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دَيْجُورٌ ديجور Darkness: (S, A, K:) pl. دَيَاجِيرُ (TA) and دَيَاجِرُ. (A, TA.) You say, خُضْتُ إِِلَيْكَ دَيْجُورًا كَأَنِّى خُضْتُ بَحْرًا مَسْجُورًا [I waded to thee through darkness as though I waded through a full sea]. (A.) And, in a saying of 'Alee, تَغْرِيَدَ ذَوَاتِ المَنْطِقِ فِى دَيَاجِيرِ الَوْكَارِ [Like the warbling of singing birds in the dark recesses of the nests]. (TA.) ― -b2- It is also used as an epithet: you say لَيْلٌ دَيْجُورٌ Dark night: (TA:) and لَيْلَةٌ دَيْجُورٌ a dark night: (S, A, TA:) and دِيمَةٌ دَيْجُورٌ a dark lasting and still rain. (AHn.) ― -b3- Also, applied to dry herbage, Dark and abundant; (Sh, K;) because of its blackness: (Sh:) or abundant and piled up: (IAth:) or, applied to herbage, abundant. (ISh.) ― -b4- Also, applied to dust, or earth, (TA,) Of a dusty colour, inclining to black, (K,) like the colour of ashes. (TA.) ― -b5- Also Dust, or earth, (Sh, K,) itself: (Sh:) pl. دَيَاجِيرُ. TA.)
An Arabic-English Lexicon. London. Williams and Norgate. 1863.
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