دبس

دِبْسٌ دبس (S, M, A, Mgh, Msb, K) and ↓ دُبْسٌ (M) and ↓ دِبِسٌ (K) The expressed juice of fresh ripe dates; (A, Mgh, Msb;) what flows from fresh ripe dates; (S;) the honey of dates; [i. e. the sweet, thick, or inspissated, juice thereof; ] (M, K;) the expressed juice of dates, (M,) or of fresh ripe dates not cooked: (AHn, M:) what is called صَقْرٌ in the dial. of the people of ElMedeeneh: said by some to be the honey of fresh ripe dates: by some, what flows, or exudes, from raisins and from fresh grapes: and by some, what flows from the baskets of dates: (TA:) [see also رُبٌّ, in an explanation of which the inspissated juice of any fruit is termed its دِبْس:] also the honey of bees, عَسَلُ النَّحْلُ: so in the copies of the K and in [some of the copies of] the A; a signification not known; but [AHn] EdDeenawaree mentions the word دَبَاسَاتٌ, and explains it as signifying “ domestic bee-hives; ” and by this it is seen that the application of دبس to what bees eject may be correct: or the true reading may be عَسَلُ النَّخْلِ, with خ, as in some copies of the A; and it may be meant as explaining what precedes, meaning the expressed juice of the fruit of the palm-tree, by a kind of trope; though, as such, a useless repetition: but it is said in the O, on the authority of IDrd, that bees' honey is called ↓ دِبِسٌ: (TA:) the vulgar apply the word to [the inspissated juice of fresh ripe grapes, which resembles thick honey: and sometimes to] the honey of raisins. (MF.) -A2- See also دَبْسٌ.