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دخل دخن دد


1. ⇒ دخن

دَخَنَتِ النَّارُ, aor. ـَ {يَدْخَنُ} and ـُ {يَدْخُنُ}, (Ṣ, Ḳ,) inf. n. دَخْنٌ and دُخُونٌ, (Ḳ,) The دُخَان of the fire rose; [i. e. the fire smoked, or sent up smoke;] as alsoاِدَّخَنَت↓, (Ṣ, Ḳ,) of the measure اِفْتَعَلَت; (Ṣ;) andأَدْخَنَت↓, andدَخَّنَت↓; (Ḳ;) the last with teshdeed, mentioned by Z. (TA.)

Root: دخن - Entry: 1. Signification: A2

And دَخَنَ الدُّخَانُ, (JK,) and الغُبَارُ (Ḳ) and النَّقْعُ, (TA,) inf. n. دُخُونٌ, (Ḳ) The smoke, (JK,) and ‡ the dust, (Ḳ, TA,) rose; or spread, or diffused itself. (JK, Ḳ, TA.)

Root: دخن - Entry: 1. Signification: A3

And دَخِنَتِ النَّارُ, (JK, Ṣ, Mṣb, Ḳ,) with kesr to the خ, (Ṣ, Mṣb, Ḳ,) aor. ـَ {يَدْخَنُ}, (JK, Mṣb, Ḳ,) inf. n. دَخَنٌ, (Mṣb,) The smoke (دُخَان) of the fire (JK, Ṣ, Mṣb, Ḳ) became vehement, (JK,) or became excited, or raised, (Ṣ, Mṣb, Ḳ,) in consequence of its having firewood, (JK, Ṣ, Mṣb, Ḳ,) in a fresh, or green, state, (JK,) thrown upon it, (JK, Ṣ, Mṣb, Ḳ,) and being thus marred. (Ṣ, Mṣb, Ḳ.)

Root: دخن - Entry: 1. Signification: A4

دَخِنَ, aor. ـَ {يَدْخَنُ}, said of food, (JK, Ḳ,) and of flesh-meat, (TA,) inf. n. دَخَنٌ, (JK,) means It was, or became, infected with smoke (دُخَان), (Ḳ, TA,) while being roasted or cooked, (TA,) and acquired its odour, (Ḳ, TA,) so that this predominated over its flavour: (TA:) [in this sense] it is said of cooked food when the cooking-pot is infected with smoke (إِذَا تَدَخَّنَتِ↓ القِدْرُ). (Ṣ, TA.)

Root: دخن - Entry: 1. Signification: A5

[Hence, as is indicated in the TA, it is said of wine, or beverage, as meaning † It became altered for the worse in odour. (See دَخِنٌ.)]

Root: دخن - Entry: 1. Signification: A6

[Hence also,]It was, or became, of a dusky, or dingy, colour, inclining to black, (Ḳ, TA,) like the colour of iron: (TA:) you say دَخِنَ النَّبْتُ, and دَخِنَتِ الدَّابَّةُ, ‡ The plant, and the beast, became of that colour; (Ḳ, TA;) as though overspread with smoke (دُخَان); (TA;) as also دَخُنَ, aor. ـُ {يَدْخُنُ}, inf. n. دُخْنَةٌ. (Ḳ.)

Root: دخن - Entry: 1. Signification: A7

[Hence also,] دَخِنَ خُلُقُهُHis nature, or disposition, was, or became, bad, corrupt, or wicked. (Ḳ, TA. [See also دَخَنٌ, below.])


2. ⇒ دخّن

see 1, first sentence.

Root: دخن - Entry: 2. Dissociation: B

دخّنهُ [He smoked it, or made it smoky]; namely, flesh-meat. (Ṣ in art. شيط.) And دخّنهُ بِالدُّخْنَةِ [He fumigated it, or him, with what is termed دُخْنَة, q. v.]; namely, a house, or tent, or chamber, (JK, Ṣ, M, Mgh, Mṣb, Ḳ,) and a garment, (M,) and another man. (TA.) And دَخَّنُوا عَلَى قَوْمٍ فِى غَارٍ فَقَتَلُوهُمْ [They smoked a party of men in a cave and so killed them]. (TA.)


4. ⇒ ادخن

see 1, first sentence.

Root: دخن - Entry: 4. Signification: A2

أَدْخَنَ الزَّرْعُ; (JK, CK, and so in my MṢ. copy of the Ḳ;) orاِدَّخَنَ↓, (so in the Ḳ accord. to the TA,) of the measure اِفْتَعَلَ; (TA;)The seed-produce became hard in the grain, (JK, Ḳ, TA,) and full therein; (JK;) being overspread with a slight duskiness, or dinginess. (TA.)


5. ⇒ تدخّن

تدخّن i. q. تَبَخَّرَ [He fumigated himself]: (TA in art. بخر:) from الدُّخْنَةُ. (Mgh.) You say, of a man, تدخّن بِالدُّخْنَةِ [He fumigated himself with what is termed دُخْنَة q. v.]; as alsoاِدَّخَنَ↓, of the measure اِفْتَعَلَ. (TA.)

