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دَخْدَارٌ دخدار A white, (S, K,) or black, (K,) garment, or piece of cloth, (S, K,) which is laid up, or preserved [in a chest, or wardrobe, whence its name]: (S:) an arabicized word, originally تَخْتْ دَارْ, (S, K,) which is Persian, and means يُمْسِكُهُ التَّخْتُ, i. e. ذُو تَخْتٍ. (S.) [Golius, app. misled by the words اصل تخت دار است, in the KL of Ibn-Maaroof, probably corrupted in the copy of that work used by him, adds to the explanation “ pannus albus ” &c., as from the work above mentioned, “ qui throno Regis Persici quondam insterni solebat: inprimis Darii. ”] ― -b2- Also Gold; (K;) because preserved in chests. (TA.)
An Arabic-English Lexicon. London. Williams and Norgate. 1863.
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