دلدل

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Arabic[edit]

Root
د ل د ل (d-l-d-l)

Etymology 1[edit]

Reduplicated from د ل و (d-l-w). Compare Hebrew דלדל.

Verb[edit]

دَلْدَلَ (daldala) Iq, non-past يُدَلْدِلُ‎ (yudaldilu)

  1. (transitive) to make pendulate, to let dangle
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Etymology 2[edit]

دُلْدُل

From دَلْدَلَ (daldala, to let dangle) as for the porcupine’s form of bearing its spines.

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Noun[edit]

دُلْدُل (duldulm (plural دَلَادِل (dalādil))

  1. crested porcupine (Hystrix cristata)
    • 7th century CE, Sunan an-Nasāʾiyy, 26:33:
      يَا أَهْلَ الْخِيَامِ هَذَا الدُّلْدُلُ هَذَا الَّذِي يَحْمِلُ أُسَرَاءَكُمْ مِنْ مَكَّةَ إِلَى الْمَدِينَةِ
      yā ʔahla l-ḵiyāmi haḏā d-duldulu haḏā allaḏī yaḥmilu ʔusarāʔakum min makkata ʔilā l-madīnati
      O people of the tents, this porcupine is the one who is taking your captives from Makka to Al-Madīna!
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References[edit]

  • Freytag, Georg (1833) “دلدل”, in Lexicon arabico-latinum praesertim ex Djeuharii Firuzabadiique et aliorum Arabum operibus adhibitis Golii quoque et aliorum libris confectum[1] (in Latin), volume 2, Halle: C. A. Schwetschke, page 48
  • Nöldeke, Theodor (1904) Beiträge zur semitischen Sprachwissenschaft[2] (in German), Straßburg: Karl J. Trübner, pages 109–110
  • Wehr, Hans with Kropfitsch, Lorenz (1985) “دلدل”, in Arabisches Wörterbuch für die Schriftsprache der Gegenwart[3] (in German), 5th edition, Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, published 2011, →ISBN, page 402