دسكر
دَسْكَرَةٌ A building like a قَصْر [
q. v.], surrounded by houses, or chambers, (
Lth,
Mgh,
Msb,
K,) and places of abode for the servants and household, (
TA,) and pertaining to kings: (
Lth,
Mgh,
Msb:) Heraclius is related, in trads., to have received the great men of the Greeks in a دسكرة belonging to him: (
TA:) or a building like a قَصْر, which is surrounded by houses, or chambers, and in which the vitious, or immoral, (شُطَّار,) assemble: (
Har p. 140:) or houses of the foreigners (أَعَاجِم), in which are wine and instruments of music or the like: (
K:) thought by
Az to be an arabicized word; (
Msb;) not genuine Arabic: (
TA:) [from the Persian دَسْكَرَهْ, or دَسْتْكَرَهْ:]
pl. دَسَاكِرُ. (
K.)
b2: Also A Christian's cloister, or cell;
syn. صَوْمَعَةٌ. (
AA,
K.)
b3: And A town, or village;
syn. قَرْيَةٌ. (
Az,
Msb,
K.)
b4: And A plain, or level, land. (
Kz,
K.)
