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رَبِيكَةٌ ذ (S, K) and ↓ رَبِيكٌ (K) Dates with clarified butter and [the preparation of dried curd called] أَقِط, (S, K,) kneaded together, and then eaten; [like رَبُوكٌ, as explained above;] and, as ISk says, sometimes water is poured upon it, and it is drunk: or, he adds, accord. to Ghaneeyeh Umm-El-Homáris, أَقِط and dates and clarified butter, made soft, not like what is called حَيْس: (S:) or (accord. to Ed-Dubeyreeyeh, S) flour and أَقِط (S, K) ground, and then (S) mixed with clarified butter (S, K) and رُبّ [or inspissated juice]: (S:) or dates and أَقِط (K, TA) kneaded without clarified butter: (TA:) or inspissated juice (رُبّ, K, TA) mixed (TA) with flour or سَوِيق [i. e. meal of parched barley]: (K, TA:) or a cooked compound of dates and wheat. (K.) ― -b2- Also the former word, A portion of fresh butter from which the milk will not separate, (Sgh, K,) so that it is mixed [therewith]. (Sgh.) ― -b3- And Water mixed with mud. (Sgh, K.) ― -b4- [Hence,] رَمَاهُ بِالرَّبِيكَةِ i. e. (assumed tropical:) [He accused him of] a thing that stuck fast upon him. (TA.)
An Arabic-English Lexicon. London. Williams and Norgate. 1863.

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