دستج
Arabic edit
Alternative forms edit
- دَسْتَجَة (dastaja)
Etymology edit
From Middle Persian [script needed] (dstk' /dastag/, “bunch, bundle; handle”), via the Neo-Persian descendant of which دسته (daste) later also Arabic دَسْتَة (dasta) has been acquired.
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
دَسْتَج • (dastaj) m (plural دَسَاتِج (dasātij)) (obsolete)
- (rare) fagot, bundle, bunch, truss
- a. 929, مروان بن جناح [Marwān ibn Janāḥ], edited by Gerrit Bos, Fabian Käs, كتاب التلخيص [kitāb at-talḵīṣ], Leiden: Brill, published 2020, , →ISBN, 270 (fol. 26r,5–13), page 454:
- قَالَ ٱلخُبْزَرُزِّيُّ:
فَضِلْنِي بِدَسْتَجَةٍ عَذْبَةٍ – فَإِنِّي إِلَيْهَا مَشُوقٌ مَشُوقٌ
أَصِلْكَ بِدَسْتَجَةٍ مِثْلَهَا – مِنَ ٱلْحَلِّ تَعْلُو وَلِلْحَلِّ شُوقٌ- qāla l-ḵubzaruzziyyu:
faḍilnī bi-dastajatin ʕaḏbatin – faʔinnī ʔilay-hā mašūqun mašūqun
ʔaṣilka bi-dastajatin miṯlahā – mina l-ḥalli taʕlū wa-li-l-ḥalli šūqun - Al-Ḵubzaruzzīy said:
Distinguish me by a dulcet fagot … by reason that to it my yearn is roused!
I send you thereon an equal fagot … its unbox, like for many, puts you risen!
- qāla l-ḵubzaruzziyyu:
- (rare) handle, grip, helve
- pestle, mortar’s grip, beater
- a. 1165, ابن التلميذ [Ibn al-Tilmīḏ], edited by Oliver Kahl, The Dispensatory of Ibn At-Tilmīḏ الأقراباذين الكبير (Islamic Philosophy, Theology and Science. Texts and Studies; 70), Leiden: Brill, published 2007, →ISBN, page 139 Nr. 302:
- ويحرك بدستج الهاون نعما ويصفى في منخل ويرمى بالثفل ثم تعاود عليه التصفية […]
- (now) stir it gently with a pestle, strain it into a sieve, and throw away the sediment (that has gathered upon it); then clear it again […]
- c. 1200, يحيى بن محمد بن أحمد بن العوام [yaḥyā ibn muḥammad ibn ʔaḥmad ibn al-ʕawwām], edited by José Antonio Banqueri, كتاب الفلاحة [Book on Agriculture], volume 2, Madrid: Imprenta Real, published 1802IA, Cap. 28, Art. 13, page 316:
- له ساق طويل نحو شبر شكله شكل دستج الهاون لونه إلى الفرفرية وعليه ثمر لونه لون زعفران وله أصل متوسط القدر.
- It [the type of dragonwort] has a leg as long as a hand’s span and is in form like a pestle, its colour nears purple, its fruits have the colour of saffron, its stem is of medium size.
Declension edit
Declension of noun دَسْتَج (dastaj)
| Singular | basic singular triptote | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Indefinite | Definite | Construct | |
| Informal | دَسْتَج dastaj |
الدَّسْتَج ad-dastaj |
دَسْتَج dastaj |
| Nominative | دَسْتَجٌ dastajun |
الدَّسْتَجُ ad-dastaju |
دَسْتَجُ dastaju |
| Accusative | دَسْتَجًا dastajan |
الدَّسْتَجَ ad-dastaja |
دَسْتَجَ dastaja |
| Genitive | دَسْتَجٍ dastajin |
الدَّسْتَجِ ad-dastaji |
دَسْتَجِ dastaji |
| Dual | Indefinite | Definite | Construct |
| Informal | دَسْتَجَيْن dastajayn |
الدَّسْتَجَيْن ad-dastajayn |
دَسْتَجَيْ dastajay |
| Nominative | دَسْتَجَانِ dastajāni |
الدَّسْتَجَانِ ad-dastajāni |
دَسْتَجَا dastajā |
| Accusative | دَسْتَجَيْنِ dastajayni |
الدَّسْتَجَيْنِ ad-dastajayni |
دَسْتَجَيْ dastajay |
| Genitive | دَسْتَجَيْنِ dastajayni |
الدَّسْتَجَيْنِ ad-dastajayni |
دَسْتَجَيْ dastajay |
| Plural | basic broken plural diptote | ||
| Indefinite | Definite | Construct | |
| Informal | دَسَاتِج dasātij |
الدَّسَاتِج ad-dasātij |
دَسَاتِج dasātij |
| Nominative | دَسَاتِجُ dasātiju |
الدَّسَاتِجُ ad-dasātiju |
دَسَاتِجُ dasātiju |
| Accusative | دَسَاتِجَ dasātija |
الدَّسَاتِجَ ad-dasātija |
دَسَاتِجَ dasātija |
| Genitive | دَسَاتِجَ dasātija |
الدَّسَاتِجِ ad-dasātiji |
دَسَاتِجِ dasātiji |
References edit
- “دستج” in Almaany
- Dozy, Reinhart Pieter Anne (1881) “دستج”, in Supplément aux dictionnaires arabes[1] (in French), volume 1, Leiden: E. J. Brill, page 441b
- Freytag, Georg (1833) “دستج”, 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 29a