مدق

Arabic

Alternative forms

Etymology

Root
د ق ق (d-q-q)

Tool noun from دَقَّ (daqqa).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /mi.daqq/

Noun

مِدَقّ • (midaqq) m (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

Declension

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
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