دردي

Borrowed from Aramaic דּוּרְדָּא / דּרְדָּא‎ (durdā), its plural דּוּרְדֵּי / דּרְדֵּי‎ (durdī), an Iranian loanwoard, compare Persian درد‎ (dord, “dregs”). This etymology is incomplete. You can help Wiktionary by elaborating on the origins of this term.

• IPA^(key): /dur.dijj/
• (Egypt) IPA^(key): /dir.diː/

دُرْدِيّ • (durdiyy) m

1. liquid sediment, lees, amurca
   • 7th century CE, Sunan an-Nasāʾiyy, 51:211:

     ‏سَأَلْتُ إِبْرَاهِيمَ «إِنَّا نَأْخُذُ دُرْدِيَّ الْخَمْرِ أَوِ الطِّلَاءَ فَنُنَظِّفُهُ ثُمَّ نَنْقَعُ فِيهِ الزَّبِيبَ ثَلَاثًا ثُمَّ نُصَفِّيهِ ثُمَّ نَدَعُهُ حَتَّى يَبْلُغَ فَنَشْرَبُهُ» قَالَ «يُكْرَهُ‏».‎‎

     saʾaltu ʾibrāhīma “ʾinnā naʾḵuḏu durdiyya l-ḵamri ʾawi ṭ-ṭilāʾa fanunaẓẓifuhu ṯumma nanqaʿu fīhi z-zabība ṯalāṯan ṯumma nuṣaffīhi ṯumma nadaʿuhu ḥattā yabluḡa fanašrabuhu” qāla “yukrahu”.

     I asked Ibrahim: “We take the lees of the wine or thick-wine and clean it, then soak it with raisins three days, then strain, then leave it until it has become ripe, and thus we drink it.” He said: “This is vile.”

   • c. 1200, يحيى بن محمد بن أحمد بن العوام‎ [Yaḥyā ibn muḥammad ibn ʾaḥmad ibn al-ʿawwām], José Antonio Banqueri, editor, كتاب الفلاحة‎ [Book on Agriculture], volume 2, Madrid: Imprenta Real, published 1802^IA, Cap. 21, Art. 1, page 86:

     ‏وينميه ويحسن نباته إن يصب دردي الزيت على الماء الذي يسقى به أو يرش رشا على أصوله ثم يسقى بالماء بعد ذلك … وإن جعل فوق دردي الزيت من هذا الزبل الذي وصفنا كان أقوى للباقلى وأنمى.‎‎

     What adds to growth and beauty of the plants in particular is when amurca is added to the water used for watering them or sprinkling upon their stems, after this only using the water … and if over the amurca some of this sharn is put that we have described this adds to the strength and growth of the beans.

• “dwrdˀ”, in The Comprehensive Aramaic Lexicon Project, Cincinnati: Hebrew Union College, 1986–
• Fraenkel, Siegmund (1886) Die aramäischen Fremdwörter im Arabischen (in German), Leiden: E. J. Brill, page 148
• Hinds, Martin; Badawi, El-Said (1986) A Dictionary of Egyptian Arabic, Beirut: Librairie du Liban, page 284
• Löw, Immanuel (1924) Die Flora der Juden‎ (in German), volume 2, Wien und Leipzig: R. Löwit, page 290
• Spiro, Socrates (1895), “دردي”, in An Arabic-English Vocabulary of the Colloquial Arabic of Egypt, First edition, Cairo: Al-Mokattam Printing Office, page 196