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حَنِيذٌ ذ Roasted flesh-meat; as also ↓ مَحْنُوذٌ and ↓ حَنْذٌ , which last is an inf. n. used as an epithet: (L:) or roasted with heated stones, (T, A, L,) in order to be cooked thoroughly: (A:) or a sheep or goat roasted, and having heated stones put upon it to cook it thoroughly; (S, L, K;) as also ↓ مَحْنُوذٌ ; (TA;) which Ibn-'Arafeh explains as meaning roasted by means of heated stones put upon it, so thoroughly as to fall off from the bones: or حَنِيذٌ, he says, signifies roasted by means of hot stones so as to drip: (L:) or hot, roasted, flesh-meat, of which the moisture drips: (Sh, L, K: *) this is said by Az to be the best explanation that has been given of it: (TA:) or roasted flesh-meat not overdone: (L:) or roasted by being buried in the fire: (AZ, L:) or [roasted flesh-meat] for which one has dug a hole in the ground in which it is then covered over [with fire or heated stones], agreeably with a wellknown practice of the Arabs of the desert: (Fr, L:) or roasted in a hole dug in the ground, heated stones being put upon it. (Har p. 20.) [See also مَرْمُوضٌ.] ― -b2- See also 1. ― -b3- Also (assumed tropical:) Heated water: (K:) or hot water. (Sh, T, L.) ― -b4- (assumed tropical:) A kind of oil. (K.) ― -b5- (assumed tropical:) A perfumed preparation of خِطْمِىّ [or marsh-mallows] and the like, for washing the head. (K, * TA.)
An Arabic-English Lexicon. London. Williams and Norgate. 1863.

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