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كُنَافَةٌ ذ A kind of pastry, resembling vermicelli, made of fine flour and water mixed in such proportions as to compose a thin paste, which is poured into a vessel whose bottom is pierced with numerous small holes: the vessel being then moved circuitously over a large round tray of tinned copper, beneath which is a fire, the paste runs in fine streams, is quickly but slightly baked. and swept off. For eating, it is slightly baked with clarified butter (سمن), and then sweetened with honey, or sometimes with treacle, or sugar. ― -b2- كُنَافَةٌ i. q. Pers. رِشْتَهْ قَطَائِفْ [Thread katáïf]. (KL.) See إِِطْرِيَةٌ.
An Arabic-English Lexicon. London. Williams and Norgate. 1863.
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