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الدَّسْتَبَنْدُ الدستبند [from the Pers. دَسْبَنْدْ] A certain game of the Magians, which they thus call; i. q. الدَّعْكَسَةُ: (S and K in art. دعكس:) they turn round [in a circle, as though imitating the revolutions of the “ host of heaven ”], having taken one another by the hand, [in a manner] like dancing. (K in that art.) [Hence probably originated the similar performances of certain Muslim darweeshes in celebrating what they term a ذِكْر, described in the works of several travellers, and in my own work on the Modern Egyptians.]
An Arabic-English Lexicon. London. Williams and Norgate. 1863.
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