سوبيا

Identical to some dialect forms of سَبِّيدَج (sabbīdaj, “squid”) due to the drink’s white.

• IPA^(key): /suː.bi.jaː/
  • (Egyptian) IPA^(key): /sub.ja/

سُوبِيَا • (sūbiyā) f

1. a nonalcoholic drink of slightly fermented rice or barley, flour and bread
   • 1850, محمد بن عمر التونسي [Muḥammad Ibn-ʿUmar at-Tūnisī ], edited by Humphrey Davies, تشحيذ الأذهان بسيرة بلاد العرب والسودان [In Darfur. An Account of the Sultanate and Its People] (Library of Arabic Literature; 15), volume 2, New York: NYU Press, published 2018, →ISBN, 3.2.6, page 108:

     وَإِنْ حَضَرَهُمْ جَمَاعَةٌ مِنَ ٱلْفُقَهَاءِ أَتَوْهُمْ بِٱلْعَصَائِدِ وَٱللُّحُومِ وَبِٱلسُّوبِيَا

     waʔin ḥaḍarahum jamāʕatun mina l-fuqahāʔi ʔatawhum bi-l-ʕaṣāʔidi wal-luḥūmi wabis-sūbiyā

     If a group of men of religion arrives, they bring them different kinds of flour-and-butter paste and sūbiyā