دَارٌ

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دَارٌ , [originally دَوَرٌ, as will be seen below, A house; a mansion; and especially a house of a large size, comprising a court; or a house comprising several sets of apartments and a court; (see بَيْتٌ;)] a place of abode which comprises a building, or buildings, and a court, or space in which is no building: as also دَارَةٌ : or the latter is a more special term; meaning any particular house; the former being a generic term: accord. to IJ, it is from دَارَ, Present.T يَدُورُ; because of the many movements of the people in it: it is of the fem. gender: and sometimes masc.; as in the Kur xvi. 32, as meaning مَثْوَى, or مَوْضِع, or as being a gen. n.: pl. أَدْؤُرٌ and أَدْوُرٌ and آدُرٌ, formed by transposition, [for أَوْدُرٌ,] and أَدْوَارٌ and أَدْيَارٌ and أَدْوِرَةٌ, and دِيَارٌ, like as جِبَالٌ is pl. of جَبَلٌ, and دِوَارٌ and دِيَارَةٌ and دُورٌ, like as أُسْدٌ is pl. of أَسَدٌ, and دِيرَانٌ and دُورَانٌ and دِيَرٌ and دِيَرَةٌ, and [quasi-pl. n.] دَارَةٌ , and [pl. pl.] دِيَارَاتٌ [pl. of دِيَارٌ] and دُورَاتٌ [pl. of دُورٌ], and [pl. of دَارَةٌ] دَارَاتٌ. The dim. is دُوَيْرَةٌ . [Hence, دَارُ الضَرْبِ The mint: &c.]
2 Also Any place in which a people have alighted and taken up their abode; an abode; a dwelling. Hence the present world is called دَارُ الفَنَآءِ [The abode of perishableness; or the perishable abode]: and the world to come, دَارُ البَقَآءِ [The abode of everlastingness; or the everlasting abode]; and دَارُ القَرَارِ [The abode of stability; or the stable abode]; and دَارُ السَّلَامِ [The abode of peace, or of freedom evil]. [And hence, دَارُ الحَرْبِ: see حَرْبٌ.] [Hence, also,] دَارٌ is applied to A burial-ground.
3 [And hence,] اِسْتَأْذِنْ عَلَى رَبِّى فِى دَارِهِ [Ask thou permission for me to go in to my Lord] in his Paradise.
4 And سَأُرِيكُمْ دَارَ الفَاسِقِينَ, in the Kur [vii. 142, I will show you the abode of the transgressors], meaning Egypt: or, accord. to Mujáhid, the abode to which the transgressors shall go in the world to come.
5 [Hence, also,] دَارٌ signifies i. q. بَلَدٌ [A country, or district: or a city, town, or village].
6 And, with the art. ال, [El-Medeeneh;] the City of the Prophet.
7 And hence, دَارٌ also signifies A tribe; syn. قَبِيلَةٌ: for أَهْلُ دَارٍ: as also ↓دَارَةٌ: pl. of the former, دُورٌ. You say, مَرَّتْ بِنَا دَارُ بَنِى فُلَانٍ The tribe of the sons of such a one passed by us. And in the same sense دار is used in a trad. in which it is said that there remained no دار among which (فِيهَا) a mosque had not been built.

def.2 Mtr states that it is said to signify also A year; syn. حَوْلٌ; and if this be correct, which he does no hold to be the case, it is from الدَّوَرَانُ, like as حَوْلٌ is from الحَوَلَانُ: or, as some say, i. q. دَهْرٌ [as meaning a long time, or the like].

def.3 And الدَّارُ is the name of A certain idol.

def.4 [دار and دير explained by Freytag as meaning “ Medulla liquida in ossibus ” are mistakes for رَارٌ and رَيْرٌ.]

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