دِهْلِيزٌ

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دِهْلِيزٌ [An entrance-passage of a house; an entrance-hall; a vestibule;] what is between the [outer] door or gate and the house; the place of entrance to a house: a Persian word, originally داليج, and داليز, and دالان, and, as some say, دَلِيجٌ, arabicized: [also, in modern Arabic, an ante- chamber: and the anterior apartment of a large tent or pavilion: accord. to the MA, a large tent: accord. to some copies of the K, i. q. جَيْئَةٌ: accord. to some, خَنِيَّةٌ, which reading is preferred by the author of the TK, who explains دهليز, from the “Burhán,” as meaning “absurd words:” accord. to some, حَنِيَّةٌ, which I think the right reading, meaning a bowed, or curved, structure: Golius seems to have found another reading in the K, namely, حَيَّةٌ:] pl. دَهَالِيزُ.
2 [Hence,] أَبْنَآءُ الدَّهَالِيزِ Foundlings, whose fathers are unknown. [They are so called because they are generally abandoned at the entrances of mosques or private houses, whence they are usually taken by persons who adopt them.]

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