دِرَّةٌ

See دَرٌّ.

Also Copious, or abundant, flowing milk; milk flowing copiously, or abundantly: (TA:) and a flow, or stream, or a flowing or streaming, of milk; (S, K;) and its abundance or abounding: (S, Msb, K:) as also ↓ دَرَّةٌ: (L:) or this latter signifies a single flow, or stream, of milk. (Msb.) Hence the prov., لَا اتِيكَ مَااخْتَلَفَتِ الدِّرَّةُ وَالجِرَّةُ I will not come to thee as long as the flow of milk and the cud go [the former] downwards and [the latter] upwards. (TA. [See also جِرَّةُ.])

[Hence also the phrase,] لِلسَّحَابِ دِرَّةٌ (assumed tropical:) The clouds have a pouring forth: plural دِرَرٌ. (S.) En-Nemir Ibn-Towlab says,

وَرَحْمَتُهُ وَسَمَاءٌ دِرَرْ

سَلَامُ الإِلَاهِ وَرَيْحَانُهُ

meaning ذَاتُ دِرَرٍ [i. e. The peace, or security, &c., of God, and his bounty, and his mercy, and a sky pouring forth showers]. (S.) Some say that دِرَرٌ signifies ↓ دَارٌّ [flowing, or streaming; or flowing, or streaming, copiously, or abundantly]; like as قِيَمًا in the Qur'an, 6:162 signifies قَايءِمًا. (TA.) In like manner one says also دِيَمٌ دِرَرٌ [Lasting and still rains pouring down]. (TA.)

And لِلسُّوقِ دِرَّةٌ (assumed tropical:) The market has a brisk traffic going on in it, its goods selling much. (AZ, S.)

And لِلسَّاقِ دِرَّةٌ (assumed tropical:) The thigh, or shank, [of the horse or the like] has a continuous movement for running; synonym لِلْجَرْىِ ↓ اِسْتِدْرَارٌ. (AZ, S.) You say also, مَرَّ الفَرَسُ عَلَى دِرَّتِهِ, meaning (assumed tropical:) The horse passed along without being turned aside by anything. (TA. [See also مُسْتَدِرٌّ.])

دِرَّةٌ also signifies (tropical:) Blood [as being likened to milk]. (K.) A poet cited by Th likens war and the blood thereof to a [raging] she-camel and her دِرَّة. (TA.)

And (assumed tropical:) The means of subsistence [as being likened to milk]. (TA in article غر. [See an example voce غِرَّةٌ.])

And A mode, or manner, of flowing, or streaming, of milk. (Msb.)

-A2- Also A certain thing with which one beats, or flogs; (Kr, S, A, K, TA;) i. e. the دِرَّة of the Sultán: (TA:) a whip: (Msb:) [apparently a whip for flogging criminals; as seems to be implied in the TA: I have not found any Arab who can describe it in the present day: it seems to have been a kind of whip, or scourge, of twisted cords or thongs, used for punishment and in sport, such as is now called فِرْقِلَّة: or a whip made of a strip, or broad strip, (see 1 in article خفق,) of thick and tough hide, or the like: it is described by Golius and Freytag (by the latter as from the S and K, in neither of which is any such explanation found,) as “ strophium ex fune aliave re contortum, aut nervus taurinus, similisve res, quibus percuti solet: ”] an Arabic word, well known: (TA:) [or an arabicized word, from the Pers. دُرَّهْ:] plural دِرَرٌ. (A, Msb.)