مِدْرَعَةٌ
Root: درع
Full Definition
مِدْرَعَةٌ
A certain garment, [a tunic,] like that called
دُرَّاعَةٌ , never of anything but wool, [and having sleeves; for] mention is made, in a trad., of a مدرعة narrow in the sleeve; wherefore the wearer, in performing the ablution termed وُضُوْء, put forth his arm from beneath the مدرعة, and so performed that ablution: accord. to some, the
is a [garment of the kind called] جُبَّة, slit in the fore part; [thus resembling a kind of جُبَّة worn by persons in Northern Africa, reaching to, or below, the knees, and having the two front edges sewed together from the bottom, or nearly so, to about the middle of the breast: it is said in the MA to be a wide vest or shirt; a large
جُبَّة: and the مِدْرَعَة is there said to be a woollen
دُرَّاعَة; a woollen tunic: El-Makreezee describes the
as a garment worn in Egypt particularly by Wezeers, slit in the fore part to near the head of the heart, with buttons and loops: Golius describes it as “ tunica gossipina, fere grossior; ” adding, “ estque exterior tum virilis tum muliebris; ” as on the authority of J, who says nothing of the kind, and of the Loghat Neamet-Allah: and as epomis, seu amiculum quod humeris injicitur; on the authority of Ibn-Maaroof: J only says,] the
and مِدْرَعَة are one; and
دُرَّاعَةٌ is sing. of, or signifies one of what are called, دَرَارِيعُ: the pl. of مدرعة is مَدَارِعُ.
def.2 Also The [appendage called] صُفَّة [q. v.] of a رَحْل [or camel's saddle], when the heads of the وَاسِطَة [or fore part (Az says the وَسَط, accord. to the TA,)] and the آخِرَة [or hinder part] appear from [above] it.
def.2 Also The [appendage called] صُفَّة [q. v.] of a رَحْل [or camel's saddle], when the heads of the وَاسِطَة [or fore part (Az says the وَسَط, accord. to the TA,)] and the آخِرَة [or hinder part] appear from [above] it.
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