ديباج

From Middle Persian (dypʾk' /⁠dēbāg⁠/, “brocade”). See Classical Persian دیبا (dēbā) for more.

• IPA^(key): /diː.baːd͡ʒ/

دِيبَاج • (dībāj) m (collective, singulative دِيبَاجَة f (dībāja), plural دَبَابِيج (dabābīj))

1. silk brocade
   • 7th century CE, Ṣaḥīḥ al-Buḵāriyy, 78:246:

     وَنَهَانَا عَنْ سَبْعٍ، عَنْ خَاتَمِ الذَّهَبِ ـ أَوْ قَالَ حَلْقَةِ الذَّهَبِ ـ وَعَنْ لُبْسِ الْحَرِيرِ، وَٱلدِّيبَاجِ، وَٱلسُّنْدُسِ، وَٱلْمَيَاثِرِ.

     wanahānā ʕan sabʕin, ʕan ḵātami ḏ-ḏahabi - ʔaw qāla ḥalqati ḏ-ḏahabi - waʕan lubsi l-ḥarīri, wad-dībāji, was-sundusi, wal-mayāṯiri.

     And he forbade us seven things: to wear golden signets – or golden rings –, to wear silk, silk brocade, fine silk or silk saddle-pillows.

2. (figurative) spruce decoration, brilliant fashion, beauty

• دَبَّجَ (dabbaja, “to adorn, to embellish; to express in a splendid manner”, verb)
• تَدَبَّجَ (tadabbaja, “to adorn oneself well”, verb)
• دَبَّاج m (dabbāj, “trader of silk brocades”, noun)
• دِيبَاجِيّ m (dībājiyy, “trader of silk brocades”, noun)

• Dozy, Reinhart Pieter Anne (1881) “ديباج”, in Supplément aux dictionnaires arabes‎ (in French), volume 1, Leiden: E. J. Brill, page 421
• Freytag, Georg (1833) “ديباج”, in Lexicon arabico-latinum praesertim ex Djeuharii Firuzabadiique et aliorum Arabum operibus adhibitis Golii quoque et aliorum libris confectum‎ (in Latin), volume 2, Halle: C. A. Schwetschke, page 3
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• Lane, Edward William (1863) “ديباج”, in Arabic-English Lexicon‎, London: Williams & Norgate, page 843
• Steingass, Francis Joseph (1884) “ديباج”, in The Student's Arabic–English Dictionary‎, London: W.H. Allen, page 352
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• Wahrmund, Adolf (1887) “ديباج”, in Handwörterbuch der neu-arabischen und deutschen Sprache‎ (in German), volume 1, Gießen: J. Ricker’sche Buchhandlung, page 644
• Wahrmund, Adolf (1887) “ديباج”, in Handwörterbuch der neu-arabischen und deutschen Sprache‎ (in German), volume 1, Gießen: J. Ricker’sche Buchhandlung, page 696
• Wehr, Hans with Kropfitsch, Lorenz (1985) “ديباج”, in Arabisches Wörterbuch für die Schriftsprache der Gegenwart‎ (in German), 5th edition, Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, published 2011, →ISBN, page 375