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دِبِّيجٌ

Root: دبج

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دِبِّيجٌ , or فِى الدَّارِ, There is not in the house any one: دِبِّيجٌ is not used otherwise than in a negative phrase: IJ derives it from دِيبَاجٌ; because men adorn the earth: [Z says,] it is from دَبَجَ, like سِكِّيتٌ from سَكَتَ; because men adorn houses: Abu-l-'Abbás says that دِبِّيحٌ is more chaste than دِبِّيجٌ: [ISk says, or J, for the passage is ambiguous,] A'Obeyd doubted respecting the ج and the ح; and I asked respecting this word, in the desert, a company of the Arabs thereof, and they said, مَا فِى الدَّارِ دِبِّىٌّ, and nothing more; but I have found in the handwriting of Aboo-Moosà El- Hámid, ما فى الدار دِبِّيجٌ, with ج, on the authority of Th: AM says that the ج in دِبِّيٌج is substituted for the [latter] ى in دِبِّىٌّ, in like manner as they say مُرِّىٌّ and مُرِّجٌّ &c.
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