دَنٌّ
Root: دن
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دَنٌّ
A wine-jar: a [jar of the kind called] حُبّ: or [a jar] in form like a
حُبّ: or a large
رَاقُود [or earthen jar, smeared inside with pitch, long in the lower part], in form like the
حُبّ, but taller; (M; in the K, or taller than the
حُبّ;) uniform in make, [tapering to the bottom,] having at the lower end what resembles the
قَوْنَس [or tapering top] of a helmet: or smaller than the
حُبّ, having a pointed lower extremity, [so I render عُسْعُسٌ, regarding it as a dial. var., or perhaps a mistranscription, of عُصْعُصٌ, which properly signifies the “ os coccygis, ”] so that it will not sit [upright] without one's digging a hole for it: IDrd says that it is a genuine Arabic word: pl. [of mult.] دِنَانٌ [and دِنَنَةٌ and أَدْنُنٌ and أَدُنٌّ, as appears from the following saying of IAar, quoted by Az:] one says دَنٌّ and أَدْنُنٌ and أَدُنٌّ and دِنَانٌ and دِنَنَةٌ. [See an ex. in a verse of El-Aashà cited voce اِرْتِسَامٌ.]
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