دردق

Arabic

Etymology

From Aramaic דַּרְדַּק‎ / ܕܪܕܩܐ‎ (dardaqā, “small; young”, adjective), originally דַּקְדַּק‎ / ܕܿܩܕܩܐ‎ (daqdaqā), from the root cognate to Arabic د ق ق‎ (d-q-q).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /dar.daq/

Noun

دَرْدَق • (dardaq) m (collective, singulative دَرْدَقَة‎ f (dardaqa), plural دَرَادِق‎ (darādiq)) (obsolete, poetic)

  1. offspring, children (of man or camel)
    • a. 846, Ibn al-ʾAʿrābī, unnamed title‎, archived from the original on 16 June 2021:
      ‏أَعْدَدْت للجارِ وللرَّفِيقِ، – والضَّيْفِ والصاحِبِ والصَّدِيقِ
      ولِلْعِيالِ الدَّرْدقِ اللُّصُوقِ – حَمْراء مِنْ نَسْلِ أَبي مَرْزُوقِ
      تَمْسَحُ خَدَّ الحالِبِ الرَّفِيقِ، – بِلَبنِ المَسِّ قَلِيلِ الرِّيقِ
      كأن صوت شخبها الفـتـيق – فحيح ضبٍ حربٍ حـنـيق
      في جحرٍ ضاق أشد الضيق
      ‎
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Declension

References

  • “drdq”, 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 111
  • Freytag, Georg (1833), “دردق”, 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 22a
  • Müller, David Heinrich (1887), “Arabisch-aramäische Glossen”, in Wiener Zeitschrift für die Kunde des Morgenlandes‎ (in German), volume 1, page 24
  • Nöldeke, Theodor (1875) Mandäische Grammatik‎ (in German), Halle: Verlag der Buchhandlung des Waisenhauses, page 185

Sudanese Arabic

Etymology

Compare Modern Standard Arabic دَحْرَجَ‎ (daḥraja). Also in Hijazi Arabic, specifically the Medina dialect, in the same form as in Sudanese Arabic in reference to rolling eyes.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /dardaɡ/

Verb

دردق (dardag) (form Iq)

  1. (transitive) to trundle, to roll
    • 2018, reema_albodiry, ديسباسيتو‎, fan fiction, الجزء 07:
      ‏هنا قلبي اتدردق دردقت تحت رجولي..وبلعته ريقي وخشمي جفه‎
      Here my heart rolled over, I rolled under my man: I gulped my spittle and my mouth dried it.

Derived terms

  • اتدردق‎ (itdardag, “(intransitive) to roll”)
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