درر

دَرَّ

To flow or become copious, especially of milk; by extension, to flow abundantly of tears, sweat, water, and similar fluids.

The basic verb is used of fluids and of their becoming plentiful or streaming.

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دَرَّ

To be consecutive or continue.

A derived extension describing an event or thing as continuing without interruption.

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دَرَّ

To run vehemently, or to run easily and without interruption.

Used of a horse or similar riding animal.

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دَرَّ

To become tangled or luxuriant through abundance.

Used of herbage.

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دَرَّ

To yield or emit milk copiously.

Used of a she-camel, ewe, she-goat, or udder in a milk-yielding construction.

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دَرَّ

To pour in abundantly, especially of tribute or tax revenue.

A metaphorical extension of abundant milk-flow to revenue collected for a community.

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دَرَّ

To pour down rain abundantly.

Used of the sky in a rain-pouring construction.

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دَرَّ

To produce or give forth what one has; to be bountiful, or to become commercially productive.

Used of a person's resources, the world as bountiful, or a market whose goods sell briskly.

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دَرَّ

Of ducts or veins, to become filled with milk or blood; of a vein, to pulsate continuously.

The bodily-fluid and pulsation uses are conventional extensions of flowing and continuous movement.

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دَرَّ

Of an arrow, to turn smoothly and audibly on the nail of the thumb when tested for hardness, straightness, and compactness.

A technical archery expression describing the testing motion of an arrow.

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دَرَّ

To become soft, tender, or supple.

A separate adjectival or stative use of the verb.

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دَرَّ

Of a lamp, to give light, shine, or shine brightly.

Used of a lamp or other source of light.

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دَرَّ

Of a man's face, to become goodly after illness.

A specialized stative use describing recovery of the face's appearance.

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أَدَرَّ

To cause milk to flow or draw it forth; to suck or draw milk, or to milk an animal by stroking its teats.

Used both transitively for causing milk-flow and of an animal or person drawing milk.

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أَدَرَّ

To cause tribute or tax revenue to come in abundantly.

A causative economic extension of making milk flow.

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أَدَرَّ

To cause urine to flow plentifully; to act as a diuretic.

Used of a medicine or other agent; related medical usage includes promoting menstrual flow.

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أَدَرَّ

To ply or press importunately until something is yielded.

An idiomatic causative construction developed from repeatedly eliciting milk-flow.

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أَدَرَّ

To draw or procure the means of subsistence, or to draw divine favor by gratitude.

Used figuratively of sustenance and blessing.

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أَدَرَّ

Of wind, to draw a shower from clouds.

The cloud construction describes bringing forth fine rain; a related usage expresses seeking or expecting rain from clouds.

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أَدَرَّ

To cause a vein to flow, fill with blood, or move; more generally, to put something in motion.

Used of anger affecting a vein and of initiating motion.

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أَدَرَّ

To twist a spindle vehemently so that its rapid rotation makes it seem still.

Used of spinning a spindle.

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أَدَرَّ

To make an arrow turn smoothly on the nail of the thumb in the technical arrow test.

The causative counterpart of the specialized Form I archery use.

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أَدَرَّ

To inflict an uninterrupted beating.

Used transitively of repeated blows.

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اِسْتَدَرَّ

Of a she-goat, to desire the ram.

A figurative or euphemistic use connecting desire for mating with the subsequent production of milk.

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اِسْتَدَرَّ

To speak or talk much.

A metaphorical extension of continued or abundant outpouring.

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دَرْدَرَ

To chew or mumble an unripe date with toothless gums.

Used of a child or of someone whose speech or chewing resembles that of a toothless child.

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دَرْدَرَ

To lose one's teeth so that their sockets become apparent.

A separate use describing the condition of the gums after tooth loss.

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تَدَرْدَرَ

To move about or be in commotion; to quiver.

Used of a thing in motion, of a piece of flesh quivering, and idiomatically of a woman's buttocks quivering while she walks.

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دَرٌّ

Milk; by extension, milch animals and the teats of a camel or other cloven-footed animal.

The verbal noun is also used substantively for the product and its sources.

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دَرٌّ

In idioms, a deed, gift, bounty, wealth, or good proceeding from someone; hence an expression of praise or, in negation, of blame.

The phrases لِلّٰهِ دَرُّهُ and لَا دَرَّ دَرُّهُ preserve the original image of abundant milk while expressing admiration, blessing, or censure.

