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دِيبَاجٌ ديباج , (S, A, Mgh, Msb, K, &c.,) or دَيْبَاجٌ, (Th,) or both, (IAar, A'Obeyd,) the latter having been sometimes heard, (IAar,) or the latter is post-classical, (A'Obeyd,) or wrong, (AZ,) a word of well-known meaning, (K,) [Silk brocade;] a certain kind of cloth, or garment, made of إِِبْرِيسَم [i. e. silk, or raw silk]: (TA:) a kind of cloth, or garment, of which the warp and woof are both of ابريسم: and particularly a name for that which is variegated, decorated, or embellished: (Mgh, Msb:) a kind of woven stuff, variegated, or diversified, with colours: (Lb, TA:) [accord. to Golius, as on the authority of the S and K, in neither of which is the word explained at all, “ vestis serica: imprimis picta, pec. Attalica, auro intexta:] derived from دَبَجَ: (Ks:) or it is a Pers. word, (Kr, S, A,) arabicized; (Kr, S, A, Msb, K;) so some say, and from it دَبَجَ is derived; (Msb;) originally دِيبَاىْ, or دِيبَا; (Kr;) [or rather دِيبَاهْ, for the change of the final ه into ج in arabicized words from the Pers. is very common;] or دِيوْ بَافْ, i. e. “ the weaving of the deevs, or jinn, or genii: ” (Shifá el-Ghaleel:) pl. دَيَابِيجُ and دَبَابِيجُ; (S, Msb, K;) the latter being from the supposed original form of the sing., i. e. دِبَّاجٌ; (S, Msb;) like دَنَانِيرُ [pl. of دِينَارٌ, which is supposed to be originally دِنَّارٌ]: and in like manner is formed the dim. [↓ دُيَيْبِيجٌ and ↓ دُبَيْبِيجٌ ]. (S.) ― -b2- دِيبَاجُ القُرْآنِ is a title given by Ibn-Mes'ood to The chapters of the Kur-án called الحَوَامِيمُ [the fortieth and six following chapters; each of which begins with the letters حٰم=]. (TA.) ― -b3- See also the paragraph next following, in two places. -A2- Also A young she-camel; one in the prime of life. (IAar, K.)
An Arabic-English Lexicon. London. Williams and Norgate. 1863.
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