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رَغِيفٌ ذ A round cake (MA, KL) of bread, (S, MA, Mgh, KL,) such as is thick, or not thin, (MA,) the contr. of such as is termed رَقِيق; (Mgh;) [generally about a span, or less, in width, and from half an inch to an inch in thickness;] of the measure فَعِيلٌ in the sense of the measure مَفْعُولٌ, (Msb,) from رَغَفَ as expl. in the first sentence above: (JK, O, Msb, K:) pl. [of pauc.] أَرْغِفَةٌ (S, O, Msb, K) and [of mult.] رُغْفَانٌ (JK, S, MA, Mgh, Msb, K) and رُغُفٌ (JK, S, O, Msb) and رُغْفٌ and ↓ تَرَاغِيفُ ; (JK, O, K;) the last anomalous, (TK,) mentioned by Ibn-'Abbád. (O.)
An Arabic-English Lexicon. London. Williams and Norgate. 1863.

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