دَوْكَةٌ
Root: دوك
Full Definition
دَوْكَةٌ
and
دُوكَةٌ
Evil, or mischief; and contention, or altercation; and a confused state of affairs: pl. of the former دِوَكٌ and دِيَكٌ, and of the latter دُوَكٌ. One says, وَقَعُوافِى دَوْكَةٍ and
[They fell into evil, &c.]. And Ru-beh says,
[And seldom, or often, I escaped from those evils, &c.]فَرُبَّمَا نَجَيْتُ مِنْ تِلْكَ