دلدل

Arabic

Etymology 1

Reduplicated from د ل و (d-l-w).

Verb

دَلْدَلَ (daldala) Iq, non-past يُدَلْدِلُ‎ (yudaldilu)

  1. to make pendulate, to let dangle
Conjugation
  • تَدَلْدَلَ (tadaldala, to pendulate, to dangle)

Etymology 2

دُلْدُل

From دَلْدَلَ (daldala, to let dangle) as for the porcupine’s form of bearing its spines.

Alternative forms

  • دُلْدُول (duldūl)

Noun

دُلْدُل (duldul) m (plural دَلَادِل (dalādil))

  1. crested porcupine (Hystrix cristata)
    • 7th century CE, Sunan an-Nasāʾiyy, 26:33:
      يَا أَهْلَ الْخِيَامِ هَذَا الدُّلْدُلُ هَذَا الَّذِي يَحْمِلُ أُسَرَاءَكُمْ مِنْ مَكَّةَ إِلَى الْمَدِينَةِ
      yā ʾahla l-ḵiyāmi haḏā d-duldulu haḏā allaḏī yaḥmilu ʾusarāʾakum min makkata ʾilā l-madīnati
      O people of the tents, this porcupine is the one who is taking your captives from Makka to Al-Madīna!
Declension

References

  • Freytag, Georg (1833), دلدل”, in Lexicon arabico-latinum praesertim ex Djeuharii Firuzabadiique et aliorum Arabum operibus adhibitis Golii quoque et aliorum libris confectum (in Latin), volume 2, Halle: C. A. Schwetschke, page 48
  • Nöldeke, Theodor (1904) Beiträge zur semitischen Sprachwissenschaft (in German), Straßburg: Karl J. Trübner, pages 109–110
  • Wehr, Hans; Kropfitsch, Lorenz (1985), دلدل”, in Arabisches Wörterbuch für die Schriftsprache der Gegenwart (in German), 5th edition, Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, published 2011, →ISBN, page 402
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