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درقن

Root entry · 2 derived lemmas

This root primarily refers to a specific type of fruit, the peach, particularly as known in the Levant. It is a noun denoting this fruit.

Derived headwords

الدُّرَاقِنnoun
  1. 1.
    Peachboth

    The fruit known as a peach, specifically referred to as the 'Syrian peach'.

الدُّرَاقِنnoun
  1. 1.
    Peach (Levantine dialect)classical

    The peach fruit, identified as being called this in the dialect of the people of the Levant.

Parallel reading

الدراقن: الخوخ الشامي.
Al-duraaqin: the Syrian peach.
وقال أبو حنيفة: الدراقن الخوخ بلغة أهل الشام.
And Abu Hanifa said: Al-duraaqin is the peach in the language of the people of the Levant.