Classical Arabic - English Dictionary

by Edward William Lane (1801-1876)

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درأ دراقن درب


دُرَاقِنٌ

دُرَاقِنٌ and دُرَّاقِنٌ, (Ḳ, and the latter is mentioned in one of my copies of the Ṣ,) the latter is that which is in common use, (TA,) The peach; syn. خَوْخٌ: (AḤn, IDrd, Ḳ; and so in a copy of the Ṣ:) and the apricot; syn. مِشْمِشٌ; (Ḳ;) but this application of the words is not known: (TA:) of the Syrian dial.: (Ḳ, and so in a copy of the Ṣ:) IDrd says that the people of Syria call the former fruit دراقن, which is an arabicized Syrian word, or [rather] Greek, [originally δωράκιον,] and El-Jawáleeḳee also mentions it among arabicized words. (TA.)


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