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حَدِيقَةٌ

Root: حدق

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حَدِيقَةٌ A walled garden; a garden surrounded by a wall: of the measure فَعِيلَةٌ in the sense of the measure مَفْعُولَةٌ: or any round piece of land surrounded by a fence or the like, or by elevated land: or whatever is surrounded by building: and, by extension of its application, a garden, though without a wall: or a meadow, or garden, (رَوْضَة,) having trees: or a garden of palm-trees and of other trees, dense and luxuriant, and, as some say, fruit-bearing: or a garden (جَنَّة) of palmtrees and grape-vines: or a distinct collection of palm-trees: or a plot of seedproduce: or a hollow in a valley, that retains water: and any depressed place in a valley, that retains water, thought water be not in its bottom: pl. حَدَائِقُ. Hence the saying, وَ رَدَ عَلَىَّ كِتَابُكَ فَتَنَزَّهْتُ فِى بَهْجَةِ حَدَائِقِهِ [Thy letter has come to me, and I have recreated myself in contemplating the beauty of its garden-like phrases].
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