Lane's Lexicon (Edward Lane, 1863)

دَانٍ دان داني [ Being, or becoming, near; drawing near, or approaching: and hence, near; like دَنِىٌّ:] act. part. n. of دَنَا مِنْهُ. (Msb.)

أَدْنَى ذ Nearer, and nearest; opposed to أَقْصَى: (TA:) fem. دُنْيَا; (M, TA;) in which the [radical] و is changed into ى, as in عُلْيَا and قُصْيَا: (ISd, TA voce بُقْوَى:) [the pl. of the masc. is أَدَانٍ and أَدْنَوْنَ; the latter in the accus. and gen. أَدْنَيْنِ: and] the pl. of the fem., دُنًى, (S, K, TA,) like كُبَرٌ pl. of كُبْرَى, and صُغَرٌ pl. of صُغْرَى; (S, TA;) said by some to be extr. and strange [in respect of usage]; and El-Mutanebbee has been blamed for using it; (MF, TA;) but in the case referred to he has used الدُّنَى for الدُّنْيَا, [not as a pl.,] suppressing the ى by poetic license. (TA.) [Hence,] غُلِبَتِ الرُّومُ فِى أَدْنَى الأَرْضِ, in the Kur xxx. 1 and 2, The Greeks have been overcome in the nearer, or nearest, part of the land. (Bd, Jel.) And الجَمْرَةُ الدُّنْيَا [ The nearest heap of pebbles; ] the heap of pebbles nearest to Minè. (TA. [See art. جمر.]) And السَّمَاآءُ الدُّنْيَا [ The nearest heaven; i. e. the lowest; ] the heaven that is the nearest to us: (T, TA:) also called سَمَاآءُ الدُّنْيَا [which means the heaven of the present world; as will be seen from what follows]. (TA.) See also exs. of the fem. in the paragraph commencing with the words هُوَ ا@بْنُ عَمٍّ دِنْىٍ, in four places. ― -b2- Also Former, and first; and fore, and foremost; opposed to اآخِرٌ. (TA.) [Hence,] ↓ لَقِيتُهُ أَدْنَى دَنِىٍّ (S, K, TA) and ↓ أَدْنَى دَنًا, (K, TA, [in the CK, erroneously, ادنى دَنّىٰ and ادنى دَنِىٍّ,]) i. e. I met him the first thing. (S, K.) [And أَدْنَى الفَمِ The fore, or foremost, part of the mouth. ] And الدُّنْيَا [for الدَّارُ الدُّنْيَا, and الحَيَاةُ الدُّنْيَا, The former dwelling, or abode, and life; i. e. the present world, and life, or state of existence ]; contr. of الاآخِرَةُ: (M, K:) [or] it is so called because of its nearness: (T, S:) [and may be rendered the sublunary abode, &c.: and the inferior abode, &c. It also signifies The enjoyments, blessings, or good, of the present world, or life; worldly blessings or prosperity, &c.] And sometimes it is with tenween, (K, TA,) when used indeterminately: (TA:) [thus,] IAar mentions the saying مَا لَهُ دُنْيًا وَ لَا اآخِرَةٌ [as meaning He has none of the enjoyments, or blessings, of the present world, nor in prospect any enjoyments, or blessings, of the world to come ]; with tenween. (M, TA.) And you say, بَاعَ دُنْيَاهُ بِاآخِرَتِهِ [ He purchased his enjoyments of the present world at the expense of his enjoyments of the world to come ]. (Z, TA in art. بيع.) And اَبْنُ الدُّنْيَا means The rich man. (Msb in art. بنى.) ― -b3- Also More, and most, apt, fit, or proper: thus in the Kur [xxxiii. 59], in the phrase ذٰلِكَ أَدْنَى أَنْ يُعَرَفْنَ [ That will be more, or most, apt, fit, or proper, that they may be known ]; (Ksh, Mgh;) i. e., that they may be known to be free women, as distinguished from female slaves, who did not cover their faces. (Jel.) ― -b4- Also Less [ in number or quantity &c.], and least [ therein ]; opposed to أَكْثَرُ. (TA.) وَلَا أَدْنَى مِنْ ذٰلِكَ وَلَاأَكْثَرَ, in the Kur [lviii. 8], means Nor less in number than that, nor more in number. (Bd.) And وَلَنُذِيقَنَّهُمْ مِنَ ا@لْعَذَابِ ا@لْأَدْنَى دُونَ ا@لْعَذَابِ ا@لْأَكْبَرِ, in the Kur [xxxii. 21, lit. And we will assuredly make them to taste of the smaller punishment besides the greater punishment ], means, accord. to Zj, whatever punishment is inflicted in the present world and the punishment of the world to come. (M.) ― -b5- Also Worse, [or inferior in quality,] and worst; or more, and most, low, ignoble, base, vile, mean, or weak; opposed to خَيْرٌ. (TA.) It is said in the Kur [ii. 58], أَتَسْتَبْدِلُونَ ا@لَّذِى هُوَ أَدْنَى بِا@لَّذِى هُوَ خَيْرٌ [ Will ye take in exchange that which is worse, or inferior, for that which is better? or], accord. to Zj, meaning that which is less in value [ for that which is better ]? ادنى being thus, without ء: Fr says that it is here from الدَّنَاآءَةٌ: and Zuheyr El-Kurkubee [or (accord. to some) El-Furkubee] read أَدْنَأُ. (T.)

