Mashrabaمشربة

دركa single root meaning one thing catching up with another and reaching it. (root drk)

الدال والراء والكاف أصل واحد وهو لحوق الشيء بالشيء ووصوله إليه

Ibn Fāris, Maqāyīs al-lugha · English rendering

درك
Patterns computed · our data

The words of د ر ك that our sources attest: the root's letters in green, the added letters in gold.

27 words7 verbs2 verbal nouns4 participles1 place or instrument1 intensive or elative8 other nouns4 plurals

  • أَدْرَكَhe, or it, attained, reached, overtook, or came up with, him, or it
  • إِدْراكattainment; realization
  • مُدْرِكmature; rational
  • تَدَارَكَthey attained, reached, overtook, or came up with, one another
  • دَرَكthe act of attaining, reaching, or overtaking
The whole family7 groups, by pattern; tap a pattern to see what it does
Verbs7دَرَكَ · أَدْرَكَ · تَدَارَكَ

The root as an action: the bare Form I, and the Forms made by adding letters before, inside or after the root.grammar →

Form I vowels: فَعَلَ (a; the imperfect from the Quranic Arabic Corpus)

  • دَرَكَForm ILaneIbn Fāris
  • أَدْرَكَhe, or it, attained, reached, overtook, or came up with, him, or itLaneForm IVQurʾān ×6library ×56LaneIbn Fāris
  • تَدَارَكَthey attained, reached, overtook, or came up with, one anotherLaneForm VIQurʾān ×3LaneIbn Fāris
  • دَرَّكَthe dropping of rain with close consecutiveness, as though one portion …LaneForm IILaneIbn Fāris
Verbal nouns2إِدْراك · دِرَاك

The action itself, named as a noun (maṣdar).grammar →

  • إِدْراكattainment; realizationautoForm IV · Lane: inf. n.library ×40Lane
  • دِرَاكuninterrupted beating or strikingLaneForm III · Lane: inf. n.Lane
Participles4مُدْرِك · مُتَدَارِك · مُدْرَك

The one who does it, and the one it is done to.grammar →

  • مُدْرِكmature; rationalautoactive, Form IVlibrary ×12Lane
  • مُتَدَارِكuninterruptedLaneactive, Form VILane
  • مُدْرَكthe sources from which are sought the ordinances of the lawLanepassive, Form IVLane
  • مُسْتَدْرَكsupplementLanepassive, Form XLane
Place, time and instrument1مَدْرَك

Where or when it happens, and what it is done with: the m- nouns.grammar →

  • مَدْرَكnoun of place or timeLane
Intensives, qualities and the elative1دَرَّاك

The quality carried far, held as a trait, or compared.grammar →

  • دَرَّاكintensive (faʿʿāl)Lane
Other nouns8دَرَك · دَرْك · دَرَاك

Nouns on other patterns; their meaning is learned word by word.grammar →

Plurals4إِدْراكات · مُدْرَكُون · مُدْرِكات

Broken plurals rebuild the word on a new pattern; sound plurals add an ending.grammar →

  • إِدْراكاتsound plural of إِدْراكlibrary ×5
  • مُدْرَكُونsound plural of مُدْرَكQurʾān ×1
  • مُدْرِكاتsound plural of مُدْرِكlibrary ×2
  • أَدْرَاكbroken plural of دَرَكLane
Why this shape?What each of the 15 patterns does

What each pattern does. The pattern gives a tendency, not a rule: many words have drifted into meanings of their own.

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مَفْعَلَةد ر كمَدْرَكَة

Not in our sources. A possible shape, not a word we can show: the Quran, the library and Lane do not have it for this root.

Place noun with -a. The place noun with the feminine -a. Sometimes it is only a variant of mafʿal; often it names the place where a thing is found in abundance (maʾsada, 'a place full of lions'). So maktab is the place of writing, and maktaba, where writings are gathered: a library, a bookshop. Our summary

But: maktaba is not in our classical dictionaries for k-t-b: Lane and al-Jawharī give maktab ('a school'), none gives maktaba. Its sense of 'library, bookshop' fits the pattern of abundance, but that is our reading of the pattern, not a classical entry. Many mafʿala words are single items of usage (maqbara 'cemetery'), which the grammarians call heard, not formed by rule.

The grammarians on this pattern (4)
  • ما يكون مفعلة لازمة لها الهاء والفتحة … وذلك إذا أردت أن تكثر الشيء بالمكان، وذلك قولك: أرض مسبعة، ومأسدة

    Chapter on what is mafʿala, with the -a and the a-vowel always: that is when you mean that a thing abounds in a place, as you say 'a land of many beasts of prey (masbaʿa), of many lions (maʾsada)'

    Sībawayh (d. c. 180/796), al-Kitāb, ed. ʿAbd al-Salām Hārūn, 3rd ed. (Cairo: al-Khānjī, 1988), 4:94 · OpenITI line 21027–21028 ↗ · on this site · OpenITI RELEASE v2025.1.9, CC BY-NC-SA 4.0

  • و نحو المظنة و المقبرة فتحا و ضما ليس بقياس

    and words like maẓinna and maqbara (with a or u) are not by rule

    Ibn al-Ḥājib (d. 646/1249), al-Shāfiya fī ʿilm al-taṣrīf, ed. Ḥasan Aḥmad al-ʿUthmān (Mecca: al-Maktaba al-Makkiyya, 1995), 1:30 · OpenITI line 223 ↗ · on this site · OpenITI RELEASE v2025.1.9, CC BY-NC-SA 4.0

  • “designate the place where the object signified by the noun from which they are formed, is found in large numbers or quantities” Wright, Grammar I, §247, p. 148 ↗ · on nouns of abundance, maf'ala · 3rd ed. (Cambridge, 1896) · public domain
  • “Nouns of time and place not unfrequently take the feminine form” Wright, Grammar I, §225, p. 128 ↗ · on maf'ala as a variant of maf'al · 3rd ed. (Cambridge, 1896) · public domain
About thisWhat “attested” means here; the sources

Attested means found in our data: the Quranic Arabic Corpus (lemmas, verb Forms, participles, verbal nouns, plurals), the library's words (automatic analysis), Lane's Lexicon (his headwords, the Forms he numbers, the verbal nouns and plurals he names) and Ibn Fāris's entry. Nothing is generated for this list. Meanings are Lane's first gloss in his entry, or else the analyser's gloss (“auto”). Vowelling follows the corpus, then Lane, then the analyser; verbs are given in the regular perfect. Lane's Lexicon thins out after qāf, and a few of his entries cover several roots at once: those roots show no Lane. The patterns, written with ف ع ل, are computed by us.

English: AI translation
  • al-Khalīl · 170Al-darak (الدرك): the attaining of a need or an object sought.

    al-Khalīl b. Aḥmad (d. c. 170/786), Kitāb al-ʿAyn. The first Arabic dictionary, arranged by permutations of the root letters.

    Al-darak (الدرك): the attaining of a need or an object sought. You say: 'bakkir fa-fīhi darak' (بكر ففيه درك) [go early, for therein lies attainment]. Al-darak (الدرك) [also]: the bottom, the lowest depth of a thing. Al-darak (الدرك): one of the seven levels (adrāk) of Hell. Al-darak (الدرك): a dialectal variant of al-darak which is [the term] from 'the bottom' [qaʿr]. Al-darak (الدرك): the liability (laḥaq) arising from a claim/obligation (tabiʿa). Al-dirāk (الدراك): the following of one thing upon another continuously in anything; e.g. 'yaṭʿanuhu ṭaʿnan dirākan mutadārikan' (يطعنه طعنا دراكا متداركا) [he stabs him with successive, unbroken thrusts], one following another; likewise in the running of a horse and its overtaking of wild game. God Exalted said: 'ḥattā idhā iddārakū fīhā jamīʿan' (حتى إذا اداركوا فيها جميعا) [Q 7:38], i.e. tadārakū (تداركوا), the last of them caught up with the first of them so they gathered together in it. Al-daraka (الدركة): the ring of the bowstring that falls into the notch (furḍa); it is also what is used to attach the string of the Arabian bow. Al-mutadārik (المتدارك) among rhyme-letters and differing consonants: that in which two vowelled letters coincide, followed by a quiescent one, like 'faʿū' (فعو) and the like. Al-idrāk (الإدراك): the perishing of a thing... [one says] 'adraka hādhā al-shay'' (أدرك هذا الشيء), i.e. it perished. His saying, Exalted is He — as reported from al-Ḥasan: 'bal iddāraka ʿilmuhum fī al-ākhira' (بل ادارك علمهم في الآخرة), meaning: they were ignorant of knowledge of the Hereafter, i.e. they have no knowledge concerning its matter. And [one says] 'adraka ʿilmī fīhi' (أدرك علمي فيه) [my knowledge of it failed], likewise; al-Akhṭal said: "And my knowledge failed me [adraka ʿilmī] concerning Sawā'a, that she persists in [breaking] the bowstrings [promises], and the muddy drinking-place." Al-darak (الدرك): a rope of palm-fiber tied to the crossbars (ʿarāqī) of the bucket, to which the end of the well-rope is then tied.

    AI translation of the Arabic below

    الدرك: إدراك الحاجة والطلبة، تقول: بكر ففيه درك. والدرك: أسفل قعر الشيء. والدرك: واحد من أدراك جهنم من السبع. والدرك: لغة في الدرك الذي هو من القعر. والدرك: اللحق من التبعة والدراك: إتباع الشيء بعضه على بعض في كل شيء، يطعنه طعنا دراكا متداركا، أي: تباعا «1» واحدا إثر واحد، وكذلك في جري الفرس، ولحاقه الوحش قال الله تعالى: حتى إذا اداركوا فيها جميعا «2» ، أي: تداركوا، أدرك آخرهم أولهم فاجتمعوا فيها. والدركة: حلقة الوتر التي تقع في الفرضة، وهي أيضا ما يوصل به وتر القوس العربية. والمتدارك من القوافي والحروف المختلفة: ما اتفق [فيه] متحركان بعدهما ساكن مثل: فعو وأشباه ذلك. والإدراك: فناء الشيء.. أدرك هذا الشيء، أي: فني، وقوله عز وجل، عن الحسن: بل ادارك علمهم في الآخرة «3» أي: جهلوا علم الآخرة، أي: لا علم عندهم في أمرها. وأدرك علمي فيه، مثله، قال الأخطل: «4» وأدرك علمي في سواءة أنها ... تقيم على الأوتار، والمشرب الكدر والدرك: حبل من ليف يعقد على عراقي الدلو، ثم يعقد طرف الرشاء به.

