دُولَابٌ
Root: دلب
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دُولَابٌ
, or دَوْلَابٌ, or each of these, of which the latter is the more chaste, an arabicized word, from the Persian [دُولْ آبْ dól-áb]; but some say it is Arabic; [A kind of water-wheel;] a machine that is turned by a horse or the like; a thing formed like the
نَاعُورَة, with which water is drawn, for irrigating land [&c.]: or, more correctly, the same as the
ناعورة; vulgarly called
سَاقِيَة: [it mainly consists of a vertical wheel, which raises the water in earthern pots, these being attached to cords, and forming a continuous series; a second vertical wheel, fixed to the same axis as the former, with cogs; and a large, horizontal, cogged wheel, which, being turned by a pair of bulls or cows or by a single beast, puts and keeps in motion the two other wheels and the pots:] pl. دَوَالِيبُ; for which دَوَالِى occurs in poetry: [or rather this (occurring at the end of a verse, and with the article ال,) is pl. of دَالِيَةٌ.]
2 It has also other meanings, not mentioned in the K. [Nor are they mentioned in the TA. Among other meanings used in the present day, are the following.
3 A machine: particularly any machine with a rotatory motion.
4 A cupboard.
5 And A machination; an artifice; a trick; or a fraud.]
2 It has also other meanings, not mentioned in the K. [Nor are they mentioned in the TA. Among other meanings used in the present day, are the following.
3 A machine: particularly any machine with a rotatory motion.
4 A cupboard.
5 And A machination; an artifice; a trick; or a fraud.]
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