…asida, the Bedouin national dish…an utterly simple meal, but with what keen appetite one attacks it!
-The Lost Oases, Ahmed Mohammed Hassanein, 1925
Lane has the Form I verb of the root ‘-S-D to mean, He Made ‘sīda [Asīda], but also gives, He [a Camel] Bent his Neck towards his Withers in Dying, or simply, He Died. So when the boy cook Ibrahim called out to the drovers, Ta’āla Kul Asīda, Come Eat Asīda, there was good reason perhaps they did not all rush to the common bowl.