مدق

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Arabic

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Etymology

Root
د ق ق (d q q)
9 terms

Tool noun from دَقَّ (daqqa).

Pronunciation

Noun

مِدَقّ (midaqqm (plural مَداقّ (madāqq) or مِدَقَّات (midaqqāt))

  1. an implement to pound or beat things with it or upon it
    1. beetle, batlet
      Synonyms: وَبِيل (wabīl), مِيجَم (mījam), مِكْبَس (mikbas), بَيْزَر (bayzar), بَيْذَر (bayḏar), بَيْزَارَة (bayzāra), كُذِين (kuḏīn), مِكْمَدَة (mikmada)
    2. pestle
      Synonyms: يَد (yad), دَسْتَج (dastaj)
      1. (botany) the pistil or gynoecium of a flower
        Synonyms: مَتَاع (matāʕ), وَزِيم (wazīm)
    3. (Yemen, Najrān) larger mortar, an ancient spot in mountainous terrain for crushing
      • 2019 November 29, مشعل بن عبد الله, “مَدَقّات الجدود تحاصر الأخدود!! (with motion pictures)”, in Rattibha:
      Synonyms: مِهْرَاس (mihrās), جُرْن (jurn), هَاوُن (hāwun)
    4. clapper, clanger, tongue of a bell or a bell itself
      Synonym: نَاقُوس (nāqūs)
    5. hammer or hew (especially one considered to crush stone)
      Synonyms: مِطْرَقَة (miṭraqa), شَاكُوش (šākūš), مِلْطَس (milṭas)
  2. various a kind of construction and military vehicle:
    1. pile driver (from the image of a hammer)
      Synonym: مَاكِنَة دَقّ الرَكَائِز (mākina(t) daqq ar-rakāʔiz)
    2. battering ram
  3. (Egypt) trail, path, groove, track
    • 2017 May 12, محمد حيزة, “بالصور.. مصيف جمصة يستعد لاستقبال المصطافين (with pics, that with an excavator)”, in Yawm 7:
      عمل مدقات لذوى الاحتياجات الخاصة
      Road work for those with particular needs

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Further reading

  • Dozy, Reinhart Pieter Anne (1881) “مدق”, in Supplément aux dictionnaires arabes (in French), volume 1, Leiden: E. J. Brill, page 451b
  • Landberg, Carlo, editor (1920), Glossaire daṯînois (in French), Leiden: Brill, page 819
  • Lane, Edward William (1863) “مدق”, in Arabic-English Lexicon, London: Williams & Norgate, pages 897a–b
  • Piamenta, Moshe (1991) Dictionary of Post-Classical Yemeni Arabic, Leiden: Brill, →ISBN, page 153b
  • Schönig, Hanne (2002) Schminken, Düfte und Räucherwerk der Jemenitinnen: Lexikon der Substanzen, Utensilien und Techniken (Beiruter Texte und Studien; 91)‎, Würzburg: Ergon-Verlag, →ISBN, page 173