دَلَقٌ

, a Persian word (S, Msb) arabicized, (S, Msb, K,) originally دَلَهٌ; (Msb, K;) [A species of weasel; according to some, apparently, the common weasel;] a certain small beast (دُوَيْبَّةٌ, S, Msb, K) like the سَمُّور [or sable], (K,) or like the cat, having a long back, [of the coat] of which are made fur garments: some say that it is the [animal called] اِبْن مِقْرَض [q. v.; and this is agreeable with the description of Kzw, who says that it is “ a certain wild animal, an enemy to pigeons, likened to the cat, which, when it enters a pigeonhouse, leaves not in it anything, and abundant in Egypt; ” a description altogether applicable to the common weasel, now generally called اِبْن نِمْس]: some say that it resembles the عِرْس [or ichneumon]: some, that it is the Greek ichneumon (نِمْس رُومِىّ): (Msb in the present article:) according to IF, the [common] نِمْس. (Msb in article نمس.)

[Also, from the same Persian original, in post-classical times, but variously pronounced by moderns, دَلَقٌ and ↓ دَلِقٌ and دَلْقٌ and (now generally by the vulgar) دِلْقٌ; the third being perhaps a contraction of the first, like as شَعْرٌ is of شَعَرٌ, or, as also the fourth, of the second, like as كَتْفٌ and كِتْفٌ are contractions of كَتِفٌ; A certain kind of garment; first probably applied to one made of the fur of the animal so called: then applied to a kind of garment formerly worn by the kádees and other 'ulamà and the khateebs of mosques, (see De Sacy's Chrest. Ar., 2nd ed., vol. ii. pp. 267-269,) and by other persons of religious orders: and lastly, to a kind of patched garment worn by many devotees, reputed saints, and darweeshes; also called مُرَقَّعَةٌ (q. v.) and خِرْقَةٌ. It occurs in a piece of post-classical poetry, quoted in p. 45 of the Arabic text of the vol. of the Chrest. above referred to, necessarily with the ل quiescent; probably by poetic license, or in conformity with the common vulgar pronunciation.]