مُدْنٍ ماد مدن مدنن مدينة and مُدْنِيَةٌ, applied to a she-camel, (M, K,) and to a woman, (M,) Near to bringing forth. (M, K.)

مُدَنٍّ ماد مدن مدنن مدينة , applied to a man, Weak; (S, TA;) contemptible (خَسِيسٌ); not profitable to any one; who falls short in everything upon which he enters; [like دَنِىٌّ;] (TA;) or falling short of accomplishing that which it behooves him to do: (AHeyth, T:) also, for the sake of rhyme, [by poetic license,] written مُدَنْ. (T.)

R. Q. 1 دَهْدَهَ دهده دهدة , (JK, S, K,) inf. n. دَهْدَهَةٌ, (JK,) He rolled a stone down; (S,* K,* TA;) as also دَهْدَى, (S, K,) inf. n. دَهْدَاةٌ and دِهْدَاآءٌ: (S:) or he cast stones, or a thing, from a higher to a lower place. (JK.) ― -b2- And He turned over a thing, one part upon another; (K;) as also دَهْدَى. (TA.) ― -b3- And He collected together camels to drive them. (JK.)

R. Q. 2 تَدَهْدَهَ تدهده تدهدة , said of a stone, (S, K,) &c., (S,) It rolled down; (S,* K,* TA;) as also تَدَهْدَى. (S, K.) ― -b2- And hence, He, or it, was quick. (Har p. 108.)

اـِلَّا دَهْ فَلَا دَهْ الا ده فلا ده الا ده فلا دة , (JK, and so in some copies of the K,) or اـِلَّا دَهٍ فَلَا دَهٍ, (As, IAar, S, TA, and so in copies of the K,) a saying of the Arabs, meaning If this thing be not now, it will not be after the present time: (As, S, K:) As says, I know not its origin, but I think it to be Pers., and to mean, if thou strike not him, or it, now, thou wilt not strike him, or it, ever: (S:) accord. to IAar, it is said to a man when he is at the point of accomplishing his want in respect of a creditor of his, or in respect of his blood-revenge, or in respect of paying honour to a friend of his; (TA;) and means if thou seize not the opportunity now, thou wilt never meet with it: (K, TA:) accord. to Lth, (TA,) it means, if thou avenge not his blood, or if thou slay him not in blood-revenge, now, thou wilt never do so. (JK, TA.) Accord. to As, one says also, لَا دَهٍ فَلَا دَهٍ, meaning I will not accept either of the two actions proposed. (TA.) Az says that this saying shows ده to be Pers., and to mean The act of striking: you say to a man, ↓ دِهْ, meaning Strike thou: and he says, I have seen it written with kesr in the book of AZ. (TA.) ↓ دِهْ in Pers. means Give thou: and metonymically, the act of striking. (TA.)

دُهْ دُهْ ده ده ده دة A cry by which camels are chidden; (IAar, TA;) a cry by which camels are called to their young ones. (K in art. دوه.) -A2- دُهْ دُرَّيْنِ, or دُهْ دُرَّيْنْ: see art. دهدر.

دِهْ ده دة : see دَهْ, last two sentences.

دَهْدَهَةٌ دهدهه دهدهة A hundred camels, and more; (JK, K;) as also ↓ دَهْدَهَانٌ and ↓ دُهَيْدِهَانٌ: (K:) or ↓ the second of these three words signifies many camels. (JK, S.)

دَهْدَهَانٌ دهدهان : see what next precedes, in two places: and what next follows.