  • al-Jawharī · 393Al-idrāk (الإدراك): overtaking (al-luḥūq).

    al-Jawharī (d. c. 393/1003), al-Ṣiḥāḥ. Admits only usage he judged sound.

    Al-idrāk (الإدراك): overtaking (al-luḥūq). You say: 'mashaytu ḥattā adraktuhu' (مشيت حتى أدركته) [I walked until I caught up with him], and 'ʿishtu ḥattā adraktu zamānahu' (عشت حتى أدركت زمانه) [I lived until I reached his time]. 'Adraktuhu bi-baṣarī' (أدركته ببصري) means I saw him. 'Adraka al-ghulām' (أدرك الغلام) and 'adraka al-thamar' (أدرك الثمر) mean he/it reached maturity. Sometimes they said 'adraka al-daqīq' (أدرك الدقيق) meaning it ran out. 'Istadraktu mā fāta' (استدركت ما فات) and 'tadāraktuhu' (تداركته) have the same meaning. 'Tadāraka al-qawm' (تدارك القوم) means they caught up with each other, i.e. the last of them caught up with the first of them. From this is His saying, Exalted is He: '(ḥattā idhā iddārakū fīhā jamīʿan)' (حتى إذا اداركوا فيها جميعا) — its origin is tadārakū (تداركوا), the tā' was assimilated into the dāl and an alif was introduced to allow the resulting quiescence [to be pronounced]. 'Tadāraka al-tharayān' (تدارك الثريان) means the moisture of the [later] rain caught up with the moisture of the earth [from the first]. Their saying 'darāk' (دراك) means 'catch up!' (adrik) — it is a noun functioning as an imperative verb, and the kāf is given kasra due to the meeting of two quiescent letters, since its rule is [otherwise] quiescence for the imperative. Al-darīka (الدريكة): the hunted quarry. Al-darak (الدرك), with fatḥa, is a piece of rope tied to the end of the well-rope at the crossbar of the bucket, so that it is what is next to the water and the well-rope does not rot. Al-darak (الدرك): liability (al-tabiʿa), [pronounced] with sukūn or fatḥa. One says: 'mā laḥiqaka min darak fa-ʿalā khalāṣihi' (ما لحقك من درك فعلى خلاصه) [whatever liability befalls you, its discharge is incumbent (upon him)]. Darakāt al-nār (دركات النار): the abodes of its people — Hellfire has darakāt (descending levels) while Paradise has darajāt (ascending levels). The furthest depth [of anything] is called darak or darak [with either vowel pattern]. Al-dirāk (الدراك): continual following-up (al-mudāraka). One says: 'dāraka al-rajulu ṣawtahu' (دارك الرجل صوته), i.e. he followed it up continuously. Dirāk (دراك) is also the name of a dog. Al-Kumayt said, describing the bull and the dogs: "So Dirāk's flanks were disrupted and Harjā turned toward him, for Zāriʿ, with a thrust wide in its side" — i.e. the side of the wound was wide; Zāriʿ is also the name of a dog. One says: 'lā bāraka Allāhu fīhi wa-lā tāraka wa-lā dāraka' (لا بارك الله فيه ولا تارك ولا دارك), all with the same meaning. Mudrika (مدركة) is the epithet of ʿAmr ibn Ilyās ibn Muḍar; his father gave him this name when he 'caught up with' (adraka) the camels. Al-darāk (الدراك): one who attains much (kathīr al-idrāk). It is rare for the pattern faʿāl to come from afʿala-yufʿilu, except that they did say 'ḥassās darāk' (حساس دراك) [keenly perceptive], whether as a [genuine] dialectal form or by [phonetic] pairing.

    AI translation of the Arabic below

    الإدراك: اللحوق. يقال: مشيت حتى أدركته، وعشت حتى أدركت زمانه. وأدركته ببصري، أي رأيته. وأدرك الغلام وأدرك الثمر، أي بلغ. وربما قالوا أدرك الدقيق بمعنى فنى. واستدركت ما فات وتداركته. بمعنى. وتدارك القوم، أي تلاحقوا، أي لحق آخرهم أولهم. ومنه قوله تعالى: (حتى إذا اداركوا فيها جميعا) وأصله تداركوا، فأدغمت التاء في الدال واجتلبت الألف ليسلم السكون. وتدارك الثريان، أي أدرك ثرى المطر ثرى الأرض. وقولهم: دراك أي أدرك، وهو اسم لفعل الأمر، وكسرت الكاف لاجتماع الساكنين لأن حقها السكون الامر. والدريكة: الطريدة. والدرك بالتحريك: قطعة حبل تشد في طرف الرشاء إلى عرقوة الدلو، ليكون هو الذي يلي الماء فلا يعفن الرشاء. والدرك: التبعة، يسكن ويعرك. يقال ما لحقك من درك فعلى خلاصه. ودركات النار: منازل أهلها، والنار دركات والجنة درجات. والقعر الآخر درك ودرك. والدراك: المداركة. يقال: داراك الرجل صوته، أي تابعه. ودراك أيضا: اسم كلب. قال الكميت يصف الثور والكلاب: فاختل حضنى دراك واثننى حرجا لزارع طعنة في شدقها نجل أي في جانب الطعنة سعة. وزارع: اسم كلب أيضا. ويقال: لا بارك الله فيه ولا تارك ولا دارك، كله بمعنى. ومدركة: لقب عمرو بن إلياس بن مضر، لقبه بها أبوه لما أدرك الابل. والدراك: الكثير الادراك. وقلما يجئ فعال من أفعل يفعل، إلا أنهم قد قالوا حساس دراك، لغة أو ازدواج.

  • Ibn Fāris · 395The letters dāl, rā', and kāf [form] a single root, which is the attachment of one thing to another and its reaching it.

    Ibn Fāris (d. 395/1004), Maqāyīs al-Lugha. Seeks each root's original sense (aṣl).

    The letters dāl, rā', and kāf [form] a single root, which is the attachment of one thing to another and its reaching it. One says adraktu (أدركت) the thing, udrikuhu (أدركه), idrākan (إدراكا) [I attained/reached it]. One says: faras darak al-ṭarīda (فرس درك الطريدة) [a horse that is 'darak' of the quarry] when it never fails to catch any quarry. One says: adraka al-ghulām wa'l-jāriya (أدرك الغلام والجارية) when the boy and girl reach puberty. Tadāraka al-qawm (تدارك القوم) means the last of them caught up with the first of them. Tadāraka al-tharayān (تدارك الثريان) is when the moisture of the second rain catches up with the moisture of the first rain. As for His saying, Exalted is He: 'bal iddāraka ʿilmuhum fī al-ākhira' (بل ادارك علمهم في الآخرة) [Q 27:66], this is from this [root], because their knowledge caught up with them (adrakahum) in the Hereafter when it no longer benefited them. Al-darak (الدرك) is the piece of rope tied to the end of the well-rope (rishā') at the crossbar (ʿarqūwa) of the bucket so that the water does not eat away at the rope; and though it serves this purpose, by it the bucket is 'reached' (tudraku). From this also is al-darak (الدرك), the abodes of the people of Hellfire, for Paradise has darajāt (درجات) [ascending levels] while Hellfire has darakāt (دركات) [descending levels]. God Exalted said: 'inna al-munāfiqīna fī al-darki al-asfali min al-nār' (إن المنافقين في الدرك الأسفل من النار) [Q 4:145], and these are their abodes which they attain (yudrikūnahā) and reach — we seek refuge in God from it.

    AI translation of the Arabic below

    الدال والراء والكاف أصل واحد وهو لحوق الشيء بالشيء ووصوله إليه يقال أدركت الشيء أدركه إدراكا ويقال فرس درك الطريدة إذا كانت لا تفوته طريدة ويقال أدرك الغلام والجارية إذا بلغا وتدارك القوم لحق آخرهم أولهم وتدارك الثريان إذا أدرك الثرى الثاني المطر الأول فأما قوله تعالى : ( بل ادارك علمهم في الآخرة النمل66 ) فهو من هذا لأن علمهم أدركهم في الآخرة حين لم ينفعهم والدرك القطعة من الحبل تشد في طرف الرشاء إلى عرقوة الدلو لئلا يأكل الماء الرشاء وهو وإن كان لهذا فبه تدرك الدلو ومن ذلك الدرك وهي منازل أهل النار وذلك أن الجنة درجات والنار دركات قال الله تعالى : ( إن المنافقين في الدرك الأسفل من النار النساء145 ) وهي منازلهم التي يدركونها ويلحقون بها نعوذ بالله منها

  • al-Rāghib · 502Al-darak (الدرك) is like al-daraj (الدرج), but al-daraj is said with regard to ascending, while al-darak is said with regard to descending;

    al-Rāghib al-Iṣfahānī (d. c. 502/1108), al-Mufradāt. Quranic vocabulary, from core sense to Quranic usage.

