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ديباج

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Arabic

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Etymology

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From Middle Persian [script needed] (dypʾk' /⁠dēbāg⁠/, brocade). See Classical Persian دیبا (dēbā) for more.

Pronunciation

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Noun

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دِيبَاج (dībājm (collective, singulative دِيبَاجَة f (dībāja), plural دَبَابِيج (dabābīj))

  1. silk brocade
    • 7th century CE, Ṣaḥīḥ al-Buḵāriyy, 78:246:
      وَنَهَانَا عَنْ سَبْعٍ، عَنْ خَاتَمِ الذَّهَبِ ـ أَوْ قَالَ حَلْقَةِ الذَّهَبِ ـ وَعَنْ لُبْسِ الْحَرِيرِ، وَٱلدِّيبَاجِ، وَٱلسُّنْدُسِ، وَٱلْمَيَاثِرِ.
      wanahānā ʕan sabʕin, ʕan ḵātami ḏ-ḏahabi - ʔaw qāla ḥalqati ḏ-ḏahabi - waʕan lubsi l-ḥarīri, wad-dībāji, was-sundusi, wal-mayāṯiri.
      And he forbade us seven things: to wear golden signets – or golden rings –, to wear silk, silk brocade, fine silk or silk saddle-pillows.
  2. (figurative) spruce decoration, brilliant fashion, beauty

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References

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  • Dozy, Reinhart Pieter Anne (1881) “ديباج”, in Supplément aux dictionnaires arabes[1] (in French), volume 1, Leiden: E. J. Brill, page 421
  • Freytag, Georg (1833) “ديباج”, in Lexicon arabico-latinum praesertim ex Djeuharii Firuzabadiique et aliorum Arabum operibus adhibitis Golii quoque et aliorum libris confectum[2] (in Latin), volume 2, Halle: C. A. Schwetschke, page 3
  • Kazimirski, Albin de Biberstein (1860) “ديباج”, in Dictionnaire arabe-français contenant toutes les racines de la langue arabe, leurs dérivés, tant dans l’idiome vulgaire que dans l’idiome littéral, ainsi que les dialectes d’Alger et de Maroc[3] (in French), volume 1, Paris: Maisonneuve et Cie, pages 662–663
  • Lane, Edward William (1863) “ديباج”, in Arabic-English Lexicon[4], London: Williams & Norgate, page 843
  • Steingass, Francis Joseph (1884) “ديباج”, in The Student's Arabic–English Dictionary[5], London: W.H. Allen, page 352
  • Steingass, Francis Joseph (1884) “ديباج”, in The Student's Arabic–English Dictionary[6], London: W.H. Allen, page 380
  • Wahrmund, Adolf (1887) “ديباج”, in Handwörterbuch der neu-arabischen und deutschen Sprache[7] (in German), volume 1, Gießen: J. Ricker’sche Buchhandlung, page 644
  • Wahrmund, Adolf (1887) “ديباج”, in Handwörterbuch der neu-arabischen und deutschen Sprache[8] (in German), volume 1, Gießen: J. Ricker’sche Buchhandlung, page 696
  • Wehr, Hans with Kropfitsch, Lorenz (1985) “ديباج”, in Arabisches Wörterbuch für die Schriftsprache der Gegenwart[9] (in German), 5th edition, Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, published 2011, →ISBN, page 375