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دُرْجَةٌ درج درجه درجة A thing which is rolled up, and inserted into a she-camel's vulva, and then [taken forth, whereupon] she smells it, and, thinking it to be her young one, inclines to it [and yields her milk]: (S:) or, accord. to Aboo-Ziyád El-Kilá- bee, (S,) a thing (T, S, K) consisting of rags, (T,) or of tow and rags (S, M) and other things, (M,) which is rolled up, (T, K,) and stuffed into a she-camel's vulva, (T, S, M, K,) and into her tuel, (K,) and bound, (TA,) when they desire her to incline to the young one of another, (T, S,) having first bound her nose and her eyes: (S:) they leave her thus, (S, K,) with her eyes and nose bound, (K,) for some days, (S,) and she in consequence suffers distress like that occasioned by labour: then they loose the bandage [of her vulva] from her, and this thing comes forth from her, (S, K,) and she thinks it to be a young one; and when she has dropped it, they unbind her eyes, having prepared for her a young camel, which they bring near to her, and she thinks it to be her own young one, and inclines to it: (S:) or with the thing that comes forth from her they besmear the young one of another she-camel, and she thinks it to be her own young one, and inclines to it: (K:) the thing thus rolled up is called دُرْجَةٌ (T, S) and جَزْمٌ and وَثِيقَةٌ; (T;) and the thing with which her eyes are bound, غِمَامَةٌ; and that with which her nose is bound, صِقَاعٌ: (S:) the pl. [of mult.] is دُرَجٌ (S, TA) and [of pauc.] أَدْرَاجٌ: (TA:) or it signifies [or signifies also] a piece of rag containing medicine, which is put into a she-camel's vulva when she has a complaint thereof: pl. دُرَجٌ. (L, K.) ― -b2- Also (tropical:) A piece of rag stuffed with cotton, which a woman in the time of the menses puts into her vulva, (K, TA,) to see if there be any remains of the blood: (MF:) likened to the درجة of a she-camel. (K.) It is said in a trad. of 'Áïsheh, كُنَّ يَبْعَثْنَ بِاالدَّرَجَةِ فِيهَا الكُرْسُفُ [They (women) used to send the درجة, with cotton therein]: (IAth, K, * TA:) but accord. to one reading it is دِرَجَة, (IAth, K,) pl. of دُرْجٌ [explained above], meaning “ a thing like a small سَفَط, in which a woman puts her light articles and her perfumes: ” (IAth:) El-Bájee read دَرَجَة, which seems to be a mistake. (K.) ― -b3- See also 4, last sentence. -A2- And see what here next follows.
An Arabic-English Lexicon. London. Williams and Norgate. 1863.
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