دَهْدَاءٌ دهداء Small, or young, camels: (JK, S, K:) pl. دَهَادِهُ. (S, * K.) A rájiz says, قُلَيِّصَاتٍ وَأُبَيْكِرِينَا ↓ قَدْ رَوِيَتْ اـِلَّا دُهَيْدِهِينَا [ They had satisfied their thirst, except some small, or young, camels; little young she-camels and little young he-camels ]: as though he formed from دَهْدَاهٌ the pl. دَهَادِهُ; and from this, the dim. دُهَيْدِهٌ; and from this, the pl. دُهَيْدِهِينَ [in the nom. case دُهَيْدِهوُنَ]: (S, TA:*) and in like manner, أُبَيْكِرِينَ as pl. of أُبَيْكِرٌ, dim. of أَبْكُرٌ, pl. of بَكْرٌ. (S.) [Accord. to a passage imperfectly written in the TA, it seems to signify also Many small, or young, camels; and so, as there written, دهدان, app. for ↓ دَهْدَهَانٌ.] ― -b2- One says also, مَا أَدْرِى أَىٌّ الدَّهْدَاهِ هُوَ, (TA,) or الدَّهْدَأِ and الدَّهْدَاآءِ, the last on the authority of Ks, meaning I know not what one of men he is. (S, TA.)

دُهْدُوهٌ دهدوه دهدوة , (K, [accord. to the TA دُهْدُوَهٌ, but this is a mistake,]) or دُهْدُوهَةٌ, (IB,) The thing which the جُعَل [or species of black beetle called cantharus ] rolls, (IB, K, TA,) consisting of dung which it collects, (IB, TA,) in a round form; (TA;) and so دُهْدُوَّةٌ and دُهْدِيَّةٌ, [the last of these, for alleviation of the utterance,] also without teshdeed. (IAar, K.)

دُهَيْدِهَانٌ دهيدهان : see دَهْدَهَةٌ.

دُهَيْدِهِينَ دهيدهين : see دَهْدَاهٌ.

دُهْدُرٌّ دهدر a noun signifying What is false, or vain; a lie; syn. بَاطِلٌ and كَذِبٌ: as also دُهْدُرَّيْنِ, (K,) its dual, (TA,) or دُهْ دُرَّيْنِ, or دُهْ دُرَّيْنْ: (as in different copies of the S:) whence دُهْدُرَّيْنِ and ↓ دُهْدُرِّيَّةٌ are epithets applied to a liar; or a great or habitual liar: and accord. to AZ, the Arabs used to say, دُهْدُرَّانِ لَا يُغْنِياَنِ عَنْكَ شَيْئًا [ Lies will not avail thee aught ]: and دُهْدُنٌّ signifies the same as دُهْدُرٌّ. (TA.) ― -b2- دُهْدُرَّيْنِ is also a noun, (K,) i. e. a verbal noun, (TA,) signifying He was, or has become, unoccupied, or without work; syn. بَطَلَ; (K;) like سَرْعَانَ for سَرُعَ, and هَيْهَاتِ for بَعُدَ. (TA.) Hence the prov., (TA,) دُهْدُرَّيْنِ سَعْدُ القَيْنِ, (As, K,) without the conjunction وَ [after the first word], and دهدرّين being written as one word, (TA,) meaning Saad the blacksmith became, or has become, unoccupied, or without work; not being employed because of the people's being diverted from other things by drought (As, K) and distress. (TA.) Some say سَاعدُ القَيْنِ: and Aboo-'Obeydeh Maamar Ibn-El-Muthennà relates it thus: دهدرّين سَعْدَ القَيْن, with سعد in the accus. case, and says that دهدرّين is governed in the accus. case by a verb understood; apparently meaning that it is a noun signifying البَاطِلُ, dual of دُهْدُرٌّ, not a verbal noun, as though the prov. meant Cast ye away what is false, or vain, and Saad the blacksmith: but what he says is not correct. (TA.) Or a certain blacksmith asserted his name to be Saad for some time, and then his lying became manifest; so this was said to him; meaning, Thou hast added falsehood to falsehood, O Saad the blacksmith. (K.) It is also related separately; (K;) and so J and others relate it; saying ده درّين: (TA:) [in one copy of the S, I find it written دُهْ دُرَّيْنْ: in another, دُهْ دُرَّيْنِ:] دُهْ being an imperative from الدَّهَاآءُ; its final radical letter being transposed to the place of the medial, so that it becomes دُوْهْ, and the و being then rejected because of the two quiescent letters, (K,) so that it becomes دُهْ, like as is done in the case of قُلْ: (TA:) and دُرَّيْنِ being from دَرَّ, “ it was consecutive; ” (K;) by the dual form being meant repetition, as in the case of لَبَّيْكَ &c.: (TA:) so that the meaning is Be thou very lying (K) and cunning, (TA,) O Saad (K) the blacksmith: (TA:) and this explanation, says IB, is good, except inasmuch as that the د in درّين thus derived should be with fet-h; or, he adds, it may be with damm to assimilate it to the د in دُهْ [like as القَيْنِ is terminated with kesr to assimilate it to دُرَّيْنِ]. (TA.) Or the origin of the saying was this: Saad the blacksmith was a Persian, who went about the districts of ElYemen, working for the people; and when he became without work in a district, he used to say, in Persian, دِهْ بَدْرُودْ: [so in a copy of the S; and this, or دِهْ بِدْرُودْ, is the correct reading: in another copy of the S, دَهْ بَدُورُدْ: and in the copies of the K, دِهْ بَدْرُودْ:] (S, K:*) meaning, [ O town, or village, ] farewell: to acquaint them that he was going forth on the morrow: (K:) or meaning I am going forth to-morrow: (S:) in order that he might be employed: and they arabicized the expression, and made him the subject of a prov. with respect to lying; and said, When ye hear of the blacksmith's departure at night, he is assuredly coming in the morning. (S, K.) Some say that the prov. is elliptical, for بَطَلَ قَوْلُ سَعْدٍ الخ [ False is the saying of Saad &c.]. (TA.) [This is mentioned in the S in art. در.]