Root: دخن - Entry: 5. Signification: A2

8. ⇒ ادّخن

Root: دخن - Entry: 8. Signification: A2
Root: دخن - Entry: 8. Signification: A3

دُخْنٌ / دُخْنَةٌ

دُخْنٌ A well-known kind of grain; (Mṣb;) i. q. جَاوَرْسٌ; (Ṣ;) [i. e.] the grain of the جاورس: (JK, M, Ḳ:) or a certain grain smaller than that, very smooth, cold, dry, and constipating: (M, Ḳ:) [a species of millet; the holcus saccharatus of Linn.; holcus dochna of Forskål; sorghum saccharatum of Delile: and the holcus spicatus of Linn.: and the panicum miliaceum of Linn.: (Delile's “Flor. Aegypt. Illustr.,” no. 164: no. 57: and no. 79:)] n. un. with ة {دُخْنَةٌ}; signifying a single grain thereof. (Mṣb.)


دَخَنٌ

دَخَنٌ inf. n. of دَخِنَ [q. v.]. (JK, Mṣb.)

Root: دخن - Entry: دَخَنٌ Signification: A2

[Hence,] † The appearance, or appearing, of conflict and faction, sedition, discord, or the like. (TA.)

Root: دخن - Entry: دَخَنٌ Signification: A3

Hence also, i. e. from دَخَنُ النَّارِ and الطَّبِيخِ, (TA,)A state of alteration for the worse, of intellect, and of religion, and of the grounds of pretension to respect or honour. (Ḳ, TA.)

Root: دخن - Entry: دَخَنٌ Signification: A4

Also i. q. دُخَانٌ. (Ṣ, Ḳ.) See this word in two places.

Root: دخن - Entry: دَخَنٌ Signification: A5

[Hence,]A duskiness, or dinginess, inclining to blackness; (Ṣ TA;) as alsoدُخْنَةٌ↓; (JK, Ṣ, Ḳ;) [like the colour of smoke, (see 1, last signification but one,) or] like the colour of iron: (TA:) it is in a sheep, (Ṣ,) or a horse and similar beasts, or in a garment, (TA,) and in a sword: (Ṣ, A, TA:) in this last it means ‡ a blackness that appears in the broad side, by reason of its great brightness: (A, TA:) or the diversified wavy marks, streaks, or grain, (syn. فِرِنْد,) of a sword. (Ḳ.)

Root: دخن - Entry: دَخَنٌ Signification: A6

Also ‡ Rancour, malevolence, malice, or spite. (JK, Ḳ, TA.)

Root: دخن - Entry: دَخَنٌ Signification: A7

And ‡ Badness, corruptness, or wickedness, of nature or disposition. (Ḳ, TA.)


دَخِنٌ

دَخِنٌ [applied to food, and to flesh-meat, Infected with smoke: see دَخِنَ.]

Root: دخن - Entry: دَخِنٌ Signification: A2

[And hence,] applied to wine, or beverage, † Altered for the worse in odour. (TA.)

Root: دخن - Entry: دَخِنٌ Signification: A3

And رَجُلٌ دَخِنُ الخُلُقِ (Sh, JK, Ṣ)A man bad, corrupt, or wicked, in respect of nature, or disposition. (Sh, JK, TA.) [See also دَاخِنٌ.]


دُخْنَةٌ

دُخْنَةٌ i. q. ذَرِيَرةٌ [which generally means Particles of calamus aromaticus], (Ḳ,) or the like thereof, (Ṣ,) [i. e.] incense, or a substance for fumigation, (بَخُورٌ, JK, Mgh, Mṣb,) [of any kind, and particularly] like ذريزة, (Mgh, Mṣb,) with which houses, or tents, or chambers, (Ṣ Mgh, Mṣb, Ḳ,) or a house, or tent, or chamber, (JK, M,) and clothes, (M,) are fumigated. (JK, Ṣ M, Mgh, Mṣb, Ḳ.)

Root: دخن - Entry: دُخْنَةٌ Dissociation: B
Root: دخن - Entry: دُخْنَةٌ Signification: B2

[Hence, app.,] أَبُو دُخْنَةِ or ابو دُخْنَةَ A certain bird, (IB, Ḳ, TA,) the colour of which is like that of the قُبَّرَةٌ [or lark]: so says IB: or, as in some MSS., like the colour termed الغُبْرَة [i. e. dust-colour]. (TA.)


دُخْنَآءٌ

دُخْنَآءٌ A species of عُصْفُور [or sparrow]; as alsoدُخْنَانٌ↓. (Ḳ,* TA.)


دَخْنَانٌ

يَوْمٌ دَخْنَانٌA hot, or an intensely hot, day: (JK, Ḳ, TA:) and لَيْلَةٌ دَخْنَانَةٌa night intensely hot, (JK, TA,) in which the heat is such as takes away the breath; (TA;) as though it were overspread by smoke: (JK, TA:) or a dusky, or dingy, night, inclining to blackness. (Ṣ.)


