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Arabic
Etymology
From Middle Persian (dstk' /dastag/, “bunch, bundle; handle”), via the Neo-Persian descendant of which دسته (daste) later also Arabic دَسْتَة (dasta) has been acquired.
Pronunciation
Noun
دَسْتَج • (dastaj) m (plural دَسَاتِج (dasātij)) (obsolete)
- (rare) fagot, bundle, bunch, truss
- Synonyms: حُزْمَة (ḥuzma), رِزْمَة (rizma)
a. 929, مروان بن جناح , edited by Gerrit Bos, Fabian Käs, كتاب التلخيص [On the Nomenclature of Medicinal Drugs], Leiden: Brill, published 2020, →DOI, →ISBN, 270 (fol. 26r,5–13), page 454:قَالَ ٱلخُبْزَرُزِّيُّ:
فَضِلْنِي بِدَسْتَجَةٍ عَذْبَةٍ – فَإِنِّي إِلَيْهَا مَشُوقٌ مَشُوقٌ
أَصِلْكَ بِدَسْتَجَةٍ مِثْلَهَا – مِنَ ٱلْحَلِّ تَعْلُو وَلِلْحَلِّ شُوقٌ- qāla l-ḵubzaruzziyyu:
faḍilnī bi-dastajatin ʕaḏbatin – faʔinnī ʔilay-hā mašūqun mašūqun
ʔaṣilka bi-dastajatin miṯlahā – mina l-ḥalli taʕlū wa-li-l-ḥalli šūqun - Al-Ḵubzaruzzīy said:
Distinguish me by a dulcet fagot … by reason that to it my yearn is roused!
I send you thereon an equal fagot … its unbox, like for many, puts you risen!
- (rare) handle, grip, helve
- Synonyms: نِصَاب (niṣāb), يَد (yad)
- pestle, mortar’s grip, beater
- Synonyms: مِدَقّ (midaqq), يَد (yad)
a. 1165, ابن التلميذ , edited by Oliver Kahl, The Dispensatory of Ibn At-Tilmīḏ الأقراباذين الكبير (Islamic Philosophy, Theology and Science. Texts and Studies; 70), Leiden: Brill, published 2007, →ISBN, page 139 Nr. 302:ويحرك بدستج الهاون نعما ويصفى في منخل ويرمى بالثفل ثم تعاود عليه التصفية […]- (now) stir it gently with a pestle, strain it into a sieve, and throw away the sediment (that has gathered upon it); then clear it again
c. 1200, يحيى بن محمد بن أحمد بن العوام [yaḥyā ibn muḥammad ibn ʔaḥmad ibn al-ʕawwām], edited by José Antonio Banqueri, كتاب الفلاحة [Book on Agriculture], volume 2, Madrid: Imprenta Real, published 1802IA, Cap. 28, Art. 13, page 316:له ساق طويل نحو شبر شكله شكل دستج الهاون لونه إلى الفرفرية وعليه ثمر لونه لون زعفران وله أصل متوسط القدر.- It has a leg as long as a hand’s span and is in form like a pestle, its colour nears purple, its fruits have the colour of saffron, its stem is of medium size.
Declension
Declension of noun دَسْتَج (dastaj)
References
- “دستج” in Almaany
- Dozy, Reinhart Pieter Anne (1881) “دستج”, in Supplément aux dictionnaires arabes (in French), volume 1, Leiden: E. J. Brill, page 441b
- Freytag, Georg (1833) “دستج”, 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 29a