دُهْدُرَّيَّةٌ دهدريه دهدرية : see above, first sentence.

Q. 1 دَهْدَى دهدى دهدي , inf. n. دَهْدَاةٌ: see R. Q. 1 in art. ده.

Q. 2 تَدَهْدَى تدهدى تدهدي : see R. Q. 2 in art. ده.

دَهْدَاآءٌ دهداآء : see دَهْدَاهٌ, in art. ده.

دُهْدُوَّةٌ دهدوه دهدوة [app. originally دُهْدُوْيَةٌ, like as قُوَّةٌ is held by some to be originally قُوْيَةٌ,] and دُهْدِيَّةٌ [likewise originally دُهْدُوْيَةٌ], and the latter also without teshdeed [for alleviation of the utterance]: see دُهْدُوهٌ, in art. ده.

1 دَهَرَهُمْ أَمْرٌ ذ , (JK, A, K,) and دَهَرَ بِهِمْ أَمْرٌ, (S, TA,) aor. دَهَرَ , (K,) An event befell them (S, A) from fate, or fortune: (A:) or an evil event befell them. (JK, K.) In a trad. respecting the death of Aboo-Tálib occur these words [as said by him]: لَوْ لَا أَنًّ قُرَيْشًا تَقُولُ دَهَرَهُ الجَزَعُ لَفَعَلْتُ [ Were it not that the tribe of Kureysh would say, Impatience hath befallen him, (or, perhaps, constrained him, from دَهْرٌ signifying “fate,” or overcome him, see what follows,) I would do it ]. (TA.) ― -b2- دَهَرَهُ, (Bd in xlv. 23,) inf. n. دَهْرٌ, (K,) He overcame, conquered, subdued, overpowered, or mastered, him; gained the mastery, prevailed, or predominated, over him; or surpassed him. (Bd ubi suprà, B, * K.)

3 عَامَلَهُ مُدَاهَرَةٌ ذ and دِهَارًا is like مُشَاهَرَةً [i. e. it means He made an engagement, or a contract, or bargain, with him to work, or the like, for a long period, or for a constancy; like as مُشَاهَرَةً means “for a month”]. (K.) And in like manner one says, اِسْتَأْجَرَهُ مُدَاهَرَةً and دِهَارًا [ He hired him for a long period, or for a constancy ]. (Lh, TA.)

Q. Q. 1 دَهْوَرَهُ دهرهم أمر , (S, K,) inf. n. دَهْوَرَةٌ, (TA,) He collected it together, and threw it into a deep place. (S, K.) ― -b2- He pushed it, namely, a wall, so that it fell. (K.) ― -b3- دهوراللُّقَمَ He made the mouthfuls large, (S, A,) or round, (Az,) and gulped them down. (Az, A.)

Q. Q. 2 تَدَهْوَرَ دهور تدهور It (sand) poured down, and for the most part fell. (Msb.) ― -b2- And hence, He, or it, fell down, from a higher to a lower place. (Msb.) ― -b3- And It (the night) for the most part went: (Msb:) or departed, or retreated. (K, TA.)

