مَضْبَاةٌ
Root: ضبو
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مَضْبَاةٌ
, or مِضْبَاةٌ, (thus in a copy of the S, [and Freytag states it to be thus accord. to IDrd, but accord. to the S to be ضَبَاوَة, which is evidently a mistake,]) or مُضْبَاةٌ, with damm, A cake of bread baked in hot ashes: thus called by some of the people of El-Yemen: but [ISd says, respecting مَضْبَاةٌ as thus expl.,] I know not how this is unless the thing be named by the name of the place.
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