د • ل • ج

, (S, L, K,) aor. دَلُجَ (S, L) and دَلِجَ , (L,) inf. n. دُلُوجٌ, He transferred the bucket from the mouth of the well to the watering-trough, to empty it therein: (S, K:) or he took the bucket, when it came forth, and went with it whithersoever he pleased. (TA.) One says also, هُوَ يَدْلُجُ بِالدَّلْوِ and يَدْجُلُ بِهَا: the latter verb being formed by transposition. (Fr, TA in art. دجل.) And He transferred the milk, when the camels had been milked, to the [large bowls called] جِفَان. (K.) [See a remark of IF at the end of art. دلك.]

, (inf. n. إِدْلَاجٌ, Msb, TA,) He journeyed from the beginning of the night: and ↓ اِدَّلَجَ he journeyed from the latter part of the night: (Th, S, K:) or the former signifies he journeyed all the night: and ↓ the latter, he journeyed in the latter part of the night: (A, Msb, TA:) or the former, he journeyed in the night, at any hour from the beginning to the end thereof: (Th, from Aboo-Suleymán ElAarábee:) or, accord. to El-Fárisee, ↓ both these verbs are syn., and each bears the first and second of the significations given above: IDrst contends against the assertions of those who make a difference between them, and affirms them to be syn., and to signify he journeyed in the night, at any time, in the beginning or middle or end thereof: therefore, he says, their signification is restricted, in several examples, by the context; and hence, he adds, the appellation مُدْلِجٌ given to a hedgehog: (TA:) [agreeably with this explanation,] 'Alee says,

اِصْبِرْ عَلَى السَّيْرِ وَالإِدْلَاجِ فِى السَّحَرِ

[Endure thou with patience travelling, and journeying in the night, in the period a little before daybreak]. (MF.) [See another ex. voce أَصْبَحَ.]

(K) and أَبُو المُدْلِJ (A, K) The hedgehog; syn. القُنْفُذُ: (A, K:) so called because he goes about all the night: (TA:) or not because he does so in the first part of the night, or in the middle, or in the latter part, or during the whole of it; but because he appears at night at any time when he wants herbage or water &c. (IDrst, TA.)

One who takes the bucket and goes with it from the mouth of the well to the wateringtrough, to empty it therein. (S, K.) And One who transfers the milk, when the camels have been milked, to the [large bowls called] جِفَان. (K.)

(S, K) and ↓ مَدْلَجَةٌ (K) A wild animal's, (S, K,) or gazelle's, (TA,) covert, or hidingplace, among trees: (S, K, TA:) the former word like تَوْلَجٌ: (S:) the د in دولج is held by Sb to be a substitute for ت, and the ت is a substitute for و. (TA.) Also, the former, A hole, or den, of a wild animal; or a subterranean excavation or habitation; syn. سَرَبٌ. (S, K.) And A closet; a small chamber within a large chamber. (TA.)

and ↓ دَلْجَةٌ and ↓ دَلَجٌ, (S, K,) all substs., (S,) A journeying from the beginning of the night: (S, K:) and the first and second a journeying from the latter part of the night: (S:) or thus the first: (A:) and the second, (ISd, A,) or the first and second, (TA,) a journeying all the night: (ISd, A, TA: ) and the second, also, a journeying a little before daybreak: (ISd, TA:) or the first and second (TA) and third (IDrst, TA) a journeying in the night; and this seems to be the meaning intended in the trad., عَلَيْكُمْ بِالدُّلْجَةِ فَإِنَّ الأَرْضَ تُطْوَى بِاللَّيْلِ [Keep ye to journeying in the night, for the earth is to be traversed by night]: (TA:) [and ↓ دَلِيجٌ occurs in the L in the sense of دُلْجَةٌ &c.:] the pl. of the first is دُلَجٌ. (Ham p. 521.) One says also, الدُّلْجَةَ قَبْلَ البُلْجَةِ [Keep to the journeying in the night, &c., before the breaking of the dawn]. (A.) [See another ex. voce بُلْجَةٌ.] Also, the same three words, and ↓ دَلْجٌ and ↓ دَلَجَةٌ, An hour, or a time, or a short portion, (سَاعَةٌ,) of the latter part of the night: (ISd, TA:) or دَلَجٌ signifies the whole of the night, from the beginning to the end. (Th, from Aboo-Suleymán ElAarábee.)

and ↓ مَدْلَجَةٌ The space between the well and the watering-trough. (S, A, K.)

See مَدْلَجٌ.

-A2- and see also دَوْلَجٌ.

A large milking-vessel in which milk is transferred [to the جِفَان, or large bowls: see 1]. (K.)

[A cloud that comes in the latter part of the night]. (A voce بَكُورٌ, q. v.)