مَرْدَقُوشٌ

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مَرْدَقُوشٌ [Marjoram; sweet marjoram; so called in the present day;] i. q. مَرْزَنْجُوشٌ [q. v.]: an arabicized word, [thought to be so by J,] from [the Persian] مُرْدَهْ كُوشْ, meaning “ having a dead ear, ” or “ having a soft ear, ” [which is given in the K as one of the significations of the arabicized word,] because what is flaccid is as though it were dead: or [so accord. to the S, TA; but accord. to the K, and] saffron: and a certain perfume which a woman puts upon her comb, inclining to redness and blackness. The vulgar [generally] say بَرْدَقُوش.

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