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1 دَارَ دار داري , aor. يَدُورُ, inf. n. دَوْرٌ and دَوَرَانٌ (S, M, A, Msb, K) and دُؤُورٌ (M) and مَدَارٌ; (Lth, T;) and ↓ استدار ; (M, A, Msb, K;) and ↓ ادار ; (M;) He, or it, went, moved, or turned, round; circled; revolved; returned to the place from which he, or it, began to move. (TA.) ― -b2- You say, دَارُوا حَوْلَهُ and ↓ استداروا They went round it: (A:) and دار حَوْلَ البَيْتِ and ↓ استدار He went round the house [or Kaabeh]. (Msb.) Z and others dislike the phrase داربِالبَيْتِ, [which seems to have been used in the same sense as دار حَوْلَهُ,] preferring the phrase طَافَ بِالبَيْتِ, because of the phrase دار بَالدُّوَارِ, signifying He went round about in the circuit called الدُّوَار, round the idol called by the same name. (TA.) [بِهِ ↓ استدار mostly signifies It encircled, or surrounded, or encompassed, it.] ― -b3- [You say also, دار بَيْنَهُمْ It (a thing, as, for instance, a wine-cup) went round, or circulated, among them. And] دار الفَلَكُ فِى مَدَارِهِ [The firmament, or celestial orb or sphere, revolved upon its axis]: (A:) دَوَرَانُ الفَلَكِ signifies the consecutive incessant motions of the several parts of the firmament. (Msb.) ― -b4- Hence the saying دَارَتِ المَسْأَلَةُ, [inf. n. دَوْرٌ,] The question formed a circle; one of its propositions depending for proof upon another following it, and perhaps this upon another, and so on, and the latter or last depending upon the admission of the first. (Msb.) [And in like manner, دار, inf. n. دَوْرٌ, signifies He reasoned in a circle.] ― -b5- It is said in a trad., ↓ إِِنَّ الزَّمَانَ قَدِ ا@سْتَدَارَ كَهَيْئَتِهِ يَوْمَ خَلْقِ ا@للّٰهِ السَّمٰوَاتِ وَ الأَرْضَ [Verily time hath come round to the like of the state in which it was on the day of God's creating the heavens and the earth: this was said by Mohammad after he had forbidden the practice of intercalating a lunar month, by which the Arabs had long imperfectly adjusted their lunar year to the solar.] (TA.) And one says, دَارَتِ الأَيَّامُ [The days came round in their turns]. (S and Msb and K in art. دول.) And يَوْمٌ لَا يَدُورُ فِى شَهْرِهِ [A day of the week that does not come round again in its month: as the last Wednesday, &c.]. (Mujáhid, TA voce دُبَارٌ [q. v.].) [And دار is said of an event, as meaning It came about. See an ex. in a verse cited in art. اذ.] ― -b6- داربِهِ It went round with him; as the ground and the sea do [apparently] with a person sick by reason of vertigo, or giddiness in the head. (L in art. ميد. [See also 4.]) ― -b7- One says also, بِمَا فِى ↓ استدار قَلْبِى (tropical:) He comprehended [as though he encircled] what was in my heart. (A.) ― -b8- And فُلَانٌ يَدُورُ عَلَى أَرْبَعِ نِسْوَةٍ (tropical:) Such a one has within the circuit of his rule and care four wives, or women. (A.) And فُلَانٌ يَدُورُ حَوْلَ فُلَانَةَ وَيُجَمِّشُهَا (tropical:) [Such a man has within his power and care such a female, and toys, dallies, wantons, or holds amorous converse, with her]. (A and TA in art. حوض.) And أَنَا أَدُ(??) حَوْلَ ذٰلِكَ الأَمْرِ (tropical:) [I have within my compass, or power, and care, that thing or affair]. (S and A in art حوض.) -A2- See also 4, in four places.
An Arabic-English Lexicon. London. Williams and Norgate. 1863.
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