دَلِيكٌ
Root: دلك
Full Definition
2 A certain food, prepared of butter and dates, [app. kneaded, or mashed, together,] like ثَرِيد [q. v.]: I think [says J] that it is what is called in Persian چَنْكَال خُسْت [or چَنْگَال خِشْت?]: accord. to Z, تَمْرٌ دَلِيكٌ signifies مَرِيس [i. e. dates macerated, and mashed with the hand, or moistened, and rubbed and pressed with the fingers till soft, in water or in milk]. [See also دَلِيكَةٌ.]
def.2
def.3 A certain plant: n. un. with ة.
2 And The [hip, or] fruit of the [wild] red rose, that comes after it, [i. e. after the flower,] becoming red, like wheat, and ripening, and becoming sweet, like the fresh ripe date; called in Syria صُرْمُ الدِّيْكِ: n. un. with ة: or [the fruit of] the mountainrose الوَرْد الجَبَلِىّ [a name now given to the wild rose, or sweet brier], like wheat بُرّ [in the CK بُسْر]) in size and redness, and like the fresh ripe date in sweetness: in El-Yemen it is sent from one to another as a present: Az says, so I have heard from an Arab of the desert, of the people of El-Yemen; and it grows with us [app. meaning in El-'Irák] so as to form thickets.
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