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وَطِيْئَةٌ

Root: وطأ

Full Definition

وَطِيْئَةٌ A certain kind of food, i. q. حَيْسَةٌ: or dates of which the stones are taken out, and which are kneaded with milk: or what is called أَقِط, with sugar: or a food of the Arabs, prepared with dates, which are put into a stone cooking-pot; then water is poured upon them, and clarified butter if there be any; (but no اقط is mixed up with them;) and then it is drunk, like حيسة: or it is like جَيْس; dates and اقط kneaded together with clarified butter: or a certain kind of food, also called وَطِىْءٌ; a thin عَصِيدَة: when it is thickened, it is called نَفِيتَة; when a little more thick, نَفِيثَة; when a little thicker, لَفِيتَة; and when so thick that it may be chewed, عصيدة.
2 Also, A thing like [the kind of sack called] a غِرَارَة: or a غرارة containing dried meat (قَدِيد) and كَعْك and other things:
3 أَخْرِجْ إِلَيْنَا ثَلَاثَ أُكَلٍ مِنْ وطيئةٍ Take forth and give us three cakes of bread from a غرارة.
4 [See also وَاطِئَة and مُوَطَّأٌ.]
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