ذريرة

Arabic

ذَرِيرَة

Etymology

From the root ذ ر ر (ḏ-r-r).

Noun

ذَرِيرَة (ḏarīra) f (plural ذَرَائِر (ḏarāʾir) or أَذِرَّة (ʾaḏirra))

  1. sweet flag, Acorus calamus
    Synonym: وَجّ (wajj)
  2. powdered fragrant, perfume brayed particularly from the sweet flag (which is by reason of this use also known as Calamus aromaticus)

Declension

References

  • Freytag, Georg (1833), ذريرة”, 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, pages 82–83
  • Lane, Edward William (1863), ذريرة”, in Arabic-English Lexicon, London: Williams & Norgate, page 957
  • Wehr, Hans; Kropfitsch, Lorenz (1985), ذريرة”, in Arabisches Wörterbuch für die Schriftsprache der Gegenwart (in German), 5th edition, Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, published 2011, →ISBN, pages 426–427
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