درك

From the root د ر ك (d-r-k). Cognate with Hebrew דרך (dereḵ) and Aramaic דְּרַךְ (dəraḵ, “to tread”).

• IPA^(key): /da.rak/

دَرَك • (darak) m (plural أَدْرَاك (ʔadrāk))

1. gendarmerie
2. (obsolete) stairs, staircase going down

   Synonym: (going up or down) دَرَج (daraj)

3. path one takes to reach a goal
4. reaching of a goal
5. (obsolete) a piece rope attached to the side of a bigger rope

دَرْك • (dark) m (plural أَدْرَاك (ʔadrāk))

1. depth, (literal) rock-bottom

   Antonym: فِرْدَوْس (firdaws)

   • 609–632 CE, Qur'an, 4:145:

     إِنَّ ٱلْمُنَـٰفِقِينَ فِى ٱلدَّرْكِ ٱلْأَسْفَلِ مِنَ ٱلنَّارِ وَلَن تَجِدَ لَهُمْ نَصِيرًا

     Surely the hypocrites will be in the lowest depths of the Fire—and you will never find for them any helper.

دَرَّكَ • (darraka) II (non-past يُدَرِّكُ (yudarriku), verbal noun تَدْرِيك (tadrīk))

1. to last, to continue (of periodic rains)

• "درك" in Doha Institute Historical Dictionary of Arabic

درك • (direk)

1. Alternative form of دیرك (direk, “post, pillar”)

• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “درك”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎, Vienna, column 2059