אפתא II

אַפְתָּאII f. (פתי) extension, width, whence 1) (archit.) a chamber or wing projecting from a building (with stairs from outside), balcony-chamber. B. Bath.61a (explain. יציע). Ḥull.92a ב״כ דתותי א׳ a synagogue named. ‘under the balcony. 2) (bot.) stole, tuber. Lam. R. to I, 16, end כהדא א׳ דקראוכ׳ like that tuber of cabbage, the larger the latter grows, the smaller gets the former. 3) pl. אַפְתֵּי, only with רַמְשָׁא, spreading of night, nightfall. Y.Ab. Zar. I, beg. 39a. Y.Bath. II, end, 13c. Lev. R. s. 25; Koh. R. to II, 20.בפתי רמשא = בא׳ר׳. Y. Ab. Zar. l. c.; Gen. R. s. 78.