دَهْرٌ دهر (T, S, M, K, &c.) and ↓ دَهَرٌ, (M, K,) the latter either a dial. var., agreeably with the opinion of the Basrees in cases of this kind, and therefore such cases are limited by the authority of hearsay, or it is so written and pronounced because of the guttural letter, and so is accordant to a universal rule, agreeably with the opinion of the Koofees, (ISd,) Time, from the beginning of the world to its end; (Esh-Sháfi'ee, Az, Msb, Er-Rághib;) as also حِينٌ: (Esh-Sháfi'ee, Az:) this is the primary signification: (Er-Rághib:) and any long period of time; (Z, Mgh, K, Er-Rághib;) thus differing from زَمَانٌ, which will be explained below: (Er-Rághib:) and a portion of the longest period of time: (Az:) or دَهْرٌ signifies, (S, A,) or signifies also, (Az, Msb,) time; or a time; or a space, or period, of time; syn. زَمَانٌ, (Sh, Az, S, A, Mgh, Msb,) whether long or short: (Msb:) or this is the proper signification of زَمَانٌ, but not of دَهْرٌ: (Er-Rághib:) and (tropical:) a division of the year: and (tropical:) a less period: (Az, Msb:) Az says, I have heard more than one of the Arabs say, أَقَمْنَا عَلَى مَاآءِ كَذَا دَهْرًا [ We stayed at such a water a long time, or a time ]; and هٰذَا المَرْعَى يَكْفِينَا دَهْرًا [ This pasture-land will suffice us a long time, or a time ]; but one does not say that الدَّهْرُ is four times, or four seasons, because its application to (tropical:) a short period of time is tropical, and an extension of its proper signification: (Msb:) or it signifies i. q. أَبَدٌ [meaning a long unlimited time; or an extended indivisible space of time; or duration without end; time without end ]; (S, Msb;) it differs from زَمَانٌ in having no end: (Khálid Ibn-Yezeed:) or a prolonged, or lengthened, term; syn. أَبَدٌ مَمْدُودٌ: (K, in some copies of which, in the place of ابد, we find أَمَد:) and (tropical:) the period, or duration, of life; an age: (Kull p. 183:) the present state of existence: (Msb:) and (assumed tropical:) a thousand years: (K:) pl. [of pauc.] أَدْهُرٌ (K) and [of mult.] دُهُورٌ: (S, A, K:) both said to be pls. of دَهْرٌ, and no other pls. are known as those of دَهَرٌ; the form أَدْهَارٌ not having been heard. (TA.) ― -b2- You say مَضَى عَلَيْهِ دَهْرٌ and دُهُورٌ [ A long time and long times, or an age and ages, &c., passed over him, or it ]. (A.) ― -b3- And كَانَ ذٰلِكَ دَهْرَ النَّجْمِ That was in the time of God's creation of the stars; meaning, in the beginning of time; in ancient time. (A.) ― -b4- [And فِى أَوَّلِ الدَّهْرِ In the beginning of time. (A.) ― -b5- [And يَبْقَى الدَّهْرَ It remains for ever. ― -b6- And لَا اآتِيهِ الدَّهْرَ I will not come to him, ever. See also دَاهِرٌ.] ― -b7- And صَامَ الدَّهْرَ [ He fasted ever, or always ]. (TA in art. اول, &c. [See a trad. cited voce اآلَ, in that art.]) ― -b8- [Hence, because, in one sense, time brings to pass events, good and evil,] الدَّهْرُ was applied by the Arabs to Fortune; or fate: and they used to blame and revile it: and as the doing so was virtually blaming and reviling God, since events are really brought to pass by Him, Mohammad forbade their doing thus. (Az, Mgh, TA, &c.) It is said in a trad., لَا تَسُبُّوا ا@لدَّهْرَ فَاـِنَّ ا@لدَّهْرَ هُوَ ا@للّٰهُ, (S, Mgh, TA, &c.,) or, accord. to one reading, فَاـِنَّ ا@للّٰهُ هُوَ ا@لدَّهْرُ, (Az, Mgh, TA, &c.,) in which some explain الدهر in the first proposition as having a different meaning from that which it has in the second, whereas others assign to it the same meaning in both cases: (TA:) the meaning of the trad. is, Revile ye not [ fortune, or] the Efficient of fortune; for the Efficient of fortune is God: (Az, S, TA, &c.:) or, accord. to the second reading, for God is the Efficient of fortune. (TA.) Hence, (TA,) some reckon الدَّهْرُ as one of the names of God: (K, &c.:) but some disallow this: and some say that it is allowable if meant to signify, as rendered above, the Efficient of fortune. (TA, &c.) ― -b9- زَوْجُ دَهْرٍ A husband prepared for the accidents or calamities of fortune. (S in art. بهر. [See بَهْرٌ.]) ― -b10- دَهْرٌ also signifies An evil event or accident; a misfortune; a calamity. (K.) See also دَهَارِيرُ. [And see 1.] ― -b11- Also A purpose; an intention: (S, K:) a desire: (TA:) the scope, or end that one has in view. (K, TA.) You say, مَا دَهْرِى بِكَذَا, (S, TA,) and مَا دَهْرِى كَذَا, (TA,) My purpose, or intention, (S, TA,) and my desire, and my scope, or the end that I have in view, (TA,) is not such a thing. (S, TA.) ― -b12- Also (tropical:) A custom, or habit, (S, K,) that is constant, or permanent, (Kull p. 183,) or that lasts throughout life. (TA.) You say, مَا ذَاكَ بِدَهْرِى (tropical:) That is not my custom, or habit, (S,) that lasts throughout my life: (TA:) and مَا دَهْرِى بِكَذَا (tropical:) My habit throughout life is not so. (TA.)