    Al-darak (الدرك) is like al-daraj (الدرج), but al-daraj is said with regard to ascending, while al-darak is said with regard to descending; this is why it is said 'darajāt al-janna' (درجات الجنة) [the ascending levels of Paradise] and 'darakāt al-nār' (دركات النار) [the descending levels of Hellfire], and because of the conception of descent in the Fire, it was named 'hāwiya' (هاوية) [the abyss]. He, Exalted, said: 'inna al-munāfiqīna fī al-darki al-asfali min al-nār' (إن المنافقين في الدرك الأسفل من النار) [Q 4:145]. Al-darak (الدرك) [also]: the furthest bottom of the sea. The rope by which another rope is joined, so that the water is reached by it, is called 'darak' (درك). And what befalls a person as liability (tabiʿa) is [also called] 'darak' (درك), like the 'darak' [liability for defect] in a sale. He Exalted said: 'lā takhāfu darakan wa-lā takhshā' (لا تخاف دركا ولا تخشى) [Q 20:77], i.e. [you will not fear] being overtaken by liability. 'Adraka' (أدرك): he reached the furthest extent of a thing. 'Adraka al-ṣabiyy' (أدرك الصبي): he reached the utmost of childhood, that is, at puberty. He said: 'ḥattā idhā adrakahu al-gharaq' (حتى إذا أدركه الغرق) [Q 10:90]. And His saying: 'lā tudrikuhu al-abṣāru wa-huwa yudriku al-abṣār' (لا تدركه الأبصار وهو يدرك الأبصار) [Q 6:103] — some interpret this with regard to sight, the [physical] organ, and some with regard to insight (baṣīra); it is mentioned that this alerts to what is reported from Abū Bakr, may God be pleased with him, in his saying: 'O You whose utmost point of knowing Him is [realizing one's] falling short of knowing Him' — since the utmost of knowledge of Him, Exalted, is to know things and thereby know that He is not any of them nor like them, but rather He is the Originator of everything that [one's knowledge] attains. Al-tadārak (التدارك) is used more often in [the sense of] rescue and favor, as in His saying, Exalted: 'law-lā an tadārakahu niʿmatun min rabbihi' (لولا أن تداركه نعمة من ربه) [Q 68:49], and His saying: 'ḥattā idhā iddārakū fīhā jamīʿan' (حتى إذا اداركوا فيها جميعا) [Q 7:38], meaning each one caught up with the other. And He said: 'bal iddāraka ʿilmuhum fī al-ākhira' (بل ادارك علمهم في الآخرة) [Q 27:66], meaning tadāraka (تدارك); the tā' was assimilated into the dāl, and the pronounceability of the quiescence was achieved by hamzat al-waṣl. Similarly with His saying '(ḥattā idhā iddārakū fīhā)' [Q 7:38], and likewise 'ithāqaltum ilā al-arḍ' (اثاقلتم إلى الأرض) [Q 9:38] and 'iṭṭayyarnā bika' (اطيرنا بك) [Q 27:47]. It is read [in a variant]: 'bal adraka ʿilmuhum fī al-ākhira' (بل أدرك علمهم في الآخرة). Al-Ḥasan said its meaning is: they were ignorant of the matter of the Hereafter — its [deeper] reality being that their knowledge came to an end regarding attaining [understanding of] the Hereafter, so they were ignorant of it. It is also said that its meaning is: rather their knowledge will attain that [reality] in the Hereafter, i.e. once they come to be in it — because what is [mere] conjecture in this world becomes certain knowledge in the Hereafter.

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    الدرك كالدرج، لكن الدرج يقال اعتبارا بالصعود، والدرك اعتبارا بالحدور، ولهذا قيل: درجات الجنة، ودركات النار، ولتصور الحدور في النار سميت هاوية، وقال تعالى: إن المنافقين في الدرك الأسفل من النار [النساء/ 145] ، والدرك «3» أقصى قعر البحر. ويقال للحبل الذي يوصل به حبل آخر ليدرك الماء درك، ولما يلحق الإنسان من تبعة درك «1» كالدرك في البيع «2» . قال تعالى: لا تخاف دركا ولا تخشى [طه/ 77] ، أي: تبعة. وأدرك: بلغ أقصى الشيء، وأدرك الصبي: بلغ غاية الصبا، وذلك حين البلوغ، قال: حتى إذا أدركه الغرق [يونس/ 90] ، وقوله: لا تدركه الأبصار وهو يدرك الأبصار [الأنعام/ 103] ، فمنهم من حمل ذلك على البصر الذي هو الجارحة، ومنهم من حمله على البصيرة، وذكر أنه قد نبه به على ما روي عن أبي بكر رضي الله عنه في قوله: (يا من غاية معرفته القصور عن معرفته) إذ كان غاية معرفته تعالى أن تعرف الأشياء فتعلم أنه ليس بشيء منها، ولا بمثلها بل هو موجد كل ما أدركته. والتدارك في الإغاثة والنعمة أكثر، نحو قوله تعالى: لولا أن تداركه نعمة من ربه [القلم/ 49] ، وقوله: حتى إذا اداركوا فيها جميعا [الأعراف/ 38] ، أي: لحق كل بالآخر. وقال: بل ادارك علمهم في الآخرة [النمل/ 66] ، أي: تدارك، فأدغمت التاء في الدال، وتوصل إلى السكون بألف الوصل، وعلى ذلك قوله تعالى: حتى إذا اداركوا فيها [الأعراف/ 38] ، ونحوه: اثاقلتم إلى الأرض [التوبة/ 38] ، واطيرنا بك [النمل/ 47] ، وقرئ: بل أدرك علمهم في الآخرة «3» ، وقال الحسن: معناه جهلوا أمر الآخرة «4» ، وحقيقته انتهى علمهم في لحوق الآخرة فجهلوها. وقيل معناه: بل يدرك علمهم ذلك في الآخرة، أي: إذا حصلوا في الآخرة، لأن ما يكون ظنونا في الدنيا، فهو في الآخرة يقين.

  • Lisān · 711Al-darak (الدرك): overtaking (al-luḥāq);

    Ibn Manẓūr (d. 711/1311), Lisān al-ʿArab. The great compendium of the earlier dictionaries (entry shortened).

    Al-darak (الدرك): overtaking (al-luḥāq); one says 'adrakahu' (أدركه). A man [called] 'dirāk' (دراك) is one who attains much (mudrik kathīr al-idrāk); it is rare for the pattern faʿāl to come from afʿala-yufʿilu, except that they did say 'ḥassās darāk' (حساس دراك), whether as a [genuine] dialectal form or by [phonetic] pairing; and no [other] faʿāl form has come from afʿala except 'dirāk' from 'adraka' (أدرك), and 'jabbār' (جبار) from 'ajbarahu ʿalā al-ḥukm' (أجبره على الحكم) [he compelled him to the ruling], and 'sa'ār' (سأآر) from 'as'ara fī al-ka's' (أسأر في الكأس) [he left a remainder in the cup], the su'r (سؤر) being the leftover. Al-Liḥyānī related: 'rajul mudrika' (رجل مدركة), with the tā' marbūṭa, meaning quick of perception (sarīʿ al-idrāk); and Mudrika (مدركة) is a man's name derived from this. 'Tadāraka al-qawm' (تدارك القوم): they caught up with one another, i.e. the last of them caught up with the first of them. In the Revelation: '(ḥattā idhā iddārakū fīhā jamīʿan)' (حتى إذا اداركوا فيها جميعا) [Q 7:38] — its origin is 'tadārakū' (تداركوا); the tā' was assimilated into the dāl and an alif was introduced so the quiescence could be pronounced. 'Tadāraka al-tharayān' (تدارك الثريان) means the moisture of the [later] rain caught up with the moisture of the earth [from before]. Al-Layth [said]: al-darak (الدرك) is the attaining of a need and its object sought (maṭlab). One says: 'bakkir fa-fīhi darak' (بكر ففيه درك). Al-darak (الدرك): the liability arising from a claim (al-laḥaq min al-tabiʿa), from which comes 'ḍamān al-darak' (ضمان الدرك) [the guarantee against defect] following a sale. Al-darak (الدرك) is a noun derived from al-idrāk, like al-laḥaq. In the ḥadīth: 'aʿūdhu bika min daraki al-shaqā'' (أعوذ بك من درك الشقاء) [I seek refuge in You from being overtaken by wretchedness] — al-darak here means overtaking, reaching a thing; 'adraktuhu idrākan wa-darakan' (أدركته إدراكا ودركا). And in the ḥadīth: 'law qāla in shā' Allāhu lam yaḥnath wa-kāna darakan lahu fī ḥājatihi' (لو قال إن شاء الله لم يحنث وكان دركا له في حاجته) [had he said 'if God wills,' he would not have broken his oath, and it would have been an attainment for him in his matter]. Al-darak (الدرك): liability (al-tabiʿa), [pronounced] with sukūn or fatḥa. One says: 'mā laḥiqaka min darak fa-ʿalayya khalāṣuhu' (ما لحقك من درك فعلي خلاصه) [whatever liability befalls you, its discharge is upon me]. Al-idrāk (الإدراك): overtaking (al-luḥūq). One says: 'mashaytu ḥattā adraktuhu' (مشيت حتى أدركته) and 'ʿishtu ḥattā adraktu zamānahu' (عشت حتى أدركت زمانه). 'Adraktuhu bi-baṣarī' (أدركته ببصري) means I saw him. 'Adraka al-ghulām' (أدرك الغلام) and 'adraka al-thamar' (أدرك الثمر) mean he/it reached maturity. Sometimes they said 'adraka al-daqīq' (أدرك الدقيق) meaning it ran out. 'Istadraktu mā fāta' (استدركت ما فات) and 'tadāraktuhu' (تداركته) have the same meaning. Their saying 'darāk' (دراك) means 'catch up' (adrik); it is a noun functioning as an imperative verb, and the kāf is given kasra due to the meeting of two quiescent letters, since its rule is [otherwise] quiescence for the imperative. Ibn Barrī said: both 'darāki' and 'darāk' occur, and the patterns faʿāli and faʿāl [in this sense] properly derive from a triliteral verb [faʿala], though no triliteral verb [in this meaning] has been used from this root, even though 'al-darak' has been used [as a derived noun]. Jaḥdar ibn Mālik al-Ḥanẓalī said, addressing the lion: "A lion and a lion in a narrow arena, both possessed of fierceness and cunning, and a pounce, and an onslaught, and deadly force — if God should lift the veil of doubt with a claw befitting my need, and an overtaking (darak), then that is the most fitting resting-place to be abandoned (tark)." Abū Saʿīd said: Haffān added to me in this poem: 'the wolf howls and the raven weeps.' Al-Aṣmaʿī said: this is like the saying of Ibn Mufarrigh: "The wind weeps its sorrow, and the lightning laughs within the cloud." He said: then Jaḥdar also said further on that: "O Jamal, had you witnessed my ordeal on a day of battle, dust-darkened and clamorous, and my advance toward the lion, creeping toward it, so that I might overpower it upon the rugged ground" — He said: and Qays ibn Rifāʿa said concerning 'dirāk': "And the owner of the vengeance-debt — time does not overtake him (mudrikuhu) ..." [entry continues]

