Note 470 — THE FELLAH AND HIS WICKED WIFE.[467]
Richard Francis Burton translation · Edition 2
Arab. “Dashísh,” which the Dicts. make = wheat-broth to be sipped. [“Dashísh” is a popular corruption of the classical “Jashísh” = coarsely ground wheat (sometimes beans), also called “Sawík,” and “Dashíshah” is the broth made of it.—St.]