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▪ »Fesikh […] is a traditional Egyptian fish dish consisting of fermented salted and dried gray mullet, of the mugil family, a saltwater fish that lives in both the Mediterranean and the Red Seas. Fesikh is eaten during the Sham el-Nessim [↗šamma, ↗nasīm ] festival, which is a spring celebration from ancient times in Egypt. – The traditional process of preparing Fesikh is to dry the fish in the sun before preserving it in salt. The process of is quite elaborate, passing from father to son in certain families. The occupation has a special name in Egypt, fasakhani [fasaḫānī ]. Egyptians in the West have used whitefish as an alternative. Each year food poisoning tales involving incorrectly prepared fesikh appear in Egyptian periodicals. […]«¹ – Usually eaten with eggs, onion and vegetables.²
▪ Properly, an item (fish) ‘whose colour has faded’ (during the process of fermentation), or that ‘has desintegrated, degenerated, fallen apart’?

1. en.wikipedia, 16Apr2014. 2. arz.wikipedia, 16Apr2014.

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See ↗FSḪ, ↗fasiḫa, ↗fasaḫa.

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► fassaḫa, vb. II, (Eg.) to salt (fish): denom. – For other meanings ↗fasaḫa.

For other items of √FṢḤ cf. ↗fasiḫa and ↗fasīḫ.

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