أَرَنْدَجٌ
Root: ردج
Full Definition
[As though they were clad in trousers of ارندج]: accord. to A' Obeyd, originally Pers., arabicized, from رَنْدَهْ: one should not say رَنْدَجٌ: accord. to Lh, i. q. دَارِشٌ: or, he adds, as some say, a skin [or leather] different from that termed دارش: or i. q. زَاجٌ, with which one blackens. With respect to these words of a poet, describing a woman as ignorant, or inexperienced,كَأَنَّمَا سُرْوِلْنَ فِى الأَرْدَاجِ
[She knew not what is the weaving of يرندج before it], it is said that he imagined يرندج to be woven, or that he meant that this woman, by reason of her ignorance, or inexperience, imagined it to be so.لَمْ تَدْرِ مَا نَسْجُ قَبْلَهَا
2 [It is said, app. on the ground of an assertion mentioned above, that] يَرَنْدَجٌ also signifies A certain black dye; the black [or blacking] with which boots are blacked: or زَاجٌ [i. e. vitriol].
3 Az mentions ارندج and as quadriliteral-radical words.
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