دِرْعٌ
Root: درع
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دِرْعٌ
A coat of mail; syn. زَرَدِّيَةٌ: [or a coat of defence of any kind; being a term applied in the S and K &c. to a يَلَبَة, i. e. a coat of defence of skins, or of camel's hide:] and also, of plate-armour: (AO, in his book on the دِرْع and بَيْضَة, cited in the TA voce مِغْفَرٌ:) [but the first is the most general, and proper, meaning:] as meaning a دِرْع of iron, it is fem.; or mostly so; but sometimes masc.: AO says that it is masc. and fem.; and so Lh: pl. أَدْرُعٌ and أَدْرَاعٌ and دُرُوعٌ; the first and second, pls. of pauc.; the third, a pl. of mult. The dim. is
دُرَيْعٌ , which is anomalous, for by rule it should be with ة; or this may be [a regular form] of the dial. of those who make the word masc.; and some say
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2 Also A woman's قَمِيص [or shift]; a garment, or piece of cloth, in the middle of which a woman cuts an opening for the head to be put through, and to which she puts arms [or sleeves], and the two openings of which [at the two sides] she sews up: or a woman's garment which is worn above the قَمِيص: or, accord. to El-Hulwánee, one of which the opening for the head to pass through extends towards, or to, the bosom; whereas the قميص is one of which the slit is towards, or to, the shoulder-joint; but this [says Mtr] I find not in the lexicons: a small garment which a young girl wears in her house, or chamber, or tent: as meaning a woman's دِرْع, it is masc., only; or sometimes fem.: pl. أَدْرَاعٌ. [See a verse cited voce مِجْوَلٌ.]
2 Also A woman's قَمِيص [or shift]; a garment, or piece of cloth, in the middle of which a woman cuts an opening for the head to be put through, and to which she puts arms [or sleeves], and the two openings of which [at the two sides] she sews up: or a woman's garment which is worn above the قَمِيص: or, accord. to El-Hulwánee, one of which the opening for the head to pass through extends towards, or to, the bosom; whereas the قميص is one of which the slit is towards, or to, the shoulder-joint; but this [says Mtr] I find not in the lexicons: a small garment which a young girl wears in her house, or chamber, or tent: as meaning a woman's دِرْع, it is masc., only; or sometimes fem.: pl. أَدْرَاعٌ. [See a verse cited voce مِجْوَلٌ.]
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