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دُكٌّ دك A low mountain: (S, K:) or an elevated, or overlooking, hill of mould, or clay, in which is somewhat of ruggedness: (As, TA:) pl. دِكَكَةٌ; (As, S, K;) and دِكَكٌ [app. another, though irregular, pl. of the same,] is said to signify قِيرَان [i. e. small isolated mountains, or knolls of mountains, &c., (see قَارَةٌ,)] breaking, or crumbling, down: or disintegrated [hills, or mountains, such as are called] هِضَاب. (TA.) ― -b2- [See also أَدَكُّ, of which it is a pl.] -A2- Also Strong and bulky. (Ibn-'Abbád, K.)
An Arabic-English Lexicon. London. Williams and Norgate. 1863.
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