עֲדָשָׁה f. (b. h. ) 1) lentil. Neg. VI, 6, v. מוּבָאת. Kel. XVII, 8 כע׳ שאמרו וכ׳ wherever lentil is spoken of as a standard size, it means … the Egyptian lentil. Gen. R. s. 63 (ref. to Gen. XXV, 34); B. Bath. 16ᵇ עדש Ms. M., v. גַּלְגַּל h.; a. fr.—Pl. עֲדָשִׁים, עֲדָשִׁין, עֲדָשׁוֹת. Neg. VI, 1 תשע ע׳ space of nine lentils. B. Kam. 60ᵇ. Maasr. V, 8 הע׳ המצריות Egyptian lentils; Tosef. ib. III, 14 אלו הן ע׳ המצריים וכ׳; Y. ib. V, end, 52ᵃ, v. גַּלְגָּל h.; a. fr. —2) (cmp. φακός) a flattish warming vessel. Tosef. Sabb. III (IV), 7; Gen. R. s. 80 ‘Rashi’ (ed. עריבה). —3) (v. טְלוֹפְחָא) a trough in the wine or oil press. Y. Ab. Zar. V, end, 45ᵇ.—Pl. as ab. Bab. Ab. Zar. 75ᵃ; Tosef. ib. VIII (IX), 3; Tosef. Toh. XI, 16. —4) dish of the steel-yard, scales. Tosef. Kel. B. Mets. III, 13 בע׳ אחר המסמר in the levitical law concerning (wooden) scales, the material of the nails (with which they are studded) decides; Sabb. 60ᵃ בע׳ הלך אחר שלשלותיו Ms. M. a. O. (ed. בערסא; Rashi ed. Sonc. בעדשא, v. Rabb. D. S. a. l. note) the material of the chains decides. Tosef. Erub. XI (VIII), 21; Y. ib. X, 26ᵈ top אין ממלין בע׳ וכ׳ you must not draw water, on the Sabbath, by means of an ‘ădasha (using it as a lever).