مدق

• مِدَقّة‎ (midaqqa)

Tool noun from دَقَّ‎ (daqqa) from the root د ق ق‎ (d-q-q).

• IPA^(key): /mi.daqq/

مِدَقّ • (midaqq) m (plural مَداقّ‎ (madāqq) or مِدَقَّات‎ (midaqqāt))

1. an implement to pound or beat things with it or upon it
   1. beetle, batlet

      Synonyms: وَبِيل‎ (wabīl), مِيجَم‎ (mījam), مِكْبَس‎ (mikbas), بَيْزَر‎ (bayzar), بَيْذَر‎ (bayḏar), بَيْزَارَة‎ (bayzāra), كُذِين‎ (kuḏīn), مِكْمَدَة‎ (mikmada)

   2. pestle

      Synonyms: يَد‎ (yad), دَسْتَج‎ (dastaj)

      1. (botany) the pistil or gynoecium of a flower

         Synonyms: مَتَاع‎ (matāʕ), وَزِيم‎ (wazīm)

   3. (Yemen, Najrān) larger mortar, an ancient spot in mountainous terrain for crushing
      • 2019 November 29, مشعل بن عبد الله, “مَدَقّات الجدود تحاصر الأخدود!!‎ [with motion pictures]”, in Rattibha‎:

      Synonyms: مِهْرَاس‎ (mihrās), جُرْن‎ (jurn), هَاوُن‎ (hāwun)

   4. clapper, clanger, tongue of a bell or a bell itself

      Synonym: نَاقُوس‎ (nāqūs)

   5. hammer or hew (especially one considered to crush stone)

      Synonyms: مِطْرَقَة‎ (miṭraqa), شَاكُوش‎ (šākūš), مِلْطَس‎ (milṭas)

2. various a kind of construction and military vehicle:
   1. pile driver (from the image of a hammer)

      Synonym: مَاكِنَة دَقّ الرَكَائِز‎ (mākina(t) daqq ar-rakāʔiz)

   2. battering ram
3. (Egypt) trail, path, groove, track
   • 2017 May 12, محمد حيزة, “بالصور.. مصيف جمصة يستعد لاستقبال المصطافين (with pics, that with an excavator)”, in Yawm 7‎:

     ‏عمل مدقات لذوى الاحتياجات الخاصة‎

     Road work for those with particular needs

• Dozy, Reinhart Pieter Anne (1881), “مدق”, in Supplément aux dictionnaires arabes (in French), volume 1, Leiden: E. J. Brill, page 451b
• Landberg, Carlo, editor (1920) Glossaire daṯînois‎ (in French), Leiden: Brill, page 819
• Lane, Edward William (1863), “مدق”, in Arabic-English Lexicon, London: Williams & Norgate, pages 897a–b
• Piamenta, Moshe (1991) Dictionary of Post-Classical Yemeni Arabic, Leiden: Brill, →ISBN, page 153b
• Schönig, Hanne (2002) Schminken, Düfte und Räucherwerk der Jemenitinnen: Lexikon der Substanzen, Utensilien und Techniken (Beiruter Texte und Studien; 91)‎, Würzburg: Ergon-Verlag, →ISBN, page 173