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    الدرك: اللحاق، وقد أدركه. ورجل دراك: مدرك كثير الإدراك، وقلما يجئ فعال من أفعل يفعل إلا أنهم قد قالوا حساس دراك، لغة أو ازدواج، ولم يجئ فعال من أفعل إلا دراك من أدرك، وجبار من أجبره على الحكم أكرهه، وسأآر من قوله أسأر في الكأس إذا أبقى فيها سؤرا من الشراب وهي البقية، وحكى اللحياني: رجل مدركة، بالهاء، سريع الإدراك، ومدركة: اسم رجل مشتق من ذلك. وتدارك القوم: تلاحقوا أي لحق آخرهم أولهم. وفي التنزيل: حتى إذا اداركوا فيها جميعا ؛ وأصله تداركوا فأدغمت التاء في الدال واجتلبت الألف ليسلم السكون. وتدارك الثريان أي أدرك ثرى المطر ثرى الأرض. الليث: الدرك إدراك الحاجة ومطلبه. يقال: بكر ففيه درك. والدرك: اللحق من التبعة، ومنه ضمان الدرك في عهدة البيع. والدرك: اسم من الإدراك مثل اللحق. وفي الحديث: أعوذ بك من درك الشقاء ؛ الدرك: اللحاق والوصول إلى الشيء، أدركته إدراكا ودركا وفي الحديث: لو قال إن شاء الله لم يحنث وكان دركا له في حاجته. والدرك: التبعة، يسكن ويحرك. يقال: ما لحقك من درك فعلي خلاصه. والإدراك: اللحوق. يقال: مشيت حتى أدركته وعشت حتى أدركت زمانه. وأدركته ببصري أي رأيته وأدرك الغلام وأدرك الثمر أي بلغ، وربما قالوا أدرك الدقيق بمعنى فني. واستدركت ما فات وتداركته بمعنى. وقولهم: دراك أي أدرك، وهو اسم لفعل الأمر، وكسرت الكاف لاجتماع الساكنين لأن حقها السكون للأمر؛ قال ابن بري: جاء دراك ودراك وفعال وفعال إنما هو من فعل ثلاثي ولم يستعمل منه فعل ثلاثي، وإن كان قد استعمل منه الدرك؛ قال جحدر بن مالك الحنظلي يخاطب الأسد: ليث وليث في مجال ضنك، ... كلاهما ذو أنف ومحك وبطشة وصولة وفتك، ... إن يكشف الله قناع الشك بظفر من حاجتي ودرك، ... فذا أحق منزل بترك قال أبو سعيد: وزادني هفان في هذا الشعر: الذئب يعوي والغراب يبكي قال الأصمعي: هذا كقول ابن مفرغ: الريح تبكي شجوها، ... والبرق يضحك في الغمامة قال: ثم قال جحدر أيضا في ذلك: يا جمل إنك لو شهدت كريهتي، ... في يوم هيج مسدف وعجاج، وتقدمي لليث أرسف نحوه، ... كيما أكابره على الأحراج قال: وقال قيس بن رفاعة في دراك: وصاحب الوتر ليس الدهر مدركه ... عندي، وإني لدراك بأوتار والدراك: لحاق الفرس الوحش وغيرها. وفرس درك الطريدة يدركها كما قالوا فرس قيد الأوابد أي أنه يقيدها. والدريكة: الطريدة. والدراك: اتباع الشيء بعضه على بعض في الأشياء كلها، وقد تدارك، والدراك: المداركة. يقال: دارك الرجل صوته أي تابعه. وقال اللحياني: المتداركة غير المتواترة. المتواتر: الشيء الذي يكون هنية ثم يجيء الآخر، فإذا تتابعت فليست متواترة، هي متداركة متواترة. الليث: المتدارك من القوافي والحروف المتحركة ما اتفق متحركان بعدهما ساكن مثل فعو وأشباه ذلك؛ قال ابن سيده: والمتدارك من الشعر كل قافية توالى فيها حرفان متحركان بين ساكنين، وهي متفاعلن ومستفعلن ومفاعلن، وفعل إذا اعتمد على حرف ساكن نحو فعولن فعل، فاللام من فعل ساكنة، وفل إذا اعتمد على حرف متحرك نحو فعول فل، اللام من فل ساكنة والواو من فعول ساكنة، سمي بذلك لتوالي حركتين فيها، وذلك أن الحركات كما قدمنا من آلات الوصل وأماراته، فكأن بعض الحركات أدرك بعضا ولم يعقه عنه اعتراض الساكن بين المتحركين. وطعنه طعنا دراكا وشرب شربا دراكا، وضرب دراك: متتابع. والتدريك: من المطر: أن يدارك القطر كأنه يدرك بعضه بعضا؛ عن ابن الأعرابي؛ وأنشد أعرابي يخاطب ابنه: وا بأبي أرواح نشر فيكا، كأنه وهن لمن يدريكا ... إذا الكرى سناته يغشيكا، ريح خزامى ولي الركيكا، ... أقلع لما بلغ التدريكا واستدرك الشيء بالشيء: حاول إدراكه به، واستعمل هذا الأخفش في أجزاء العروض فقال: لأنه لم ينقص من الجزء شيء فيستدركه. وأدرك الشيء: بلغ وقته وانتهى. وأدرك أيضا: فني. وقوله تعالى: بل ادارك علمهم في الآخرة ؛ روي عن الحسن أنه قال: جهلوا علم الآخرة أي لا علم عندهم في أمر الآخرة. التهذيب: وقوله تعالى: قل لا يعلم من في السماوات والأرض الغيب إلا الله وما يشعرون أيان يبعثون بل ادارك علمهم في الآخرة ؛ قرأ شيبة ونافع بل ادراك وقرأ أبو عمرو بل أدرك ، وهي في قراءة مجاهد وأبي جعفر المدني، وروي عن ابن عباس أنه قرأ: بلى آأدرك علمهم ، يستفهم ولا يشدد، فأما من قرأ بل ادارك فإن الفراء قال: معناه لغة تدارك أي تتابع علمهم في الآخرة، يريد بعلم الآخرة تكون أو لا تكون، ولذلك قال: بل هم في شك منها بل هم منها عمون، قال: وهي في قراءة أبي أم تدارك ، والعرب تجعل بل مكان أم وأم مكان بل إذا كان في أول الكلمة استفهام مثل قول الشاعر: فو الله ما أدري، أسلمى تغولت، ... أم البوم، أم كل إلي حبيب معنى أم بل؛ وقال أبو معاذ النحوي: ومن قرأ بل أدرك ومن قرأ بل ادارك فمعناهما واحد، يقول: هم علماء في الآخرة كقول الله تعالى: أسمع بهم وأبصر يوم يأتوننا، ونحو ذلك. قال السدي في تفسي …

  • Lane · 1876English, synthesising the classical dictionaries.

    E. W. Lane (d. 1876), An Arabic-English Lexicon. English, synthesising the classical dictionaries.

    دَرَكَ

    1. دَرَكَ, from which should be derived دَرَاكِ and دَرَّاكٌ, is unused, though its noun درك [i. e. دَرْكٌ or دَرَكٌ, which latter (the more common of the two) see below,] is used. (IB.) [دَرَكَ in Golius's Lex. is evidently a mistranscription for دَارَكَ.]

    تَدْرِيكٌ

    2. تَدْرِيكٌ The dropping of rain with close consecutiveness, (IAar, K, TA,) as though one portion thereof overtook another. (IAar, TA.) You say, درّك المَطَرُ The rain dropped with close consecutiveness. (TK.) Also The hanging a rope upon the neck of a person in coupling him with another. (AA.)

    دِرَاكٌ

    3. دِرَاكٌ The making one part, or portion, of a thing, (K, TA,) whatever it be, (TA,) to follow another uninterruptedly; (K, TA;) as also مُدَارَكَةٌ: (TA:) both [are inf. ns. of دارك, and] signify the same [i. e. the continuing, or carrying on, a thing uninterruptedly]: (S:) مُدَارَكَةٌ is when there are no intervals between things following one another; like مُوَاصَلَةٌ: otherwise it is مُوَاتَرَةٌ. (S and K in art. وتر.) You say, of a man, دارك صَوْتَهُ He continued his voice uninterruptedly. (S, TA.) Also A horse's overtaking, or coming up with, wild animals (K, TA) &c. (TA.) You say, of a horse, دارك الوَحْشَ, inf. n. دِرَاكٌ, He overtook, or come up with, the wild animals. (TK.) [Thus it is syn. with ادرك.] In the saying, لَا بَارَكَ ٱللّٰهُ فِيهِ وَلَا دَارَكَ, (S, K, * TA,) it is an imitative sequent: (K, TA:) all these verbs have one and the same meaning. (S, TA. [See تَارَكَ.])

