبث
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عَوْبَثَانِىٌّ
Flour and clarified butter and dates mixed with fresh milk: so it is said to mean in the following verse:
[When the mess of flour and clarified butter and dates mixed with fresh milk displeases us, we leave it, and choose the fat camel's hump, or the camel's hump cut in pieces]: (S, O: [see also خَصِيفٌ:]) this verse is by Náshireh Ibn-Málik, replying to El-Mukhabbal, who reproached him for feeding upon milk.إِذَا مَا الخَصِيفُ العَوْبَثَانِىُّ سَآءَنَا تَرَكْنَاهُ وَٱخْتَرْنَا السَّدِيفَ المُسَرْهَدَا
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