دَهَرٌ دهر : see دَهْرٌ.

دَهْرِىٌّ دهر دهرى دهري (S, A, Msb, K) and ↓ دُهْرِىٌّ (K) One who deviates from the truth, and introduces into it that which does not belong to it, syn. مُلْحِدٌ; (S, A;) who asserts that the duration of the present world is from eternity, (A, Msb,) or that it is everlasting, (K,) and does not believe in the resurrection, (Msb,) or in the world to come. (TA.) ― -b2- And the latter, (S, A, Msb, K,) or the former, (IAmb,) An old, or aged, man. (IAmb, S, A, Msb, K.) Th says that both are rel. ns. from الدَّهْرُ, though the latter is contr. to rule, [as is also remarked in the Msb,] like سُهْلِىٌّ from الأَرْضُ السَّهْلَةُ. (S.) ― -b3- Some say also that the latter signifies An acute, or ingenious, or expert, man. (TA.)

دُهْرِىٌّ دهر دهرى دهري : see the next preceding paragraph.

دِهْرَارٌ دهرار : see دَهَارِيرُ.

دُهرُورٌ دهرور : see دَهَارِيرُ.

دِهْرِيرٌ دهرير : see دَهَارِيرُ.

دَهيِرٌ دهير : see دَاهِرٌ.

دَهَارِيرُ دهارير , a pl. without a sing.; (K, TA;) or its sing. is ↓ دَهْرٌ, like as the sing. of مَذَاكِيرُ is ذَكَرٌ, and that of مَشَابِهُ, شَبَهٌ; or its sing. is ↓ دُهْرُورٌ, or ↓ دِهْرَارٌ, [in the TA written by mistake دهرات,] or ↓ دِهْرِيرٌ; (TA;) Misfortunes; calamities: as in the phrase وَقَعَ فِى الدَّهَارِيرِ He fell into misfortunes, or calamities. (A, TA.) ― -b2- Also Severe, or calamitous. (S.) It is said in a trad. of Sateeh, فَاـِنَّ ذَا الدَّهْرَ أَطْوَارًا دَهَارِيرُ [ For verily this age is at times calamitous ]. (TA.) دَهْرٌ دَهَارِيرُ, A severe, or calamitous, age, is a phrase like لَيْلَةُ لَيْلَاآءُ, and نَهَارٌ أَنْهَرُ, &c.: (S:) [see also دَاهِرٌ:] and it also signifies a time of two states, adverse and prosperous: (TA:) and دُهُورٌ دَهَارِيرٌ, various, or varying, times: (K:) or long times. (A.) [See دَاهِرٌ.] ― -b3- Also دَهَارِيرُ [or rather, as IbrD says, دَهْرُ الدَّهَارِيرِ, for this has the signification immediately following,] The beginning of time past: and [absolutely] preceding, or past, time. (K, TA.) You say كَانَ ذٰلِكَ فِى دَهْرِ الدَّهَارِيرِ [ That was in the beginning of past time: or in the time of by-gone ages ]. (TA.)

دَهْرٌ دَاهِرٌ دهر داهر (S, K) and ↓ دَهْرٌ دَهِيرٌ (K) are phrases in which the epithet has an intensive effect, [meaning A long, or an endless, period, or course, of time, ] (K,) like أَبَدٌ أَبِيدٌ (S, TA) and أَبَدٌ اآبِدٌ: (TA:) or a severe, or calamitous, age. (TA.) [See also دَهَارِيرُ.] ― -b2- لَا اآتِيكَ دَهْرَ الدَّهِرِينَ I will not come to thee, ever: (S, K:) similar to the phrase أَبَدَ الاآبِدِينَ. (TA.)

