درع

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From the root د ر ع (d-r-ʕ). Compare Ge'ez ድርዕ (dərʿ, “coat of mail, harness”), Tigre ደርዕ (därʿ), Tigrinya ድርዒ (dərʿi), Amharic ዲር (dir), ድር (dər), Soqotri daraḥ (“to put on (a garment)”). Nöldeke thinks that the Arabic is borrowed from Ge'ez.

• (Noun) IPA^(key): /dirʕ/
• (Verb) IPA^(key): /dar.ra.ʕa/

دِرْع • (dirʕ) m or f (plural دُرُوع (durūʕ) or أَدْرُع (ʔadruʕ))

1. (uncountable) protective coverings
   1. (uncountable) protective war equipment, armor

      Hyponyms: خُوذَة (ḵūḏa), تُرْس (turs)

   2. (countable) a body armor
   3. (countable) an armor plate held in hand, a shield

      Synonyms: تُرْس (turs), مِجَنّ (mijann)

   4. (countable) something that resembles or is used like a shield (such as human shields)
   5. (countable, of animals) a protective shell or covering (as of a tortoise), armature
2. (by extension) a garment worn by women

دَرَّعَ • (darraʕa) II (non-past يُدَرِّعُ (yudarriʕu), verbal noun تَدْرِيع (tadrīʕ))

1. to put armor on, to armor

• Freytag, Georg (1833) “درع”, in Lexicon arabico-latinum praesertim ex Djeuharii Firuzabadiique et aliorum Arabum operibus adhibitis Golii quoque et aliorum libris confectum‎^[1] (in Latin), volume 2, Halle: C. A. Schwetschke, page 23
• Leslau, Wolf (1991) Comparative Dictionary of Geʿez (Classical Ethiopic), 2nd edition, Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, →ISBN, page 141
• Nöldeke, Theodor (1910) Neue Beiträge zur semitischen Sprachwissenschaft‎^[2] (in German), Straßburg: Karl J. Trübner, page 53
• Wehr, Hans with Kropfitsch, Lorenz (1985) “درع”, in Arabisches Wörterbuch für die Schriftsprache der Gegenwart‎^[3] (in German), 5th edition, Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, published 2011, →ISBN, page 387

From Arabic دَرَّعَ (darraʕa).

• IPA^(key): /dar.raʕ/

درع • (darraʕ) II (non-past يدرع (ydarraʕ))

1. (transitive) to hug

   Synonym: عنق (ʕannaq)

2. (intransitive) to use one's arms to swim

• تدراع (tadrāʕ)

Borrowed from Arabic دِرْع (dirʕ).

درع • (der)

1. armor; body armor; coat of mail

   Synonym: زِره (zere)

   • c. 1011, Abu'l-Qāsim Firdawsī, “Dāstān-i Davāzdah Rukh”, in شاهنامه‎^[4]:

     چنین گفت پیش پدر رزمساز
     که ما را به درع تو ناید نیاز

     čunīn guft pēš-i pidar razmsāz
     ki mā rā ba dir'-i tu n-āyad niyāz

     This Razmsāz spoke to his father,
     "I have no need for your coat of mail."

     (Classical Persian romanization)

   • c. 1100, Mahsatī, fa: رباعیات مهستی‎^[5]:

     گر باد پریر خود نرگس بفراخت
     دی درع بنفشه نیز بر خاک انداخت
     امروز کشید خنجر سوسن از آب
     فردا سپر از آتش گل خواهد ساخت

     gar bād parēr xwad-i nargis bifrāxt
     dī dir'-i banafša nēz bar xāk andāxt
     ēmrōz kašīd xanjar-i sōsan az āb
     fardā sipar az ātiš gul xwāhad sāxt

     If two days ago, the breeze lifted up the narcissus,
     Yesterday, it cast the armor of violets too upon the earth,
     Today, it drew the lily's dagger from the waters,
     Tomorrow, it will make the rose a shield of flame.

     (Classical Persian romanization)

2. (archaic) women's garment or veil