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خُبْزٌ خبز a word of well-known meaning; (K;) [Bread;] that which is eaten. (S.) It is said in a prov., كُلُّ أَدَاةِ الخُبْزِ عِنْدِى غَيْرُهُ [All the apparatus of bread is in my possession except it, namely, the bread itself]: the origin of which was this: a company of men demanded hospitality of a certain man; and when they sat down, he threw down a [piece of leather such as is called] نِطْع, and put upon it a mill-stone, and adjusted its pivot, and covered it [with the upper stone]: and the presence of his apparatus made the company to wonder: then he took the handle of the mill, (هَادِى الرَّحَى,) and began to turn it: whereupon they said to him, What dost thou? and he answered in the words of this proverb. (K.) ― -b2- [Hence,] الخُلَّةُ خُبْزُ الإِِبِلِ (tropical:) [Sweet herbage is the bread of camels: and الحَمْضُ فَاكِهَتُهَا, or اَحْمُهَا, sour herbage is their fruit, or flesh-meat]. (A, TA.)
An Arabic-English Lexicon. London. Williams and Norgate. 1863.
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