هُمْ مَدْهُورٌ بِهِمٌ هم مدهور بهم , and مَدْهُورُونَ, They are afflicted with an evil event. (K.)

1 دَهِشَ ذ , (S, A, Msb, K,) aor. دَهَشَ , (S, Msb, K,) inf. n. دَهَشٌ; (S, Msb;) and دُهِشَ, (S, A, K,) which is said to be formed by transposition from شُدِهَ, but Az denies this, and says that دُهِشَ is the superior form; (TA;) He became confounded, or perplexed, and unable to see his right course: (S, K:) or he became bereft of his reason or intellect (Msb, K) in consequence of shame, or of fear, (Msb,) or of heedlessness, or diversion by some occupation, or of fear, or grief, or intense grief, (K,) or of fright, and the like: (TA:) and ↓ دهّش, inf. n. تَدْهِيشٌ, signifies the same: (K, TA:) or this last is trans., like ادهش. (TK.) -A2- دَهَشَهُ: see 4.

2 دَهَّشَ see 1: -A2- and 4.

4 ادهشهُ ذ He, (God, S, TA, or a man, Msb, K,) or it, (shame, A, TA, and an affair, TA,) confounded, or perplexed, him, so that he was unable to see his right course: (S, K:) or bereft him of his reason or intellect; (Msb, K;) as also ↓ دَهَشَهُ, aor. دَهَشَ , inf. n. دَهْشٌ; but some disallow this; (Msb;) and ↓ دهّشهُ. (TK.)

دَهِشٌ ذ (A, K) and ↓ مَدْهُوشٌ (S, A, Msb, K) and ↓ دَهْشَان [whether with or without tenween is not indicated] (TA) Confounded, or perplexed, and unable to see his right course: (S, K:) or bereft of his reason or intellect (Msb, K) in consequence of shame, or of fear, (Msb,) or of heedlessness, or diversion by some occupation, or of fear, or grief, or intense grief, (K,) or of fright, and the like. (TA.)

أَصَابَتْهُ دَهْشَةٌ ذ [ A fit of confusion, or perplexity, so that he was unable to see his right course, or a fit of alienation of mind in consequence of shame or fear, &c., befell him ]. (A, TA.)

دَهْشَان ذ : see دَهِشٌ.

مَدْهُوشٌ ذ : see دَهِشٌ.

Q. 1 دَهْقَنَ دهقن : see the next paragraph. -A2- دَهْقَنُوهُ, (inf. n. دَهْقَنَةٌ, TK,) They made him a دِهْقَان. (K.) El-'Ajjáj says, دُهْقِنَ بِالتَّاجِ وَبِالتَّسْوِيرِ [ He was made a دهقان by receiving the تاج (meaning either crown or turban ) and by being decked with bracelets ]. (TA.) ― -b2- دَهْقَنَ الطَّعَامَ, (A'Obeyd, TA,) inf. n. دَهْقَنَةٌ, with which دَهْمَقَةٌ is syn., (As, TA,) He made the food soft, or delicate: (As, A'Obeyd, TA:) because softness, or delicacy, of food is from الدَّهْقَنَةُ [as meaning التَّدَهْقُن]. (As, TA.)

Q. 2 تَدَهْقَنَ تدهقن He was, or became, a دِهْقَان: (S, K, Mgh, TA:) or he had, or possessed, much wealth; as also ↓ دَهْقَنَ [app. in both of these senses]: (Msb:) derived from دِهْقَانٌ. (Mgh.) ― -b2- Also He affected, or feigned, or made a show of, sharpness or quickness of intellect, cleverness, ingeniousness, skilfulness, knowledge, or intelligence; syn. تَكَيَّسَ. (TA.)

دَهْقَنَةٌ دهقنه دهقنة [inf. n. of Q. 1: and signifying The state, or condition, of a دِهْقَان;] a subst from دِهْقَانٌ; (JK, K;) derived from the latter word. (Mgh.) You say, لَهُ دَهْقَنَةٌ بِمَوْضِعِ كَذَا [ He has a state, or condition, which is that of a دِهْقَان in such a place. (S.)

