مِدْرًى
Root: درى
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مِدْرًى
and
مِدْرَاةٌ and
مَدْرِيَةٌ , the last with fet-h to the م and with kesr to the ر, (TA, [in the CK, erroneously, مِدْرِيَة,]) An iron instrument with which the head is scratched, called [in Pers.] سَرْ خَارَهْ; a thing like a large needle, with which the female hair-dresser adjusts, or puts in order, the locks of a woman's hair; a thing with which the head is scratched: or a wooden instrument which a woman puts into her hair: (TA voce مِشْقَأَةٌ, in explanation of the second:) and, as being likened to the iron instrument thus called, a horn of a [wild] bull [and of a gazelle], with which the female hairdresser sometimes adjusts, or puts in order, the locks of a woman's hair, or with which one scratches his head: and, accord. to some copies of the K, a comb: the pl. is مَدَارٍ and مَدَارَى, in the latter of which, the alif [written ى] is a substitute for ى [properly so called]. [Hence,] جَأْبٌ المِدْرَى, or جَابُ المدرى (accord. to different copies of
def.2 [See also مِرْدًى (in art. ردى), last sentence.]
def.2 [See also مِرْدًى (in art. ردى), last sentence.]
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