قُبَّيْطَى
Root: قبط
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قُبَّيْطَى
and
قُبَيْطَآءُ , the former with teshdeed and with a short final alif, and the latter without teshdeed and with a long final alif, and
قُبَّيْطٌ and
قُبَّاطٌ , i. q.
نَاطِفٌ; [described by Golius, on the authority of an Arabic and Persian vocabulary, entitled كتاب السامى فى الاسامى, as a very white kind of sweetmeat, which consists of juice of grapes, with an addition of other things, cooked so that it becomes white and hard:] derived from قَبْطٌ signifying the act of “ collecting together. ”
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