دُرَاقِنٌ
Root: دراقن
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دُرَاقِنٌ
and دُرَّاقِنٌ, the latter is that which is in common use, The peach; syn. خَوْخٌ: and the apricot; syn. مِشْمِشٌ; but this application of the words is not known: of the Syrian dial.: IDrd says that the people of Syria call the former fruit دراقن, which is an arabicized Syrian word, or [rather] Greek, [originally
δωράκιον ,] and El-Jawáleekee also mentions it among arabicized words.
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