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دَرٌّ

The soul or inner self.

A lexical synonym of نَفْسٌ, especially in expressions describing a generous or manly disposition.

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دُرٌّ

A pearl, especially a large pearl.

The form is also used as a collective noun, with recorded plural forms دُرَرٌ and دُرَّاتٌ.

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دِرَّةٌ

Copious flowing milk; a flow, stream, or mode of flowing of milk.

The lexical discussion distinguishes a general abundance of milk from a single flow in some usage.

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دِرَّةٌ

A pouring forth of clouds or showers; flowing or streaming abundantly.

Used of clouds and rain; the historical Quran comparison in the lexical discussion is not treated as a modern verse citation for this headword.

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دِرَّةٌ

Brisk commercial activity, with goods selling much.

Used of a market in contrast with slack or stagnant trade.

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دِرَّةٌ

Continuous movement or uninterrupted running.

Used of the leg or stride of a horse and of a horse passing without being turned aside.

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دِرَّةٌ

Blood, by comparison with milk.

A figurative use, including the blood of warfare.

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دِرَّةٌ

The means of subsistence.

A figurative use based on milk as sustenance.

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دِرَّةٌ

A whip or scourge used for beating or flogging.

A conventional noun for an implement of punishment, particularly the whip associated with the Sultan.

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دَرَرٌ

The right course or direction of a road; a tract or point directly in front of something; the direction from which wind blows.

Used of a road's beaten or elevated track, the area opposite a house, or the wind's point of origin.

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دَرِيرٌ

Swift, especially a horse or similar animal that is fast and compactly built.

The adjective can emphasize speed, firmness, or compact construction.

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دَرِّيٌّ

Of a horse or mare, running much or frequently.

This is the horse-related adjective, distinct from the Quranic pearl-like adjective دُرِّيٌّ.

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الفَارِسِيَّةُ الدَّرِّيَّةُ

The chaste or most refined dialect of Persian.

The designation is explained by reference to دَرّ, a district name or a word meaning “door” or “gate.”

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دُرِّيٌّ

The glistening or shining quality of a sword.

A poetic relational use associated with the clarity of pearls or likened to the shining star.

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دَرَّارَةٌ

A spindle used for spinning wool or cotton.

A concrete instrument noun associated with vigorous turning.

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دُرْدُرٌ

The part of the gums where the teeth grow, especially in a child or after the teeth have fallen out.

The word is also reported, less commonly, for the tip or root of the tongue.

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دَرْدَرَةٌ

An onomatopoeic sound of water rushing through the beds of valleys.

This is a sound noun, distinct from the verbal noun of chewing or mumbling.

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دَرْدَارٌ

A particular tree, also called شَجَرَةُ البَقِّ and identified in later usage with the elm.

A botanical noun with a recorded association with gall-like excrescences containing insects.

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دَرْدَارٌ

The sound of a drum.

A separate onomatopoeic noun from the botanical term.

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دُرْدُورٌ

A whirlpool or violently turbulent place in the sea from which a ship scarcely escapes.

Used of dangerous marine turbulence.

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دَارٌّ

Abounding in milk; a milch she-camel, ewe, she-goat, or udder.

The adjective is applied to milk-producing animals and their udders.

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دَارٌّ

Pouring down abundant rain, said of the sky or a cloud.

A figurative adjective transferring abundant milk-flow to rain.

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دَارٌّ

Continual and uninterrupted sustenance or means of subsistence.

A figurative use applied to provision or livelihood.

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دَارٌّ

A lamp that gives light or shines brightly.

A substantive or adjectival use describing a luminous lamp.

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تَدِرَّةٌ

A copious flowing or streaming of milk.

A noun for abundant milk-flow.

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مُدِرٌّ

A medicine that promotes urine flow; by extension, an agent that promotes menstrual flow.

The medical uses are recorded under specialized collocations for diuresis and emmenagogy.

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مُدِرٌّ

A woman who twists a spindle so vigorously that it seems still from the speed of its rotation.

A specialized active-participial description of spinning.

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مُسْتَدِرٌّ

Arrows whose flight resembles streaming milk because of the force with which they are propelled.

A figurative poetic description of a group of arrows in flight.

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مُسْتَدِرٌّ

Of a horse, running far without being turned aside.

A figurative active-participial use describing sustained, unobstructed running.

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