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إِِسْفَنْطٌ ذ , (S, M, K,) so in the handwriting of J, (TA,) and إِِسْفِنْطٌ, (M, K,) also written with ص, (As, and K in art. صفط,) Perfumed juice of grapes: (M, L, K:) or wine in which are aromatics: (TA:) or the upper part of wine; (AO, M, K;) the clear part thereof; (AO, TA;) so called because the jars (دِنَان) have drunk up, or absorbed, the greater portion of it, (K, TA,) the clear part remaining; (TA;) or from سَفِيطٌ in the first of the senses assigned to it above: (IAar, K:) or various wines mixed together: (TA:) or it signifies a certain sort of beverage or wine: and is a Persian word, [originally إِِسْفَنْدٌ,] arabicized: (S, K:) or, accord. to As, a Greek word, (S, M,) signifying wine: (TA:) if not Arabic, all its letters are radicals: and Sb says that it is a quinqueliteral-radical word, like إِِصْطَبْلٌ. (TA.)
An Arabic-English Lexicon. London. Williams and Norgate. 1863.

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