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الدرز

Root entry · 5 derived lemmas

This root primarily relates to worldly pleasures and enjoyments, particularly those that are attained or grasped. It also extends to terms for specific types of clothing seams, and pejoratively to lower classes of people or insects.

Derived headwords

الدَّرْزnoun
  1. 1.
    worldly pleasuresclassical

    The enjoyments and delights of this world.

  2. 2.
    seamsclassical

    Refers to the seams of a garment, likely a loanword.

دَرَزَverb
  1. 1.
    to attain pleasuresclassical

    To become firmly established in or to grasp the pleasures and delights of this world.

دُرُوزnoun
  1. 1.
    seamsclassical

    The seams of a garment, considered a loanword.

  2. 2.
    lice and nitsclassical

    A term referring to lice and their eggs.

بَنَاتُ الدُّرُوزِnoun
  1. 1.
    lice and nitsclassical

    A collective term for lice and their eggs.

أَوْلَادُ دَرْزَةٍnoun
  1. 1.
    lowly peopleclassical

    A derogatory term for people of low social standing.

  2. 2.
    tailorsclassical

    Refers to tailors.

  3. 3.
    weaversclassical

    Refers to weavers.

Parallel reading

نعيم الدنيا، ولذاتها.
The bliss of this world, and its pleasures.
ودرز، كفرح: تمكن منها.
And 'daraza', as in 'faraha': to become firmly established in them (pleasures).
ودروز الثوب: م، معرب.
And 'durooz' of the garment: plural, a loanword.
وبنات الدروز: القمل، والصئبان.
And 'banat al-durooz': lice, and nits.
وأولاد درزة: السفلة، والخياطون، والحاكة.
And 'awlad darzah': the lowly, the tailors, and the weavers.