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غِذَآءٌ ذ Aliment, or nutriment; consisting of food and of drink; (S, Msb;) the means of the growth, or increase, and of the sustenance, or support, of the body: (K:) pl. أَغْذِيَةٌ. (KL.) [One says رَجُلٌ حَسَنُ الغِذَآءِ A man good in respect of food: i. e., who feeds on good food: and سَيِّئُ الغِذَآءِ bad in respect of food: who feeds: a bad food.] ― -b2- It is also applied, by the poet Eiyoob Ibn-'Abáyeh. to (assumed tropical:) The water for irrigation of palm-trees. (TA.) -A2- Also pl. of غَذِىٌّ. (S, &c.)
An Arabic-English Lexicon. London. Williams and Norgate. 1863.
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