دلك
Root entry · 1 derived lemmaدَلِيكٌ دليك Dust which the wind carries away [as though it were rubbed from the ground]. (S, K.) ― -b2- A certain food, prepared of butter and dates, [app. kneaded, or mashed, together, ] (S, K,) like ثَرِيد [q. v.]: I think [says J] that it is what is called in Persian Jَنْكَال خُسْت [or JَنْGَال خِشْت?]: (S, TA:) accord. to Z, تَمْرٌ دَلِيكٌ signifies مَرِيس [i. e. dates macerated, and mashed with the hand, or moistened, and rubbed and pressed with the fingers till soft, in water or in milk ]. (TA.) [See also دَلِيكَةٌ.] -A2- (tropical:) A man (K, TA) rendered firm, or sound, in judgment, by experience; (TA;) one who has exercised himself diligently in the management of affairs, (K, TA,) and known them: (TA:) pl. دُلُكٌ, (K,) which is explained by IAar as signifying intelligent men. (TA.) -A3- A certain plant: (K:) n. un. with ة. (TA.) ― -b2- And The [ hip, or] fruit of the [ wild ] red rose, that comes after it, [i. e. after the flower, ] (K, TA,) becoming red, like wheat, and ripening, (TA,) and becoming sweet, like the fresh ripe date; called in Syria صُرْمُ الدِّيْكِ: (K, TA:) n. un. with ة: (TA:) or [the fruit of ] the mountainrose الوَرْد الجَبَلِىّ [a name now given to the wild rose, or sweet brier ], like wheat بُرّ [in the CK بُسْر]) in size and redness, and like the fresh ripe date in sweetness: in El-Yemen it is sent from one to another as a present: (K, TA:) Az says, so I have heard from an Arab of the desert, of the people of El-Yemen; and it grows with us [app. meaning in El-'Irák] so as to form thickets. (TA.)
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