دِهْقَانٌ دهقان , (S, Mgh, Msb, K, &c.,) also written دُهْقَانٌ, (JK, Msb, K,) in [some of] the copies of the S written [دِهْقَانٌ and دَهْقَانٌ,] with kesr and fet-h, [thus written in one of my copies of the S,] and said by AO [as there cited] to be like قرطاس, which is written with each of the three vowels, (TA,) an arabicized word, (S, Msb, K,) from the Pers. [دِهْ “a town or village” and خَانْ “a prince or lord”]; (TA;) if derived from تَدَهْقَنَ, (Kh, Sb, S,) i. e. if the ن be regarded as radical, perfectly decl. [and written as above]; (Kh, Sb, S;) but if derived from الدَّهْقُ, imperfectly decl. [and written دِهْقَانُ &c.], because of the measure فعلانُ; (S;) [but this statement relates especially to the measure فَعْلَان, with fet-h to the ف; except in the case of a proper name; and an epithet of this measure, moreover, that forms its fem. by the addition of ة, as دهقان does, is perfectly decl.; and it should be observed also, that,] accord. to IJ, دهقان is of the measure فعلال, from تَدَهْقَنَ, and there is no instance, in the language, of the measure تَفَعْلَنَ; (Har p. 102;) it signifies The headman, or chief, of a village or town: (Es-Sem'ánee, Msb, TA: [agreeably with the Pers. original:]) or the proprietor thereof, in Khurásán and El-' Irák: (Es-Sem'ánee, TA:) or, as used by the Arabs, a great man of the unbelievers of the ' Ajam [or Persians ]: but they disdained this appellation: (Mgh:) Lth says that it is a nickname, or name of reproach: (TA:) it became predominantly applied to such of them as was of the people of the districts of cultivated land and of villages or towns: and then to anyone possessing much land or other immoveable property: (Mgh:) [it signifies generally a dweller, or one having a fixed abode, in a district of cultivated land, or in a village or town of such a district; a rustic; a husbandman: ] or it signifies a chief, headman, or person in authority, over the husbandmen, or peasants, of the 'Ajam [or Persians ]: and the headman of a province: (K:) and a possessor of land or other immoveable property: (Msb:) and a merchant: (Msb, K:) and one who manages affairs firmly, or strongly, with sharpness: (K:) the fem. is with ة: (JK, Mgh, K:) and the pl. is دَهَاقِينُ (Msb, K) and دَهَاقِنَةٌ. (K.) [See a verse cited voce جَذَا in art. جذو. The same verse, but with قَرْيَتِى (my village or town) in the place of قَرْيَةٍ, is also cited in the TA in the present art.]

دِهْلِيزٌ دهليز [ An entrance-passage of a house; an entrance-hall; a vestibule; ] what is between the [ outer ] door or gate and the house; (S, K;) the place of entrance to a house: (Msb:) a Persian word, (S, Msb,) originally داليج, and داليز, and دالان, and, as some say, دَلِيجٌ, (Lth,) arabicized: (Lth, S, Msb:) [also, in modern Arabic, an ante- chamber: and the anterior apartment of a large tent or pavilion: accord. to the MA, a large tent: accord. to some copies of the K, i. q. جَيْئَةٌ: accord. to some, خَنِيَّةٌ, which reading is preferred by the author of the TK, who explains دهليز, from the “Burhán,” as meaning “absurd words:” accord. to some, حَنِيَّةٌ, which I think the right reading, meaning a bowed, or curved, structure: Golius seems to have found another reading in the K, namely, حَيَّةٌ:] pl. دَهَالِيزُ. (S, Msb, K.) ― -b2- [Hence,] أَبْنَاآءُ الدَّهَالِيزِ (assumed tropical:) Foundlings, (K, * TA,) whose fathers are unknown. (TA.) [They are so called because they are generally abandoned at the entrances of mosques or private houses, whence they are usually taken by persons who adopt them.]

1 دَهِمَهُمْ أدهم دهم دهمهم (S, Msb) and دَهَمَهُمْ, (Msb,) aor. دَهَمَ , (S, Msb,) inf. n. دَهْمٌ, (TA,) It (an event, S, Msb) came upon them, or happened to them, suddenly, unexpectedly, without their being aware of it, or without any previous cause; surprised them; took them by surprise, or unawares: (Msb:) or دَهَمَكَ and دَهَمَكَ, aor. دَهَمَ , it (anything) came upon thee so as to overwhelm thee, or cover thee, or as a thing that overwhelmed thee, or covered thee. (Th, K.) And دَهِمَتْهُمُ الخَيْلُ [ The horsemen came upon them suddenly, &c.]: and AO says that دَهَمَتْهُم is a dial. var. thereof. (S.) See also دَهْمٌ, below.

2 دَهَّمَتِ النَّارُ القِدْرَ دهمت النار القدر , inf. n. تَدْهِيمٌ, The fire blackened the cooking-pot. (ISh, K.)