دلدل - Wiktionary, the free dictionary
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| د ل د ل (d l d l) |
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Reduplicated from د ل و (d-l-w). Compare Hebrew דלדל.
دَلْدَلَ • (daldala) Iq (non-past يُدَلْدِلُ (yudaldilu), verbal noun دَلْدَلَة (daldala))
- (transitive) to make pendulate, to let dangle
- تَدَلْدَلَ (tadaldala, “to pendulate, to dangle”)
From دَلْدَلَ (daldala, “to let dangle”) as for the porcupine’s form of bearing its spines.
- دُلْدُول (duldūl)
دُلْدُل • (duldul) m (plural دَلَادِل (dalādil))
- crested porcupine (Hystrix cristata)
7th century CE, Sunan an-Nasāʾiyy, 26:33:
يَا أَهْلَ الْخِيَامِ هَذَا الدُّلْدُلُ هَذَا الَّذِي يَحْمِلُ أُسَرَاءَكُمْ مِنْ مَكَّةَ إِلَى الْمَدِينَةِ
- yā ʔahla l-ḵiyāmi haḏā d-duldulu haḏā llaḏī yaḥmilu ʔusarāʔakum min makkata ʔilā l-madīnati
- O people of the tents, this porcupine is the one who is taking your captives from Makka to Al-Madīna!
- Freytag, Georg (1833) “دلدل”, in Lexicon arabico-latinum praesertim ex Djeuharii Firuzabadiique et aliorum Arabum operibus adhibitis Golii quoque et aliorum libris confectum[1] (in Latin), volume 2, Halle: C. A. Schwetschke, page 48
- Nöldeke, Theodor (1904) Beiträge zur semitischen Sprachwissenschaft[2] (in German), Straßburg: Karl J. Trübner, pages 109–110
- Wehr, Hans with Kropfitsch, Lorenz (1985) “دلدل”, in Arabisches Wörterbuch für die Schriftsprache der Gegenwart[3] (in German), 5th edition, Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, published 2011, →ISBN, page 402