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درمق

Root entry · 3 derived lemmas

This root relates to fine flour or meal, specifically flour that has been ground or milled. It also touches upon related concepts of clothing and Persian terms.

Derived headwords

الدَّرْمَقnoun
  1. 1.
    fine flourclassical

    A term for fine flour or meal, specifically that which has been milled or ground.

الدَّرْمَكnoun
  1. 1.
    fine flourclassical

    Fine flour or meal, particularly that which has been milled or ground.

النَّرْمَقnoun
  1. 1.
    soft garmentclassical

    A soft garment or clothing, derived from the Persian word 'narm'.

Parallel reading

لغة في الدرمك وهو الدقيق المحور
A dialectal variant of al-durmak, which is the milled flour.
يطعم الدرمق ويكسو النرمق
He feeds with fine flour and clothes with soft garments.
فأبدل الكاف قافا
So he substituted the kaf with a qaf.
أراد بالنرمق «1» بالفارسية نرم
He intended by al-narmak, in Persian, 'narm' (soft).