Classical Arabic - English Dictionary

by Edward William Lane (1801-1876)

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1. ⇒ دلج

دَلَجَ, (Ṣ, L, Ḳ,) aor. ـُ {يَدْلُجُ} (Ṣ, L) and ـِ {يَدْلِجُ}, (L,) inf. n. دُلُوجٌ, He transferred the bucket from the mouth of the well to the watering-trough, to empty it therein: (Ṣ, Ḳ:) or he took the bucket, when it came forth, and went with it whithersoever he pleased. (TA.) One says also, هُوَ يَدْلُجُ بِالدَّلْوِ and يَدْجُلُ بِهَا: the latter verb being formed by transposition. (Fr, TA in art. دجل.)

Root: دلج - Entry: 1. Signification: A2

And He transferred the milk, when the camels had been milked, to the [large bowls called] جِفَان. (Ḳ.)

Root: دلج - Entry: 1. Signification: A3

4. ⇒ ادلج

ادلج, (inf. n. إِدْلَاجٌ, Mṣb, TA,) He journeyed from the beginning of the night: andاِدَّلَجَ↓ he journeyed from the latter part of the night: (Th, Ṣ, Ḳ:) or the former signifies he journeyed all the night: and the latter, he journeyed in the latter part of the night: (A, Mṣb, TA:) or the former, he journeyed in the night, at any hour from the beginning to the end thereof: (Th, from Aboo-Suleymán El-Aarábee:) or, accord. to El-Fárisee, both these verbs are syn., and each bears the first and second of the significations given above: IDrst contends against the assertions of those who make a difference between them, and affirms them to be syn., and to signify he journeyed in the night, at any time, in the beginning or middle or end thereof: therefore, he says, their signification is restricted, in several examples, by the context; and hence, he adds, the appellation مُدْلِجٌ given to a hedgehog: (TA:) [agreeably with this explanation,] ʼAlee says,

* اِصْبِرْ عَلَى السَّيْرِ وَالإِدْلَاجِ فِى السَّحَرِ *

[Endure thou with patience travelling, and journeying in the night, in the period a little before daybreak]. (MF.) [See another ex. voce أَصْبَحَ.]


8. ⇒ ادّلج

see 4, in three places.


دَلْجٌ

دَلْجٌ: see the next paragraph.


دَلَجٌ

دَلَجٌ: see the next paragraph.


دَلْجَةٌ

دَلْجَةٌ: see the next paragraph.


دُلْجَةٌ

دُلْجَةٌ andدَلْجَةٌ↓ andدَلَجٌ↓, (Ṣ, Ḳ,) all substs., (Ṣ,) A journeying from the beginning of the night: (Ṣ, Ḳ:) and the first and second a journeying from the latter part of the night: (Ṣ:) or thus the first: (A:) and the second, (ISd, A,) or the first and second, (TA,) a journeying all the night: (ISd, A, TA:) and the second, also, a journeying a little before daybreak: (ISd, TA:) or the first and second (TA) and third (IDrst, TA) a journeying in the night; and this seems to be the meaning intended in the trad., عَلَيْكُمْ بِالدُّلْجَةِ فَإِنَّ الأَرْضَ تُطْوَى بِاللَّيْلِ [Keep ye to journeying in the night, for the earth is to be traversed by night]: (TA:) [andدَلِيجٌ↓ occurs in the L in the sense of دُلْجَةٌ, &c.:] the pl. of the first is دُلَجٌ. (Ḥam p. 521.) One says also, الدُّلْجَةَ قَبْلَ البُلْجَةِ [Keep to the journeying in the night,, &c., before the breaking of the dawn]. (A.) [See another ex. voce بُلْجَةٌ.]

Root: دلج - Entry: دُلْجَةٌ Signification: A2

Also, the same three words, andدَلْجٌ↓ andدَلَجَةٌ↓, An hour, or a time, or a short portion, (سَاعَةٌ,) of the latter part of the night: (ISd, TA:) or دَلَجٌ signifies the whole of the night, from the beginning to the end. (Th, from Aboo-Suleymán El-Aarábee.)


دَلَجَةٌ


دَلِيجٌ


دَالِجٌ

دَالِجٌ One who takes the bucket and goes with it from the mouth of the well to the wateringtrough, to empty it therein. (Ṣ, Ḳ.)

Root: دلج - Entry: دَالِجٌ Signification: A2

And One who transfers the milk, when the camels have been milked, to the [large bowls called] جِفَان. (Ḳ.)


دَوْلَجٌ

دَوْلَجٌ (Ṣ, Ḳ) andمَدْلَجَةٌ↓ (Ḳ) A wild animal's, (Ṣ, Ḳ,) or gazelle's, (TA,) covert, or hidingplace, among trees: (Ṣ, Ḳ, TA:) the former word like تَوْلَجٌ: (Ṣ:) the د in دولج is held by Sb to be a substitute for ت, and the ت is a substitute for و. (TA.)

Root: دلج - Entry: دَوْلَجٌ Signification: A2

Also, the former, A hole, or den, of a wild animal; or a subterranean excavation or habitation; syn. سَرَبٌ. (Ṣ, Ḳ.)

Root: دلج - Entry: دَوْلَجٌ Signification: A3

And A closet; a small chamber within a large chamber. (TA.)


مَدْلَجٌ

مَدْلَجٌ andمَدْلَجَةٌ↓ The space between the well and the watering-trough. (Ṣ, A, Ḳ.)


المُدْلِجُ

المُدْلِجُ (Ḳ) and أَبُو المُدْلِچ (A, Ḳ) The hedgehog; syn. القُنْفُذُ: (A, Ḳ:) so called because he goes about all the night: (TA:) or not because he does so in the first part of the night, or in the middle, or in the latter part, or during the whole of it; but because he appears at night at any time when he wants herbage or water, &c. (IDrst, TA.)


مَدْلَجَةٌ

مَدْلَجَةٌ: see مَدْلَجٌ:

Root: دلج - Entry: مَدْلَجَةٌ Dissociation: B

مِدْلَجَةٌ

مِدْلَجَةٌ A large milking-vessel in which milk is transferred [to the جِفَان, or large bowls: see 1]. (Ḳ.)


مِدْلَاجٌ

سَحَابَةٌ مِدْلَاجٌ [A cloud that comes in the latter part of the night]. (A voce بَكُورٌ, q. v.)


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