حدق

حَدِيقَةٌ حديقه حديقة A walled garden; a garden surrounded by a wall: (S, Msb, TA:) of the measure فَعِيلَةٌ in the sense of the measure مَفْعُولَةٌ: (Msb:) or any round piece of land surrounded by a fence or the like, or by elevated land: (TA:) or whatever is surrounded by building: (K:) and, by extension of its application, a garden, though without a wall: (Msb:) or a meadow, or garden, (رَوْضَة,) having trees: (S, K:) or a garden of palm-trees and of other trees, (Zj, IDrd, K,) dense and luxuriant, (Zj, IDrd, TA,) and, as some say, fruit-bearing: (TA:) or a garden (جَنَّة) of palmtrees and grape-vines: (TA:) or a distinct collection of palm-trees: (K:) or a plot of seedproduce: (Kr, TA:) or a hollow in a valley, that retains water: and any depressed place in a valley, that retains water, thought water be not in its bottom: (TA:) pl. حَدَائِقُ. (S, Msb, K.) Hence the saying, وَ رَدَ عَلَىَّ كِتَابُكَ فَتَنَزَّهْتُ فِى بَهْجَةِ حَدَائِقِهِ (tropical:) [ Thy letter has come to me, and I have recreated myself in contemplating the beauty of its garden-like phrases ]. (TA.)