    ادركهُ

    4. ادركهُ, (S Msb, K, &c.,) inf. n. إِدْرَاكٌ (S, Msb) and مُدْرَكٌ, (Msb,) He, or it, attained, reached, overtook, or came up with, him, or it: (S, K, TA:) or sought, or pursued, and attained, reached, &c., him, or it: (Msb:) [داركهُ, also, signifies the same, as shown above:] and تداركهُ, likewise, [of which اِدَّراَكَهُ is a variation,] is syn. with ادركهُ; (Jel in lxviii. 49, and KL, * and TA; *) and so is اِدَّرَكَهُ. (TA.) You say, أَدْرَكْتُ الرَّجُلَ and اِدَّرَكْتُهُ [I attained, reached, overtook, or came up with, the man]. (IJ, TA.) And مَشَيْتُ حَتَّى أَدْرَكْتُهُ I walked, or went on foot, until I overtook him, or came up with him. (S, TA.) And عِشْتُ حَتَّى أَدْرَكْتُ زَمَانَهُ I lived until I attained, or reached, his time. (S, TA.) And أَدْرَكْتُ الفَائِتَ [I attained, &c., that which was passing away]. (Mgh.) And ادركهُ بِمَكْرُوهٍ [He overtook him, or visited him, with some displeasing, or abominable, or evil, action]. (M and K in art. وتر. See also 6, in the latter half of the paragraph, in two places: and see 10, first sentence.) And أَدْرَكَنِى الجَهْدُ [Difficulty, or distress, &c., overtook me, ensued to me, or came upon me]; a phrase similar to بَلَغَنِى الكِبَرُ in the Kur [iii. 35]: and so أَدْرَكْتُ الجَهْدَ [I came to experience difficulty, &c.]; like بَلَغْتُ مِنَ الكِبَرِ عُتِيًا in the Kur [xix. 9]. (Er-Rághib, TA in art. بلغ.) [Hence, He attained, obtained, or acquired, it; and so تداركهُ, as is shown in the KL; so too ادرك بِهِ, for one says,] ادرك بِدَمِهِ [He obtained revenge, or retaliation, for his blood]. (S in art. وتر.) [Hence also, He perceived it; attained a knowledge of it by any of the senses.] You say, أَدْرَكْتُهُ بِبَصَرِى [I perceived it by my sight;] I saw it. (S, TA.) لَا تُدْرِكُهُ الأَبْصَارُ, in the Kur [vi. 103], means, accord. to some, The eyes [perceive him not]: accord. to others, the mental perception comprehendeth not [or attaineth not the knowledge of] the real nature of his hallowed essence. (TA.) You say also, ادرك عِلْمِى, meaning My knowledge comprehended that such a thing was a fact. (TA.) [Hence likewise, as an intrans. v., or a trans. v. of which the objective complement is understood,] ادرك also signifies [He attained a knowledge of the uttermost of a thing; or] his knowledge attained the uttermost of a thing. (TA.) See also 6, in the former half of the paragraph, in two places. Also It (a thing) attained its proper time: (Msb, K:) it attained its final time or state, or its utmost point or degree. (K.) [He (a boy, and a beast,) attained his perfect, ripe, or mature, state; and in like manner ادركت is said of a girl: or it is like ادرك as meaning] he (a boy) attained to puberty, (S, Msb,) or to the utmost term of youth. (TA.) It (fruit) attained to ripeness, or maturity; became ripe, or mature; (S Msb;) attained its time, and its utmost degree of ripeness or maturity. (T, TA.) And ادركت القِدْرُ The cooking-pot attained its proper time [for the cooking of its contents]. (TA.) And ادركت الخَمْرُ [The wine became mature]. (Msb and K in art. خمر.) And ادرك مَآءُ الرَّكِيَّةِ The water of the well reached its دَرَك, i. e. its bottom (Aboo-' Adnán, TA.) Also It passed away and came to an end; came to nought; became exhausted; or failed entirely: (S, K:) said in this sense of flour, or meal: (S:) and thus it has been explained as used in the Kur [xxvii. 68], where it is said, [accord. to one reading,] بَلْ أَدْرَكَ عِلْمُهُمْ فِى الآخِرَةِ [Nay, their knowledge hath entirely failed respecting the world to come]. (TA. [See also 6.]) Sh mentions this signification as heard by him on no other authority than that of Lth; and Az asserts it to be incorrect: but it has been authorized by more than one of the leading lexicologists, and the language of the Arabs does not forbid it; for it is said of flour, or meal, and in this case can only mean it came to its end, and entirely failed, or became exhausted; and fruits, when they are ripe (إِذَا أَدْرَكْتْ) are exposed to coming to nought, and so is everything that has attained to its extreme term; so that the signification of “ coming to nought ” is one of the necessary adjuncts of the meaning of إِدْرَاكٌ. (TA.) [In like manner,] اِدَّرَكَ signifies It (a thing) continued uninterruptedly and then come to nought: (IJ, TA:) and agreeably with this signification is explained the saying in the Kur [xxvi. 61], إِنَّا لَمُدَّرِكُونَ [Verily we are coming to nought, by those who read thus instead of لَمُدْرَكُونَ being overtaken]. (TA.) You say also, ادرك الثَّمَنُ المُشْتَرِىَ, meaning [The payment of] the price was, or became, obligatory on the purchaser: this is an ideal reaching, or overtaking. (Msb.)

    تدّاركوا

    6. تدّاركوا i. q. تلاحقوا (S) [i. e.] They attained, reached, overtook, or came up with, one another; as also اِدَّارَكُوا, and اِدَّرَكُوا; (Sh, TA;) [or] the last of them attained, reached, overtook, or came up with, the first of them. (S Msb, K, TA.) Hence, in the Kur [vii. 36], (S,) حَتَّى إِذَا ٱدَّارَكُوا فِيهَا جَمِيعًا [Until, when they have overtaken one another, or have successively arrived, therein, all together]: originally تَدَارَكُوا. (S, K. *) And تدارك الثَّرِيَانَ [The two moistures reached each other; (like اِلْتَقَى الثَّرَيَانِ;) meaning] the moisture of the rain reached the moisture of the earth. (S.) And [hence] تدارك signifies [It continued, or was carried on, uninterruptedly; it was closely consecutive in its parts, or portions;] one part, or portion, of it, followed, or was made to follow, another uninterruptedly; said of anything. (TA.) You say, تدارك السَّيْرُ [The course, or pace, or journeying, continued uninterruptedly]. (S and TA in art. حفد, &c.) And تداركت الأَخْبَارُ The tidings followed one another closely. (TA.) [Hence, when said of knowledge, meaning, accord. to Fr, It continued unbroken in its sequence or concatenation.] بَلِ ٱدَّرَاكَ عِلْمُهُمْ فِى الآخِرَةِ (K, TA,) in the Kur [xxvii. 68], (TA,) [virtually] means Nay, they have no knowledge respecting the world to come: (K, TA:) or, as IJ says, their knowledge is hasty, and slight, and not on a sure footing, &c.: Az says that AA read بَلْ أَدْرَكَ [of which an explanation has been given above (see 4)]: that I'Ab is related to have read بَلَىآأَدْرَكَ [&c., i. e. Yea, hath their knowledge reached its end &c.?], as interrogatory, and without tesh-deed: and that, accord. to the reading بل ادّراك Fr says that the proper meaning is, [Nay,] hath their knowledge continued unbroken so as to extend to the knowledge of the world to come, whether it will be or not be? wherefore is added, بَلْ هُمْ فِى شَكٍّ مِنْهَا بَلْ هُمْ مِنْهَا عَمُونَ: he says also that Ubeí read, أَمْ تَدَارَكَ; and that the Arabs substitute بَلْ for أَمْ, and أَمْ for بَلْ, when a passage begins with an interrogation: but this explanation of Fr is not clear; the meaning is [said to be] their knowledge shall be unbroken and concurrent [respecting the world to come] when the resurrection shall have become a manifest event, and they shall have found themselves to be losers; and the truth of that wherewith they have been threatened shall appear to them when their knowledge thereof will not profit them: accord. to Aboo-Mo'ádh the Grammarian, the readings بَلْ أَدْرَكَ &c. and بَلِ ٱدَّارَكَ &c. mean the same; i. e. they shall know in the world to come; like the saying in the Kur [xix. 39], أَسْمِعْ بِهِمْ وَأَبْصِرْ, &c.: and Es-Suddee says of both these readings that the meaning is, their knowledge shall agree, or be in unison, in the world to come; i. e. they shall know in the world to come that that wherewith they have been threatened is true: or, accord. to Mujáhid, the meaning of بَلِ ٱدَّارَكَ عِلْمُهُمْ &c. is said to be, is their knowledge concurrent respecting the world to come? بل being here used in the sense of أَم: (TA:) or it may mean their knowledge hath gone on uninterruptedly until it hath become cut short; from the phrase تدارك بَنُو فُلَانٍ meaning The sons of such a one went on uninterruptedly into destruction. (Bd.) تداركهُ: see 4, in two places. It is used in the [primary] sense of أَدْرَكَهُ in the saying in the Kur [lxviii. 49], لَوْ لَا أَنْ تَدارَكَهُ نِعْمَةٌ مِنْ رَبِّهِ لَنُبِذَ بِٱلْعَرَآءِ [Had not favour (meaning mercy, Jel) from his Lord reached him, or overtaken him, he had certainly been cast upon the bare land]. (Jel.) [Hence, elliptically, He overtook him, or visited him, with good, or with evil.] El-Mutanebbee says, [I am among a people (may God visit them with favour and save them from their meanness, or visit them with destruction so that I may be safe from them,) a stranger, like Sálih among Thamood]: تداركها اللّٰه is a prayer for the people, meaning اللّٰه ونجّاهم من لومهم ادركها [i. e. لُؤْمِهِمْ]: or it may be an imprecation against them, i. e. اللّٰه بالاهلاك لِأَنْجُوَ منهم ادركهم: [each meaning as explained above:] and IJ says that because of this verse the poet was named المتنبّى. (W p. 35. [The verse there commences with أَنَا; but أَنَ is required by the metre, and is more approved in every case except the case of a pause.]) It is mostly used in relation to aid, or relief, and benefaction: [so that it signifies He aided, or relieved, him; he benefited him; he repaired his, or its, condition; he repaired, amended, corrected, or rectified, it:] whence the saying of a poet, [Kásim relieved me, or has relieved me, from the slip of fortune with what he pleased of his relieving, or continuous, beneficence]. (TA.) [See also, in the first paragraph of art. دق, another example, in a verse of Zuheyr, which is cited in that art. and the present in the TA: and see the syn. تَلَافَاهُ. Hence,] تَدَارَكْتُ مَا فَاتَ i. q. استدركتهُ, q. v. (S, Msb, TA.)

