ردج

أَرَنْدَجٌ ذ (Lh, S, K) and اـِرَنْدَجٌ (K) and ↓ يَرَنْدَجٌ (Lh, S) Black skin [or leather ], (S, K,) of which boots are made: termed by Ru-beh, in the following hemistich, ↓ أَرْدَاج: كَأَنَّمَا سُرْوِلْنَ فِى الأَرْدَاجِ [ As though they were clad in trousers of ارندج]: (K:) accord. to A' Obeyd, originally Pers., (S,) arabicized, (K,) from رَنْدَهْ: (S, K:) one should not say رَنْدَجٌ: (ISk, S:) accord. to Lh, i. q. دَارِشٌ: or, he adds, as some say, a skin [or leather ] different from that termed دارش: or i. q. زَاجٌ, with which one blackens. (TA. [See what follows.]) With respect to these words of a poet, describing a woman as ignorant, or inexperienced, قَبْلَهَا ↓ لَمْ تَدْرِ مَا نَسْجُ اليَرَنْدَجِ [ She knew not what is the weaving of يرندج before it ], it is said that he imagined يرندج to be woven, or that he meant that this woman, by reason of her ignorance, or inexperience, imagined it to be so. (TA.) ― -b2- [It is said, app. on the ground of an assertion mentioned above, that] ↓ يَرَنْدَجٌ also signifies A certain black dye; (L;) the black [or blacking ] with which boots are blacked: or زَاجٌ [i. e. vitriol ]. (K.) ― -b3- Az mentions ارندج and ↓ يرندج as quadriliteral-radical words. (TA.)