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addorungen
دريجان darīǧān
n. dryǧān – ‘darīǧān’ (technical term of astrol.: a section of a tripartite division of a sign) show/hide quotes-
Alcab. diff. IV, li. 246: Et ex hoc addorungen. Hoc est ut dividas ascendens per tres partes
Yama.: ومن ذلك الدريجان وهو أن تقسم الطالع بثلاثة أقسام
- 1 Alcab.
The Arabic term is not documented in Lisān, Freytag, Lane, Dozy and Wehr.
< Arabic al-darīǧān < Persian darīgān < Sanskrit dreṣkāṇa. See EIr s.v. ‘horoscope’. For the doctrine of darīǧān see chapter V.16 in Albu. Intro. JS. The Latin term does not appear in MLW, DMLBS and LLNMA.