    اِدَّرَكَ

    8. اِدَّرَكَ: see 4, first and second sentences: and near the end of the paragraph: and see also 6, first sentence.

    استدرك الشَّىْءَ بِالشَّىءِ

    10. استدرك الشَّىْءَ بِالشَّىءِ [properly] signifies بِهِ حَاوَلَ إِدْرَاكَهُ [i. e. He sought, or endeavoured, to follow up the thing with the thing]: (K:) as, for instance, الخَطَأَ بِالصَّوَابِ [the mistake with what was right]. (TK.) [Hence,] you say, اِسْتَدْرَكْتُ مَافَاتَ [I repaired, amended, corrected, or rectified, what had passed neglected by me, or by another; and I supplied what had so passed, or what had escaped me, or another, through inadvertence]; and تَدَارَكْتُهُ signifies the same [in relation to language and to other things; whereas the former verb is generally restricted to relation to language or to a writer or speaker]. (S, Msb.) You say also, استدرك عَلَيْهِ قَوْلَهُ He corrected, or rectified, what was wrong, or erroneous, in his saying: [but more commonly, he supplied what he had omitted in his saying; generally meaning, what he had omitted through inadvertence: and اِسْتَدْرَكْتُهُ عَلَيْه I subjoined it, or appended it, to what he had written, or said, by way of emendation; or, more commonly, as a supplement, i. e., to supply what had escaped him, or what he had neglected:] and hence, عَلَى البُخَارِىِّ المُسْتَدْرَكُ [The Supplement to ElBukháree; a work supplying omissions of ElBukháree;] by El-Hákim. (TA.) [Thus] اِسْتِدْرَاكٌ signifies The annulling a presumption, or surmise, originating from what has been before said, [by correcting an error, or errors, or by supplying a defect, or defects,] in a manner resembling the making an exception. (Kull.) [Hence حَرْفُ ٱسْتِدْرَاكٍ, meaning A particle of emendation, applied to بَلْ, and to لٰكِنَّ or لٰكِنْ.]

    دَرْكٌ

    دَرْكٌ: see the next paragraph, in eight places.

    دَرَكٌ

    دَرَكٌ The act of attaining, reaching, or overtaking; syn. لَحَاقٌ; (K, TA; [in the CK, اللِّحاقُ is erroneously put for اللَّحَاقُ;]) [properly an inf. n. of the unused verb دَرَكَ (q. v.), but, having no used verb, said to be] a noun from الإِدْرَاكُ [with which it is syn.], (TA,) or a noun from أَدْرَكْتُ الشَّىْءَ; as also دَرْكٌ: and hence ضَمَانٌ الدَّرَكِ [which see in what follows]. (Msb.) [Hence,] لَا تَخَافُ دَرَكًا, in the Kur [xx. 80.], means Thou shalt not fear Pharaoh's overtaking thee. (TA.) One says also الطَّريدَةِ فَرَسٌ دَرْكُ, meaning A horse that overtakes what is hunted; like as they said فَرَسٌ قَيْدُ الأَوَابِدِ. (TA.) Also The attainment, or acquisition, of an object of want: and the seeking the attainment or acquisition thereof: as in the saying, بَكِّرْ فَفِيهِ دَرَكٌ [Be thou early; for therein is attainment, &c.]: and دَرْكٌ signifies the same. (Lth, TA.) [Hence, perhaps,] يَوْمُ الدَّرِكَ: this was [a day of contest] between El-Ows and El-Khazraj: (K:) thought to be so by IDrd. (TA.) And i. q. تَبِعَةٌ [i. e. A consequence; generally meaning an evil consequence: and perhaps it also means here a claim which one seeks to obtain for an injury]: as also دَرْكٌ. (S, K.) One says, مَا لَحِقَكَ مِنْ دَرَكٍ فَعَلَىِّ خَلَاصُهُ (S, TA) and من دَرْكٍ [i. e. Whatever evil consequence ensue to thee, on me be the compensation thereof]: in the A, ما أَدْرَكَهُ من دَرَكٍ فعلىّ خلاصه i. e. مَا يَلْحَقُهُ مِنْ تَبِعَةٍ [Whatever evil consequence ensue to it, &c.; relating to a thing sold]. (TA.) And hence ضَمَانُ الدَّرَكِ in the case of a claim for indemnification for a fault of a defect or an imperfection in a thing sold [meaning either Responsibility, or indemnification, (see ضَمَانٌ,) for evil consequence]: (TA in the present art:) or this means [indemnification for evil consequence in a sale; i. e., virtually,] the returning of the price to the purchaser on the occasion of requirement by the thing sold: the vulgar say incorrectly [ضَمَان دَرَك, and still more incorrectly] ضُمَان دَرَك [generally meaning thereby I sell this, or I purchase this, on the condition of responsibility, or indemnification, for any fault or defect or imperfection that may be found in it]: (TA in art. ضمن:) [and in this manner ضَمَانُ الدَّرَكِ may be correctly rendered; for] دَرَكٌ also signifies a fault or a defect or an imperfection [in a thing sold]; for instance, in a slave that is sold. (TA in art. عهد.) [In the KT, الدَّرَكُ is also explained as signifying The purchaser's taking from the seller a pledge for the price that he has given him, in fear that the thing sold may require it: but this seems to be an explanation of the case in which the word is used; not of the word itself.] Also A rope, (M, K,) or a piece of rope, (S,) that is tied upon the [lower] extremity of the main rope (S, M, K) of a well, to the cross pieces of wood of the bucket, (S,) so as to be that which is next the water, (S, M, K,) in order that the main rope may not rot (S, M) in the drawing of water: (M:) or a doubled rope that is tied to the cross pieces of wood of the bucket, and then to the main wellrope: (Az, TA:) and دَرْكٌ signifies the same. (K. [But only دَرَكٌ is authorized by the TA in this sense.]) [See also كَرَبٌ.] Also, and دَرْكٌ, The bottom, or lowest depth, (Sh, T, S, M, K,) of a thing, (T, M, K,) as of the sea and the like, (T,) or of anything deep, as a well and the like: (Sh:) pl. أَدْرَاكٌ, (K,) a pl. of both, of a form frequent and analogous with respect to the former, but extr. with respect to the latter; and دَرَكَاتٌ also. (TA.) And A stage of Hell: (IAar:) a stage downwards: (MA:) or stages downwards; like دَرَكَاتٌ: (B:) opposed to دَرَجٌ (MA, B) and دَرَجَاتٌ, (B,) which are upwards: wherefore, (MA, B,) the abodes of Hell, or the stages thereof, are termed دَرَكَاتٌ; (AO, S, MA, K, B;) [Golius and Freytag give دَرَكَةٌ as its sing.; the former as from the S, and the latter as from the K, in neither of which it is found;] and those of Paradise, دَرَجَاتٌ. (S, MA, B.) It is said in the Kur [iv. 144], إِنَّ ٱلْمُنَافِقِينَ فِىٱلدَّرَكِ ٱلْأَسْفَلِ مِنَ ٱلنَّارِ [Verily the hypocrites shall be in the lowest stage of the fire of Hell]: here the Koofees, except two, read فى الدَّرْكِ. (TA.) [Golius gives another signification, “ Pars terræ, ” as on the authority of the S and K, in neither of which it is found.]

    دِرْكَةٌ

    دِرْكَةٌ The ring of the bow-string, (K, TA,) that falls into the notch of the bow. (TA.) And A thong that is joined to the string of the bow, (K,) of the Arabian bow. (TA.) And A piece that is joined to the girdle when it is too short, (Lh, K,) and in like manner, to a rope, or cord, when it is too short. (Lh, TA.)

    دَرَاكِ

    دَرَاكِ an imperative verbal noun, (S,) meaning أَدْرِكْ [Attain thou, reach thou, overtake thou, &c.]: (K:) form the unused verb دَرَكَ: (IB:) like تَرَاكِ [from تَرَكَ], meaning أُتْرُكْ. (TA.)

    دِرَاكٌ

    دِرَاكٌ [an inf. n. of 3, used in the sense of the part. n. مُتَدَارِكٌ]. You say, طَعَنَهُ طَعْنًا دِرَاكًا He thrust him, or pierced him, with an uninterrupted thrusting or piercing: and شَرِبَ شُرْبًا دِرَاكًا He drank with an uninterrupted drinking: and ضَرْبٌ دِرَاكٌ An uninterrupted beating or striking. (TA.)

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Technical definitions5 · Ibn ʿArabī’s Iṣṭilāḥ, al-Jurjānī’s Taʿrīfāt
  • الإدراك

    إحاطة الشيء بكماله.

    Al-idrāk (الإدراك): the encompassing of a thing in its entirety.

    al-Jurjānī, al-Taʿrīfāt, line 219 ↗

  • الإدراك

    هو حصول الصورة عند النفس الناطقة.

    Al-idrāk (الإدراك): it is the occurrence of the form [image] in the rational soul.

    al-Jurjānī, al-Taʿrīfāt, line 220 ↗

  • الإدراك

    تمثيل حقيقة الشيء وحده من غير حكم عليه بنفي أو إثبات، ويسمى تصورا، ومع الحكم بأحدهما يسمى تصديقا.

    Al-idrāk (الإدراك): the representation of the reality of a thing alone, without any judgment upon it by negation or affirmation — this is called taṣawwur (تصور) [conception]; and when accompanied by judgment with one of the two [negation or affirmation], it is called taṣdīq (تصديق) [assent].

    al-Jurjānī, al-Taʿrīfāt, line 221 ↗

  • الاستدراك

    في اللغة طلب تدارك السامع، وفي الاصطلاح رفع توهم تولد من كلام سابق، والفرق بين الاستدراك والاضراب: أن الاستدراك هو رفع توهم يتولد من الكلام المقدم رفعا شبيها بالاستثناء. نحو: جاءني زيد لكن عمرو؛ لدفع وهم المخاطب أن عمرا جاء كزيد، بناء على ملابسة بينهما وملاءمة، والإضراب، هو أن يجعل المتبوع في حكم المسكوت عنه، يحتمل أن يلابسه الحكم وألا يلابسه، فنحو: جاءني زيد بل عمرو، يحتمل مجيء زيد وعدم مجيئه. وفي كلام ابن الحاجب أنه يقتضي عدم المجيء قطعا.

