دَرَقَةٌ
Root: درق
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دَرَقَةٌ
i. q.
حَجَفَةٌ, or تُرْسٌ, [i. e. A shield,] made without wood and without sinews: or made of skins sewed one over another: (ISd and TA voce حَجَفَةٌ, q. v.:) pl.
دَرَقٌ , [or rather this is a coll. gen. n.,] and [the pl. is] أَدْرَاقٌ [a pl. of pauc.] and دِرَاقٌ; this last mentioned by IDrd, who says, they are made of the skins of beasts found in the country of the Abyssinians, [as are shields thus called in the present day: they are made of the skin of the hippopotamus, and of other pachydermatous animals; and sometimes of the skin of the crocodile; generally oval, with a large protuberance in the middle, behind which is the handle, and between a foot and a half and two feet in length.]
def.2 Also A خَوْخَة [here meaning sluice] in a rivulet: an arabicized word, from [the Persian] دَرِيچَهْ. This is what is meant by the saying of the lawyers, that the repairing of the درقة is incumbent on the owner of the rivulet.
def.2 Also A خَوْخَة [here meaning sluice] in a rivulet: an arabicized word, from [the Persian] دَرِيچَهْ. This is what is meant by the saying of the lawyers, that the repairing of the درقة is incumbent on the owner of the rivulet.
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