دُخْنَانٌ

دُخْنَانٌ: see دُخْنَآءٌ.


دُخَانٌ

دُخَانٌ (Ṣ, Mṣb, Ḳ) andدُخَّانٌ↓, (Ḳ,) which latter is the form [now] commonly used, (TA,) andدَخَنٌ↓, (Ṣ, Ḳ,) i. q. عُثَانٌ [a less usual term, meaning Smoke]: (Ḳ: [in the Ṣ it is said merely that the دُخَان of fire is well known:]) pl. (of the first, Ṣ, Mṣb) دَوَاخِنُ, (Ṣ, Mṣb, Ḳ,) like as عَوَاثِنُ is pl. of عُثَانٌ, (Ṣ, Mṣb,) the only other instance of the kind, (Mṣb,) deviating from rule, (Ṣ,) and دَوَاخِينُ, [also irreg., and both pls. of mult.,] and أَدْخِنَةٌ [a pl. of pauc.]. (Ḳ.) [Hence, the tribes of] Ghanee and Báhileh (غَنِىّ and بَاهِلَة) were called اِبْنَا دُخَانٍ [The two sons of smoke] (Ṣ, Ḳ, TA) because they smoked a party of men (دَخَّنُوا عَلَى قَوْمٍ) in a cave and so killed them. (TA.) Hence also, (Ṣ,) هُدْنَةٌ عَلَى دَخَنٍ↓A calm [or truce] for a cause other than reconciliation: (Ṣ, Ḳ, TA: [in the CK, لَغَلَبَةٍ is erroneously put for لِعِلَّةٍ:]) or † [as a cloak] upon [i. e. concealing] inward corruptness; from دَخِنَتِ النَّارُ explained above; [see 1;] (Mṣb;) [for] IAth says that it likens inward corruptness beneath outward rectitude to the smoke [or smoking] of fresh, or moist, firewood: (TA:) or † upon latent rancour or malevolence: (Ṣ and TA in art. هدن:) but AʼObeyd, in explaining a trad. in which it occurs, takes it from دَخَنٌ as signifying “a duskiness, or dinginess, inclining to blackness,” in the colour of a beast or of a garment; for he says that it means [a case in which] the mutual love of two parties will not become pure, like the duskiness, or dinginess, that is in the colour of a beast. (TA.)

Root: دخن - Entry: دُخَانٌ Signification: A2

دُخَانٌ is also used by the Arabs for † Evil, or mischief, when it arises; as in the saying, كَانَ بَيْنَنَا أَمْرٌ ٱرْتَفَعَ لَهُ دُخَانٌ [There was between us an affair that had evil, or mischief, arising in consequence of it]. (TA.)

Root: دخن - Entry: دُخَانٌ Signification: A3

It also means † Dearth, drought, sterility, or unfruitfulness; and hunger: and so it has been said to mean in the Ḳur xliv. 9: for it is said that the hungry [once] saw smoke (دُخَان) between him and the sky: or hunger is thus called because of the dryness of the earth in drought, and the rising of the dust, which is likened to دُخَان [properly so termed]. (TA.)

Root: دخن - Entry: دُخَانٌ Signification: A4

[In the present day, it is also applied, but generally pronounced دُخَّان↓, to Tobacco; nicotiana tabacum of Linn.]


دُخَّانٌ

دُخَّانٌ: see the next preceding paragraph, first and last sentences.


دَاخِنٌ

دَاخِنٌ Firewood producing دُخَان [or smoke]. (TA.)

Root: دخن - Entry: دَاخِنٌ Signification: A2

[Hence,] خُلُقٌ دَاخِنٌA bad, corrupt, or wicked, nature or disposition. (TA.) [See also دَخِنٌ.]


دَاخِنَةٌ

دَاخِنَةٌ [A chimney;] a hole, or perforation, [or hollow channel,] in which are pipes of baked clay (إِرْدَبَّات) [for the passage of smoke]: (JK:) its pl. is دَوَاخِنُ, (TA,) signifying holes, or apertures, [or hollow channels, for the passage of smoke,] made over frying-pans and the fire-places of baths, &c.; (Ḳ, TA;) called by the vulgar مَدَاخِنُ [pl. of مَدْخَنَةٌ↓]. (TA.)


أَدْخَنُ

أَدْخَنُ, applied to a ram [&c.], (JK, Ṣ,) Of a dusky, or dingy, colour, inclining to blackness: (JK, Ṣ, Ḳ:) fem. دَخْنَآءُ. (Ṣ, Ḳ.)


[مَدْخَنٌ]

[A place of smoke.]


مَدْخَنَةٌ

مَدْخَنَةٌ: see دَاخِنَةٌ.


مِدْخَنَةٌ

مِدْخَنَةٌ A vessel for fumigation; i. q. مِجْمَرَةٌ: (Ḳ:) or differing from the مِجْمَرَة, [app. in being made only of baked clay,] and not disapproved; whereas the مجمرة is disapproved, because generally of silver: (Mgh in art جمر:) pl. مَدَاخِنُ. (TA.)


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