    Al-istidrāk (الاستدراك): in language, it is seeking to secure the listener's understanding [correcting a lapse]; and in technical usage, it is the removal of a misconception arising from preceding speech. The difference between al-istidrāk and al-iḍrāb is: al-istidrāk is the removal of a misconception arising from the preceding speech, a removal resembling exception (istithnā'), as in 'jā'anī Zaydun lākin ʿAmrun' (جاءني زيد لكن عمرو) [Zayd came to me, but ʿAmr...] — to dispel the addressee's supposition that ʿAmr came just as Zayd did, on the basis of some association and correspondence between the two. Al-iḍrāb (الإضراب) is making the preceding [statement] as though it were passed over in silence, such that it may or may not still apply; thus 'jā'anī Zaydun bal ʿAmrun' (جاءني زيد بل عمرو) allows for the possibility that Zayd came or did not come. And in the words of Ibn al-Ḥājib, [al-iḍrāb] necessarily implies non-occurrence [of the first matter] definitively.

    al-Jurjānī, al-Taʿrīfāt, line 370 ↗

  • المدرك

    هو الذي أدرك الإمام بعد تكبيرة الافتتاح.

    Al-mudrik (المدرك): he who catches up with the imām [prayer leader] after the opening takbīr.

    al-Jurjānī, al-Taʿrīfāt, line 4164 ↗

The same three letters in all six orders. Choose one.

د ر ك

الدال والراء والكاف أصل واحد وهو لحوق الشيء بالشيء ووصوله إليه

d-r-k is one root, and it is the attaining of one thing by another and its reaching it.

Ibn Fāris ↗Lisān ↗Lane ↗al-Khalīl: used ↗Quran ×12

an entry in Ibn Fārislater sources onlyin none of them

Do these six share one core meaning?

About thisal-Khalīl, Ibn Jinnī, Ibn Fāris; the counts across the dictionary

al-Khalīl (d. c. 170/786), Kitāb al-ʿAyn, as transmitted by al-Layth: a two-letter word “turns in two ways”, a three-letter word “in six ways” (masdūsa), four letters in 24, five in 120; “its used forms are written down and its unused ones dropped” (line 975 ↗). The dictionary is built on this: each chapter takes a set of letters and names which orders are used (mustaʿmal) and which unused (muhmal). The ring shows that verdict, from the chapter heading as edited (documented in the text; how much of the book is al-Khalīl's own is disputed).

A reported total. al-Suyūṭī transmits, from Ḥamza al-Iṣfahānī, that al-Khalīl put the possible forms, used and unused, of two to five letters at 12,305,412 (al-Muzhir, line 1347 ↗). It is reported, not found in the ʿAyn. It equals exactly the arrangements of 2 to 5 different letters out of 28 (756 + 19,656 + 491,400 + 11,793,600); the breakdown printed beside it is corrupt, and al-Zubaydī's count, given next, differs (6,659,400).

Ibn Jinnī (d. 392/1002), al-Khaṣāʾiṣ, names the greater derivation (al-ishtiqāq al-akbar): bind a three-letter root and its six orders to one meaning, and bring stray members back “by the subtlety of the craft and interpretation” (line 7536 ↗). He says himself that it does not hold for every root (line 167 ↗; line 7603 ↗).

Ibn Fāris (d. 395/1004) gives each root its own aṣl and treats a rearranged word as maqlūb, “turned round”, and so not a root of its own: “j-b-dh is not a root, because it is a single word, turned round” (Maqāyīs, line 6147 ↗). The ring sets his aṣl for each order side by side; whether they meet is the question.

Neighbours on the ring differ by one swap of two letters.

The critique. A source quoted by al-Suyūṭī calls the greater derivation Ibn Jinnī's innovation, “not relied on in the language” (al-Muzhir, line 6159 ↗).

The other axis. The root's letters also go into patterns that keep their order and change the frame: the patterns (awzān) and the verb Forms I–X.

Across Ibn Fāris's dictionary. Of the 2,300 possible sets of three different sound letters (no hamza, w or y), 1,021 have at least one order as an entry. How many of their six orders are entries:

Ibn Fāris, entries found (1,021 letter-sets)
  1. 1 of 6319
  2. 2 of 6218
  3. 3 of 6164
  4. 4 of 6155
  5. 5 of 6107
  6. 6 of 658
al-Khalīl, orders his headings call used (746 letter-sets)
  1. 1 of 6148
  2. 2 of 6108
  3. 3 of 6157
  4. 4 of 6179
  5. 5 of 6111
  6. 6 of 643

Of the orders al-Khalīl calls used, 2,097 are entries in Ibn Fāris and 267 are not; 17 that he calls unused are entries in Ibn Fāris.

Our computation from the OpenITI texts; heading detection can miss entries

Attested here means found in our digital texts (Ibn Fāris, Lisān al-ʿArab, Lane, the Quranic Arabic Corpus), with w and y kept apart and hamza spellings merged; it is our data, not a classical verdict. English beside the Arabic is AI translation. Sources and grades: docs/research/root-permutations.md.

How each letter is made, in brief, from Sībawayh's and Ibn Jinnī's own sentences (linked); their words are under Reference.

How it is madeSībawayh and Ibn Jinnī · phonetics

English throughout: AI translation of the Arabic

د

ومما بين طرف اللسان وأصول الثنايا مخرج الطاء، والدال، والتاء

From between the tip of the tongue and the roots of the front teeth is the place of the ṭāʾ, the dāl and the tāʾ. Sībawayh, line 26559 ↗

ومما بين طرف اللسان وأصول الثنايا، مخرج الطاء والدال والتاء

From between the tip of the tongue and the roots of the front teeth is the place of the ṭāʾ, the dāl and the tāʾ. Ibn Jinnī, line 982 ↗

ر

ومن مخرج النون غير أنه أدخل في ظهر اللسان قليلا لانحرافه إلى اللام مخرج الراء

From the place of the nūn, except that it goes a little further onto the back of the tongue, because it leans towards the lām, is the place of the rāʾ. Sībawayh, lines 26557–26558 ↗

ومن مخرج النون غير أنه أدخل في ظهر اللسان قليلا، لانحرافه إلى اللام، مخرج الراء

From the place of the nūn, except that it goes a little further onto the back of the tongue, because it leans towards the lām, is the place of the rāʾ. Ibn Jinnī, lines 980–981 ↗

ك

ومن أسفل من موضع القاف من اللسان قليلا ومما يليه من الحنك الأعلى مخرج الكاف

From a little lower on the tongue than the qāf's place, and the upper palate next to it, is the place of the kāf. Sībawayh, lines 26551–26552 ↗

ومن أسفل من ذلك وأدنى إلى مقدم الفم مخرج الكاف

From lower than that and nearer the front of the mouth is the place of the kāf. Ibn Jinnī, line 973 ↗

Sībawayh, al-Kitāb (ed. Hārūn) and Ibn Jinnī, Sirr ṣināʿat al-iʿrāb; OpenITI digital texts (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0). Full credits on each letter's page.

In the Breath of the All-MercifulIbn ʿArabī · metaphysics

English throughout: AI translation of the Arabic

د

Level of existence: السماء الدنيا · the lowest heaven (al-samāʾ al-dunyā)

Divine Name: المبين · the Clarifier (al-Mubīn)

Lunar mansion: الأكليل · al-Iklīl

Futūḥāt ch. 198, line 64682

Spheres of its simples (ch. 2): 10 line 2573 ↗

المرتبة العشرية فحروفها حارة يابسة

The tenfold rank: its letters are hot and dry.

Ibn ʿArabī, al-Futūḥāt al-Makkiyya, line 2582

ر

Level of existence: السماء الخامسة · the fifth heaven

Divine Name: المصور · the Form-Giver (al-Muṣawwir)

Lunar mansion: الغفر · al-Ghafr

Futūḥāt ch. 198, line 64675

Spheres of its simples (ch. 2): 10 line 2573 ↗

المرتبة العشرية فحروفها حارة يابسة

The tenfold rank: its letters are hot and dry.

Ibn ʿArabī, al-Futūḥāt al-Makkiyya, line 2582

ك

Level of existence: الكرسي والقدمين · the Footstool and the two Feet

Divine Name: الشكور · al-Shakūr, the Grateful

Lunar mansion: النثرة · al-Nathra

Futūḥāt ch. 198, line 62083

Spheres of its simples (ch. 2): 10 line 2573 ↗

المرتبة العشرية فحروفها حارة يابسة

The tenfold rank: its letters are hot and dry.

Ibn ʿArabī, al-Futūḥāt al-Makkiyya, line 2582
Meaning by vowelal-Dabbāgh · a visionary claim about a primordial “Syriac”, not historical Syriac

English throughout: AI translation of the Arabic

د

فهي إشارة إلى خارج عن الذات.

It is an indication of something external to the self.

فهي إشارة إلى ما هو قليل أو قبيح ومعه غضب فيهما.

It is an indication of what is small or ugly, accompanied by anger in both cases.

فهي إشارة إلى ما في الذات أو إلى ما هو داخل عليها أو إلى ما هو قريب منها.

It is an indication of what is in the self, or what is entering upon it, or what is near to it.

al-Dabbāgh (d. 1132/1719), al-Ibrīz, ch. 2 §15, compiled by al-Lamaṭī

ر

فهي إشارة إلى جميع الخيرات الظاهرة والباطنة.

It is an indication of all goods, outward and inward.

فهي إشارة إلى الواحد في نفسه وهو ظاهر.

It is an indication of the one in itself, and it is manifest.

فهي إشارة إلى الشيء الذي فيه الروح وليس من بني آدم، أو إشارة إلى الروح نفسها.

It is an indication of a thing that has spirit in it but is not of the children of Adam, or an indication of the spirit itself.

al-Dabbāgh (d. 1132/1719), al-Ibrīz, ch. 2 §15, compiled by al-Lamaṭī

ك

فهي إشارة إلى حقيقة العبودية الكاملة.

