This text is part of:
Table of Contents:
دَيْرٌ دير , originally with و; (T, S;) or originally thus, with ى, (M, [and so accord. to the place in which it is mentioned in the A and Msb and K,]) as appears from the occurrence of the ى in its pl. and in the derivative دَيَّارٌ, for if the ى were in this case interchangeable with و it would occur in other derivatives; (M;) [or this is not a valid reason, for دَيَّارٌ is held by J to be originally دَيْوَارٌ, i. e. of the measure فَيْعَالٌ; and ISd himself seems in one place to express the same opinion; in like manner as دَيُّورٌ is held by the latter to be originally دَيْوُورٌ; and تَدَيَّرَ is evidently altered from تَدَوَّرَ;] A convent, or monastery, (خان,) of Christians: (M, K:) and also the صَوْمَعَة [i. e. cloister, or cell,] of a monk: (A:) the pl. is أَدْيَارٌ (S, M, K) and دُيُورَةٌ. (Msb.) ― -b2- [Hence,] رأْسُ الدَّيْرِ [lit. The head of the convent or monastery] is an appellation given to (tropical:) Any one who has become the head, or chief, of his companions. (IAar, S, A, K.)
An Arabic-English Lexicon. London. Williams and Norgate. 1863.
The U.S. Department of Education, The Max Planck Society provided support for entering this text.
This work is licensed under a
Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 United States License.
An XML version of this text is available for download, with the additional restriction that you offer Perseus any modifications you make. Perseus provides credit for all accepted changes, storing new additions in a versioning system.
hide
Dictionary Entry Lookup
Use this tool to search for dictionary entries in all lexica.
