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خُرْسَةٌ أخرس خرس خرسه خرسة Food for a woman who has given birth to a child; (S, A, K;) what is made for her, such as فَرِيقَة and the like; as also [خُرْصَةٌ,] with ص. (TA.) خُرْسَةُ مَرْيَمَ [The child-birth-food of Maryam], applied to dates, and occurring in a trad., alludes to verse 25 of chap. xix. of the Kur, وَهُزِّى إِِلَيْكِ الخ: and Khálid Ibn-Safwán uses in the same manner the phrase ↓ تَخْرِسَةُ مَرْيَمَ; in which تخرسة is an inf. n. used as a subst.; or it may be a subst., like تَوْرِيَةٌ. (TA.)

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