'A Dictionary, Persian, Arabic, and English; with a Dissertation on the Languages, Literature, and Manners of Eastern Nations' [‎388r] (780/1826)

p dasfah-dar* The commander of a brigade,
p dastah-dastahy By handsful.
p dastt, A torch pr link carried in the hand. An earth
en bottle, pot, or cruise, a drinking , -cup with two handles. A large
open vessel for washing clothes, or dressing skins. Assistance.
pesh dasti kardan^ To make haste, finish soon,
p t-r’V. dast-ydb) Opportunity, occasion. Procurable.
To find, to have found occasion,
p dast-yur^ An assistant, a coadjutor, a minister,
p dast-ydrah, A bracelet, of gold or silver.
p^U-J dast-ydrJ, Aid, assistance. Defence, patronage,
p dast-yqfty Victory. Opportunity, occasion,
p dast-ydftahy One who has obtained his desire.
v dast-ydnahy \ scourge. A fiddle-stick. A gauntlet.
A letter, a scroll. Letters patent. A necklace, a bracelet.
dastljy A handle.
p dastJjaky A little vessel.
p dustinah (a dustinaj)y&ny female ornament
for the wrists or arms, of gems, gold, or silver. Gloves. A royal
diploma, or charter, an edict or decree of a judge. A fiddle-stick.
p lai-* - J das-khatt (forked dast-khatt)y A signature.
jjcU- daskhat-i khdiss, A sign manual, a royal signature.
A dasr (fromy-O), Driving, thrusting. Piercing with a
spear. Copulating. Caulking a ship. Dnsr, (p\. of dasrd)
Ships. Dusr or dusur, (pi. of jLaJ disdr) Fibres of the palm-
tree used in caulking ships.
a dasrdy A ship impelled by oars, a galley.
A rfas^(from Giving, presenting. Throwing up
(as beasts when chewing the cud), vomiting, expelling. The
sinking of the veins in the flesh.
a das^at (from Driving, expelling.
A dusfdriy Leading, conduct. A go-between, a pimp.
a ijLoJ dusfuty Leading, conduct, convoy, guidance.
a dusk (from Overflowing (water). Dasaky A
pond full of water. The clearness of water in a reservoir,
p jJJksJ dusky A thread drawn through a needle.
a daskaraty A town or castle on the summit of a moun
tain, whether inhabited or deserted. The cell of a hermit on a
hill. Houses of foreigners in Arabia (the natives not being per
mitted to keep them) in which they sell wine, and provide various
amusements for their guests. A palace or superb building sur
rounded by other houses. Plain, level ground.
p daskarahy A town. A castle upon a hill. A litter for
transporting the sick. Name of a town in Persian Irak.
A dusm (from (*~x>), Corking, closing (a bottle, or the
ear). Shutting (a door). Copulating. Anointing (a camel)
with pitch. Watering (the ground) gently (rain). Being ef
faced, obliterated (vestiges). A part of any business. Dasam
(from j*-0), Being fat (meat). Being dirty, reechy. Fat (meat).
Fat. Nastiness, filth. Dam or Dirty (garments).
A U—.O dasmdy (fern, of adsam) Ash-coloured, blackish.
a dusmaty A mean, ignoble man. Ash-coloured.
Pyi»^J dasmary A kind of pulse (for fattening cattle),
p SjA-iJ dasmarahy A French bean. A town on a hill.
Py*~jJ dasmiiy A French bean,
p <U^J dasmahy A sort of pulse,
p J daszcardahy A rolling-pin.
p CJy-O dasuky A small stick, a wand.
a dusum (from j***j^), Being obliterated (vestiges), (pi.
of J dasm) Pieces of fat.
A<ksy*jJ dusumat (from j***!^), Being dirty, filthy,
p 4—0 dasahy A weaver’s clew. Two slender pieces of wood
belonging to an Eastern loom. (Castellus.)
a dasisy The concealing of a stratagem. Treachery.
Roasted, toasted. An incurable stench of the arm-pits.
A —O dasisd’y Concealment.
A dasi^y The place where the neck joins the shoulder.
dusiuit (from £_~0), Driving, expelling. Nature,
disposition. A donative. A platter, trencher, dish. Strength,
power. A city on a hill. zakhmu’d’(last ^aty Li
beral. A table magnificently covered*
A j*-~0 dasinty Much remembered.
p dusin (and O dusinah)y A brazen or earthen kettle,
p dashy Ostentation. A handsome figure. Resembling.
A dashshy A journey, a march. Wheaten broth,
p J—i J dashbady A broken bone. A cured fracture. Dash-
bud, Growing deformed (a fractured bone).
p J dushbal, A kernel growing in the flesh, scrofula.
p J dashty A desert, a plain without water, a forest. A
burial-ground. A chess-board. Dry musk. Name of a city
in Khurasan. pahn-i dasht. An extensive desert.
dasht-i kipchdk. The forest of Kipchak in Tar
tary. Dushty Foul, shameful, ignominious.
p dashtdriy A menstruous woman. (Burhdn-i kdti^.)
p uV-***^ dashtubdn dashtuwun, or dashti-
zcdri), A watch set over sown fields, to drive away cattle,
p dusht-kh’dr. Difficult, arduous, troublesome.
p lAjI?**’ dasht-suwdrdny Those who lead a roving life
in the desert. The open country of Arabia. A cemetery.
p ^ dasht-suzcaruriy The inhabitants of the desert,
p dusht-ndm. Abuse, reproach, bitter sarcasm.
p^-lJ dashliy Wild, uncultivated. Dushti, A leech.
p dusht-ydd, A slanderer, a secret whisperer.
p dashti-ban, A watch set over sown fields. Name
of several places in Persia; also of a place in Turkistan.
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p j ^ dushkh'dr. Heavy, severe, difficult, indisposed. Sor
row. Heavily. Dangerous.
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