لَفِيتَةٌ
Root: لفت
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لَفِيتَةٌ
[A certain kind of gruel] made by straining water [or juice, or a decoction,] of the white colocynth, then putting it into a stone cookingpot, and cooking it until it has become thoroughly done and thickened, and then sprinkling flour upon it: or thickened
عَصِيدَة: or thick
عصيدة of
هَبِيد, i. e. حَنْظَل, [or colocynth]: so called because it is stirred about and over لِأَنَّهَا تُلْفَتُ أَىْ تُلْوَى: [see لَفَتَ شَيْئًا:] or broth resembling
حَيْس: i. q.
عَفِيتَةٌ. (TA, art. عفت.) [See also وَطِيئَة.]
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