It is an indication of the reality of perfect servanthood.

فهي العبد الأسود أو القبيح.

It is the black or ugly slave/servant.

فهي إشارة إلى إضافة العبودية إليك، وقال مرة أخرى: فهي إشارة منك إليك بالعبودية.

It is an indication of attributing servanthood to you. On another occasion he said: it is an indication from you to yourself of servanthood.

al-Dabbāgh (d. 1132/1719), al-Ibrīz, ch. 2 §15, compiled by al-Lamaṭī
Two-letter nucleus7 roots in Ibn Fāris’s chapterد ر

Ibn Fāris groups his roots under two-letter chapters (“the X and the Y and what makes them three”). These are the roots of this root's chapter with the core sense he gives each. Setting them side by side is our juxtaposition; he does not himself draw a shared meaning. His chapter heading, line 9748 ↗

  • درزالدال والراء والزاء ليس بشيء ولا أحسب العربL9749
  • درصالدال والراء والصاد ليس أصلا يقاس عليه ولا يفرع منه لكنهم يقولون الدرص ولد الفأرة وجمعه درصة ويقولون وقع القوم في أم أدراص إذا وقعوا في مهلكة وهو ذاك L9760
  • درعالدال والراء والعين أصل واحد وهو شيء من اللباس ثم يحمل عليه تشبيها فالدرع درع الحديد مؤنثه والجمع دروع وأدراع ودرع المرأة قميصها مذكر وهذا هو الأصل ثمL9765
  • درمالدال والراء والميم أصل يدل على مقاربة ولينL9785
  • درىالدال والراء والحرف المعتل والمهموز أما الذي ليس بمهموز فأصلان أحدهما قصد الشيء واعتماده طلبا والآخر حدة تكون في الشيء وأما المهموز فأصل واحد وهو دفع Q 29 · L9804
  • دربالدال والراء والباء الصحيح منه أصل واحد وهو أن يغرى بالشيء ويلزمهL9838
  • درحالدال والراء والحاء أصيل أيضا يقولون للرجل القصير درحاية ويكون مع ذلك ضخماL9857
In the sister scriptsHebrew ד ר כSyriac ܕ ܪ ܟ
Arabicد ر ك
Hebrewד ר כ
Syriacܕ ܪ ܟ
Ancient South Arabian (musnad)𐩵 𐩧 𐩫
Phoenician𐤃 𐤓 𐤊

Letter for letter, by the regular sound correspondences of the Semitic languages (Arabic keeps several sounds the others merged). This shows how the root would be spelled; whether a related word exists is a separate question, answered in the Semitic lens. Where an Arabic sibilant (s, sh) continues two older sounds, both spellings are shown.

  • Classical lexiconAl-Khalīl lists several senses without ranking them.well attested

    The lexicographers in chronological order, from al-Khalīl to Lane.

    Al-Khalīl lists several senses without ranking them. Darak is attaining what one needs, the lowest bottom of a thing, one of the seven levels of Hell, and a liability that follows on a transaction. Dirāk is one thing following close on another, as in thrusts or a horse running down game, and durka is the ring of the bowstring. Al-Jawharī makes idrāk equal to luḥūq, catching up, and extends it to seeing (adraktuhu bi-baṣarī), to a boy or fruit reaching maturity, and even to flour running out. Ibn Fāris reduces the whole root to one aṣl, one thing joining and reaching another. He derives both the rope-piece darak (by which the bucket is reached) and the darakāt of Hell from it, and reads Q 27:66 the same way. Al-Rāghib pairs darak with daraj: steps counted going down against steps counted going up, hence darakāt of the Fire against darajāt of the Garden. He defines adraka as reaching the furthest point of a thing. Ibn Manẓūr glosses darak as liḥāq and notes the rare intensive darrāk. Lane records that the bare verb daraka is unused and that tadrīk is rain falling in close succession, 'as though one portion overtook another'.

    Draws on: al-Khalīl · al-Jawharī · Ibn Fāris · al-Rāghib · Ibn Manẓūr · Lane

  • Letters & soundIn al-Dabbāgh's letter meanings: dāl points to something external to the self, rāʾ to all goods outward and inward, and kāf to the reality of perfect servanthood.speculative

    What the theorists of sound symbolism would say of these letters. Speculative by nature.

    In al-Dabbāgh's letter meanings: dāl points to something external to the self, rāʾ to all goods outward and inward, and kāf to the reality of perfect servanthood. Read together, these could be taken as a self reaching out to an object outside it and arriving at it. In the data given, Ibn ʿArabī's scheme assigns rāʾ to the Fifth Heaven and gives no correspondence for dāl or kāf. An imsās reading in Ibn Jinnī's manner would treat the order of the sounds as mirroring the order of an event, but the sources supply no specific claim for this root. Mainstream linguistics treats such sound symbolism as suggestive at most.

    Draws on: al-Dabbāgh · Ibn ʿArabī letter correspondences · Ibn Jinnī imsās

  • Root structureIbn Fāris's d-r chapter places drk beside several neighbours: drb ('to be set on a thing and cling to it'), drm ('nearness and softness'), dry ('aiming at a thing in quest of it'), and drʿ (a garment).uncertain

    The two-letter nucleus (Ibn Fāris's own chapters) and the permutations of the letters (Ibn Jinnī).

    Ibn Fāris's d-r chapter places drk beside several neighbours: drb ('to be set on a thing and cling to it'), drm ('nearness and softness'), dry ('aiming at a thing in quest of it'), and drʿ (a garment). He rejects drz and drṣ as productive roots. Set next to one another, drb, drm, dry and drk share a sense of approach and contact with an object; this is a juxtaposition, not a demonstrated common origin. Of the permutations, rkd ('stillness', attested once in the Quran) and krd ('driving off') are recognised roots, rdk is not a root for Ibn Fāris, and kdr is attested once in the Quran but no Ibn Fāris definition is supplied here. No shared meaning runs through the permutations, so Ibn Jinnī's greater derivation (ishtiqāq akbar) does not usefully apply to this root.

    Draws on: Ibn Fāris nucleus d-r · permutations

    • Ibn Jinnī, al-Khaṣāʾiṣ (greater derivation chapter) (link not verified)
  • Semitic kin & loanwordsHebrew dāraḵ ('tread, march';uncertain

    Cognates in the sister languages, and whether the word was borrowed.

    Hebrew dāraḵ ('tread, march'; also 'tread, i.e. bend, a bow') and derek ('way') are often compared with Arabic d-r-k. Aramaic and Syriac d-r-k ('tread') belong to the same comparison. The consonants correspond regularly, and al-Khalīl's durka ('ring of the bowstring') offers an intriguing point of contact with the Hebrew idiom of treading the bow. The Arabic core sense ('overtake, reach') is still some distance from 'tread', so the cognate relation is plausible but not secure. There is no reason to regard the Arabic as a loanword.

  • Quranic exegesisQ 4:78 ('wherever you are, death will overtake you') and 4:100 are read plainly as death catching up with a person.plausible

    How the classical exegetes read the word in the Quran.

    Q 4:78 ('wherever you are, death will overtake you') and 4:100 are read plainly as death catching up with a person. Q 4:145 places the hypocrites in 'the lowest darak of the Fire', which the exegetes take as the deepest tier; al-Rāghib explains the word by its sense of descent. Q 7:38 iddārakū is explained, as in al-Khalīl and al-Jawharī, as tadārakū: the last of them catch up with the first and all are gathered in the Fire. For Q 27:66 (bal iddāraka ʿilmuhum fī l-ākhira) the commentators record several readings: their knowledge reached completion in the Hereafter when it no longer benefited them (Ibn Fāris's reading), or their knowledge failed or ran out regarding it. Q 6:103 ('sight does not reach Him') became a point of dispute. Al-Zamakhsharī uses it against the vision of God, while al-Ṭabarī reports and al-Rāzī argues that idrāk here means encompassing perception, so the verse denies encompassing without denying vision.

    Draws on: al-Ṭabarī · al-Zamakhsharī · al-Rāzī · al-Rāghib

  • Philosophy & kalāmIn falsafa idrāk is the standard term for perception or apprehension in general.plausible

    The word as a technical term in falsafa and theology.

    In falsafa idrāk is the standard term for perception or apprehension in general. Avicenna's psychology describes it as the grasping of the form of the thing perceived. He ranks perception by degree of abstraction from matter: sensory, imaginative, estimative and intellectual. In kalām the question was whether idrāk is a kind of knowledge (ʿilm) or a distinct entity (maʿnā) created in the perceiver. Ashʿarī authors tend toward the second view, and the debate bears directly on the vision of God.

  • Akbarian readingFaṣṣ Ādam uses idrāk at three points in the passages given.plausible

    The word in Ibn ʿArabī's text and terminology.

    Faṣṣ Ādam uses idrāk at three points in the passages given. It says that 'this kind of perception' of the origin of the world's forms comes only through divine unveiling (kashf ilāhī), not through rational reflection. It says that God, describing Himself as the Outward and the Inward, made the world of the unseen and the witnessed so that we perceive the Inward by our unseen and the Outward by our witnessing. It says that the world, poised between dense and subtle, is itself the veil upon itself, so that the Real is not perceived as He perceives Himself. Idrāk in this faṣṣ is therefore always perception tied to a receptacle and limited by it. No Iṣṭilāḥ definition is supplied for this root.

    Draws on: Fuṣūṣ, Faṣṣ Ādam

  • Illuminationist readingSuhrawardī reworks perception (idrāk) as illuminative presence.plausible

    The word in Suhrawardī's philosophy of light.

    Suhrawardī reworks perception (idrāk) as illuminative presence. In his account, vision occurs when the perceiver's light faces a lit object with no obstacle between them. It does not occur by a form being imprinted in the eye or by rays leaving it. The self's awareness of itself is the model case of perception by presence (ʿilm ḥuḍūrī).

    Draws on: Suhrawardī, Ḥikmat al-ishrāq

Neighbouring rootsThe roots that share letters with this one, as a map you can open out