خبيص

Arabic

Alternative forms

• خَبِيصَة (ḵabīṣa)

Etymology

Borrowed from Aramaic חַבִיצָא / חָבִיצָא (ḥābiṣā, ḥabiṣā) / ܚܒܺܝܨܳܐ (ḥəbīṣā), same dish, from חָבַצ (ḥābaṣ) / ܚܒܰܨ (ḥbaṣ, “to beat into a pulp, to press, to squeeze”).

Noun

خَبِيص • (ḵabīṣ) m

1. a dish from flour and fat and dates or honey or the like for sweetening put together and fried for festive breakfast, khabees

Declension

Declension of noun خَبِيص (ḵabīṣ)

Singular	basic singular triptote
	Indefinite	Definite	Construct
Informal	خَبِيص ḵabīṣ	الْخَبِيص al-ḵabīṣ	خَبِيص ḵabīṣ
Nominative	خَبِيصٌ ḵabīṣun	الْخَبِيصُ al-ḵabīṣu	خَبِيصُ ḵabīṣu
Accusative	خَبِيصًا ḵabīṣan	الْخَبِيصَ al-ḵabīṣa	خَبِيصَ ḵabīṣa
Genitive	خَبِيصٍ ḵabīṣin	الْخَبِيصِ al-ḵabīṣi	خَبِيصِ ḵabīṣi

Derived terms

• خَبَصَ (ḵabaṣa, “to mix, to mingle”)
• خَبَّصَ (ḵabbaṣa, “to mix up, to jumble”)
• خَبَّاص (ḵabbāṣ, “one who jumbles things”)
• مِخْبَصَة (miḵbaṣa, “tool for mingling khabees”)

References

• “ḥbyṣ”, in The Comprehensive Aramaic Lexicon Project, Cincinnati: Hebrew Union College, 1986–
• “ḥbṣ”, in The Comprehensive Aramaic Lexicon Project, Cincinnati: Hebrew Union College, 1986–
• Fraenkel, Siegmund (1886) Die aramäischen Fremdwörter im Arabischen (in German), Leiden: E. J. Brill, page 36
• Freytag, Georg (1830) “خبيص”, in Lexicon arabico-latinum praesertim ex Djeuharii Firuzabadiique et aliorum Arabum operibus adhibitis Golii quoque et aliorum libris confectum‎^[1] (in Latin), volume 1, Halle: C. A. Schwetschke, page 457
• Lane, Edward William (1863) “خبيص”, in Arabic-English Lexicon‎^[2], London: Williams & Norgate, page 697
• Wehr, Hans (1979) “خبيص”, in J. Milton Cowan, editor, A Dictionary of Modern Written Arabic, 4th edition, Ithaca, NY: Spoken Language Services, →ISBN, page 263
• Wehr, Hans with Kropfitsch, Lorenz (1985) “خبيص”, in Arabisches Wörterbuch für die Schriftsprache der Gegenwart‎^[3] (in German), 5th edition, Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, published 2011, →ISBN, page 319