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دُرَاقِنٌ دراقن and دُرَّاقِنٌ, (K, and the latter is mentioned in one of my copies of the S,) the latter is that which is in common use, (TA,) The peach; syn. خَوْخٌ: (AHn, IDrd, K; and so in a copy of the S:) and the apricot; syn. مِشْمِشٌ; (K;) but this application of the words is not known: (TA:) of the Syrian dial.: (K, and so in a copy of the S:) IDrd says that the people of Syria call the former fruit دراقن, which is an arabicized Syrian word, or [rather] Greek, [originally δωράκιον ,] and El-Jawáleekee also mentions it among arabicized words. (TA.)
An Arabic-English Lexicon. London. Williams and Norgate. 1863.
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