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دَرَجٌ درج A way, road, or path; (S, L, K;) as also ↓ دَرْجٌ : (L:) and ↓ مَدْرَجَةٌ (S, A) and ↓ مَدْرَجٌ (A, K) signify [the same; or] a way by, or through, which one goes or passes; a way which one pursues; a course, or route; syn. مَذْهَبٌ (S) and مَسْلَكٌ (S, K) and مَمَرٌّ; (A;) and particularly the way along which a boy and the wind &c. go; as also دَرَجٌ; respecting which last, in relation to the wind, see دَرُوجٌ: (L:) or ↓ مَدْرَجٌ signifies a road; or a cross-road; or a bending road; and its pl. is مَدَارِجٌ: (Msb:) and ↓ مَدْرَجَةٌ is explained by Er-Rághib as signifying a beaten way or road: and it signifies also the course by which things pass, on a road &c.: and the main part of a road: and a rugged [road such as is termed] ثَنِيَّة, between mountains: (TA:) the pl. of دَرَجٌ (S, L) and of ↓ دَرْجٌ (L) is أَدْرَاجٌ (S, L) and دِرَاجٌ, which occurs in a prov. cited below: (Meyd:) and the pl. of مَدْرَجَةٌ is ↓ مَدَارِجٌ : (S, TA:) أَكَمَةٍ ↓ مَدَارِجُ signifies the roads that lie across a hill such as is termed اكمة. (TA.) You say أَدْرَاجَكَ meaning Go thy way, as thou camest. (TA from a trad.) And رَجَعَ دَرَجَهُ (TA) and رَجَعَ أَدْرَاجَهُ (Sb, S, K) and ↓ إِِدْرَاجَهُ (K) or عَلَى إِِدْرَاجِهِ (IAar) He returned by the way by which he had come. (S, K, TA.) And رَجَعَ دَرَجَهُ He returned to the thing, or affair, that he had left. (TA.) And رَجَعَ عَلَى أَدْرَاجِهِ and رَجَعَ دَرَجَهُ الأَوَّلَ He returned without having been able to accomplish what he desired. (IAar.) And اِسْتَمَرَّ دَرَجَهُ and أَدْرَاجَهُ [He kept on his way; persevered in his course]. (TA.) And هُوَ عَلَى دَرَجِ كَذَا He is on the way of, or to, such a thing. (TA.) And ↓ اِتَّخَذُوا دَارَهُ مَدْرَجَةً and ↓ مَدْرَجًا They made his house a way through which to pass. (A.) And لِهٰذَا ↓ هٰذَا الأَمْرُ مَدْرَجَةٌ (assumed tropical:) This thing, or affair, is a way that leads to this. (TA.) And الحَقِّ ↓ اِمْشَ فِى مَدَارِجِ (tropical:) Walk thou in the ways of truth. (TA.) And ذَهَبَ دَمُهُ أَدْرَاجَ الرِّيَاحِ (tropical:) His blood went for nothing; [lit., in the ways of the winds; meaning] so that no account was taken of it, and it was not avenged. (S, A, * K.) And خَلّ دَرَجَ الضَّبِّ Leave thou the way of the ضبّ [a species of lizard], (S, Meyd,) and oppose not thyself to him, (TA,) lest he pass between thy feet, and thou become angry (فَتَنْتَفِخَ): (S, Meyd:) a prov., applied in the case of demanding security from evil. (Meyd. [See another reading, and explanations thereof, in Har p. 220, or in Freytag's Arab. Prov. i. 437.]) And مَنْ يَرُدُّ الفُرَاتَ عَنْ دِرَاجِهِ or أَدْرَاجِهِ, accord. to different readings, with two different pls. of دَرَجٌ; i. e. Who will turn back Euphrates from its course? a prov. applied to an impossible affair. (Meyd.) And مَنْ يَرُدُّ السَّيْلَ عَلَى أَدْرَاجِهِ Who will turn back the torrent to its channels? another prov. so applied. (Meyd.) دَرَجُ سَيْلٍ and سَيْلٍ ↓ مَدْرَجُ signify The way by which a torrent descends in the bendings of valleys. (TA.) ― -b2- [Hence, perhaps, as denoting a way, or means,] (assumed tropical:) A mediator between two persons for the purpose of effecting a reconciliation. (K.) ― -b3- أَنَاَ دَرَجُ يَدَيْكَ means (tropical:) [I am submissive, or obedient, to thee;] I will not disobey thee: (A, TA: *) and درج used in this sense does not assume a dual nor a pl. form: [therefore] you say also, هُمْ دَرَجُ يَدِكَ (tropical:) They are submissive, or obedient, to thee. (TA.) ― -b4- دَرَجُ الرَّمْلِ and المَآءِ signify [The ripples of sand and of water;] what are seen upon sand, and upon water, when moved by the wind. (Az and TA in art. حبك.) See دَرُوجٌ. ― -b5- See also دَرَجَةٌ, in two places. -A2- And see دَرْجٌ.
An Arabic-English Lexicon. London. Williams and Norgate. 1863.
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