دُكَّانٌ

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دُكَّانٌ A shop; [generally a small chamber, with an open front, along which extends a wide bench of stone or brick;] syn. حَانُوتٌ: and a دِكَّة [or kind of wide bench, of stone or brick &c., generally built against a wall], upon which one sits, [i. e.] constructed for the purpose of sitting upon it: and the like of which is built against a leaning palm-tree, to support it: if used as syn. with حَانُوتٌ, it is masc. and fem.: En-Näwawee affirms it to be masc.: accord. to some, a Persian word, [originally دُكَانْ,] arabicized; and if so, the ن is a radical letter: IKtt and several others say that the ن is a radical, and that the word is derived from the verb first mentioned above: but Es-Sarakustee says that the ن is augmentative accord. to Sb, and in like manner says Akh; and that the word is from the phrase أَكَمَةٌ دكَّآءُ meaning “ an expanded hill: ” the pl. is دَكَاكِينُ.

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