دَالِيَةٌ

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دَالِيَةٌ A [water-wheel, or machine for irrigating land, such as is called] مَنْجَنُون, that is turned by an ox or a cow: and [such as is called] a نَاعُورَة: or the ناعورة is turned by water: and a thing made of palm-leaves and pieces of wood, with which water is drawn [for irrigating land] by means of ropes, or cords, [app. held and drawn at one end by a man, and at the other end] tied to a tall palm-trunk: it is a bucket (دَلْو), and the like, with pieces of wood made in the form of a cross, [i. e. with two pieces of wood placed across and so tied together,] the two arms of which are bound to the top [or rim] of the bucket; them one end of a rope is tied to it, and the other end to a palm-trunk standing at the head of the well; and one irrigates [land] with it [app. by drawing and swinging it up by means of another, or of the same, rope]: the word is of the measure فَاعِلَةٌ in the sense of the measure مَفْعُولَةٌ [because it is pulled up]: the pl. is دَوَالٍ: El-Fárábee deviates from others, by explaining it as meaning a مَنْجَنُون; and J follows him: [a similar apparatus for irrigating land is used in the northern parts of Egypt, called قَطْوَة and : it consists of a bowl-shaped bucket, with four cords attached to its rim: two men, each holding two of the cords, throw up the water by means of it into a trough or trench: accord. to Mtr,] the دَالِيَة is a tall palm-trunk set in the manner of the machine with which rice is beaten [to remove the husks], having at its head a large bowl, with which water is drawn [for irrigating land].
2 Also Land that is irrigated by means of the دَلْو [or bucket] or the [machine called] مَنْجَنُون [mentioned above].
3 And the pl., دَوَالٍ, Unripe dates hung, and eaten when they become ripe. Hung fruit. (Bd in liii. 8. [But perhaps الثمر is there a mistranscription for التّمْرُ.])
4 Also Black grapes, but not intensely black, the bunches of which are the largest of all bunches, appearing like goats hung [upon the vines]: the berries thereof are coarse, breaking in the mouth, and round; and are dried. [See also دَوَالِىُّ, in art. دوال.)
5 [The sing. also signifies A grape-vine itself: and a shoot of a grape-vine: pl. as above.]

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