← Back to Taj al-Arus

سكبج

Root entry · 3 derived lemmas

This root primarily concerns a specific Persian dish made of meat cooked with vinegar. It also extends to the act of preparing this dish and a medicinal substance derived from a Persian tree.

Derived headwords

السَّكْبَاجnoun
  1. 1.
    Meat dish with vinegarclassical

    A Persian dish consisting of meat cooked with vinegar. This is considered the most accurate etymological explanation.

سَكْبَجَverb
  1. 1.
    To prepare skubajclassical

    To prepare or make the dish known as skubaj.

السَّكْبِينجnoun
  1. 1.
    Medicinal gumclassical

    A medicinal substance, identified in medical texts as a gum from a tree found in Persia.

Parallel reading

وهو لحم يطبخ بخل
It is meat cooked with vinegar.
هاذا أحسن ما يقال
This is the best that can be said.
وما نقله شيخنا عن ابن القطاع فهو مخالق لقواعدهم
And what our sheikh transmitted from Ibn al-Qatta' is contrary to their rules.
ويقال: سكبج الرجل: إذا أعد سكباجا
And it is said: 'A man skubaj-ed' meaning he prepared skubaj.
والذي في كتب الطب أنه صمغ شجرة بفارس
And what is in the medical books is that it is the gum of a tree in Persia.