أَدْكَنُ
Root: دكن
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أَدْكَنُ
A thing, [or a garment, ] or a horse, of a blackish colour; of a colour inclining to blackness: or of a colour inclining to that of dust; [or brown; i. e.] of a colour between redness and blackness: and a garment dirty and dust-coloured: fem. دَكْنَآءُ; applied also to a serpent: pl. دُكْنٌ, applied also to clouds. In the following verse, Lebeed applies it as meaning A wine-skin that has become in good condition in respect of its colour and odour by reason of its oldness; or a blackish, or black, wine-skin:
2 ثَرِيدَةٌ دَكْنَآءُ [A mess of crumbled bread moistened with broth] having a large quantity of seeds with which it is seasoned: [app. because of its colour: but SM says,] as though the said seeds were put one upon another on it.
i. e. I buy wine at a high price, together with every blackish, or black, old, wineskin, or wine-jar smeared with pitch, from which one has ladled out, the sealed clay upon its mouth having been broken.أُغْلِى السِّبَآءَ بِكُلِّ أَدْكَنَ عَاتِقٍ أَوْ جَوْنَةٍ قُدِحَتْ وَفُضَّ خِتَامُهَا
2 ثَرِيدَةٌ دَكْنَآءُ [A mess of crumbled bread moistened with broth] having a large quantity of seeds with which it is seasoned: [app. because of its colour: but SM says,] as though the said seeds were put one upon another on it.
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