دسكردَسْكَرَةٌ 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.)