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هَرِيسَةٌ

Root: هرس

Full Definition

هَرِيسَةٌ Grain, or wheat, bruised, brayed, or pounded, [vehemently, or violently, (see هَرِيسٌ,)] and then cooked: [or a kind of thick pottage, prepared of cooked wheat and cooked flesh-meats much pounded together: but this is probably one of the kinds of هريسة peculiar to post-classical times; which kinds are many: see De Sacy's Relation de l'Égypte par Abd-Allatif, pp. 307 and 312:] of the measure فَعِيلَةٌ in the sense of the measure مَفْعُولَةٌ: from the verb above-mentioned: pl. هَرَائِسُ.
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