دلج1 دَلَجَ, (S, L, K,) aor. ـُ (S, L) and دَلِجَ, (L,) inf. n. دُلُوجٌ, He transferred the bucket from the mouth of the well to the watering-trough, to empty it therein: (S, K:) or he took the bucket, when it came forth, and went with it whithersoever he pleased. (TA.) One says also, هُوَ يَدْلُجُ بِالدَّلْوِ and يَدْجُلُ بِهَا: the latter verb being formed by transposition. (Fr, TA in art. دجل.) b2:  and He transferred the milk, when the camels had been milked, to the [large bowls called] جِفَان. (K.) b3:  [See a remark of IF at the end of art. دلك.]4 ادلج, (inf. n. إِدْلَاجٌ, Msb, TA,) He journeyed from the beginning of the night: and ↓ اِدَّلَجَ he journeyed from the latter part of the night: (Th, S, K:) or the former signifies he journeyed all the night: and ↓ the latter, he journeyed in the latter part of the night: (A, Msb, TA:) or the former, he journeyed in the night, at any hour from the beginning to the end thereof: (Th, from Aboo-Suleymán ElAarábee:) or, accord. to El-Fárisee, ↓ both these verbs are syn., and each bears the first and second of the significations given above: IDrst contends against the assertions of those who make a difference between them, and affirms them to be syn., and to signify he journeyed in the night, at any time, in the beginning or middle or end thereof: therefore, he says, their signification is restricted, in several examples, by the context; and hence, he adds, the appellation مُدْلِجٌ given to a hedgehog: (TA:) [agreeably with this explanation,] 'Alee says, اِصْبِرْ عَلَى السَّيْرِ وَالإِدْلَاجِ فِى السَّحَرِ [Endure thou with patience travelling, and journeying in the night, in the period a little before daybreak]. (MF.) [See another ex. voce أَصْبَحَ.]8 إِدْتَلَجَ see 4, in three places.دَلْجٌ: see the next paragraph.دَلَجٌ: see the next paragraph.دَلْجَةٌ: see the next paragraph.دُلْجَةٌ and ↓ دَلْجَةٌ and ↓ دَلَجٌ, (S, K,) all substs., (S,) A journeying from the beginning of the night: (S, K:) and the first and second a journeying from the latter part of the night: (S:) or thus the first: (A:) and the second, (ISd, A,) or the first and second, (TA,) a journeying all the night: (ISd, A, TA: ) and the second, also, a journeying a little before daybreak: (ISd, TA:) or the first and second (TA) and third (IDrst, TA) a journeying in the night; and this seems to be the meaning intended in the trad., عَلَيْكُمْ بِالدُّلْجَةِ فَإِنَّ الأَرْضَ تُطْوَى بِاللَّيْلِ [Keep ye to journeying in the night, for the earth is to be traversed by night]: (TA:) [and ↓ دَلِيجٌ occurs  in the L in the sense of دُلْجَةٌ &c.:] the pl. of the first is دُلَجٌ. (Ham p. 521.) One says also, الدُّلْجَةَ قَبْلَ البُلْجَةِ [Keep to the journeying in the night, &c., before the breaking of the dawn]. (A.) [See another ex. voce بُلْجَةٌ.] b2:  Also, the same three words, and ↓ دَلْجٌ and ↓ دَلَجَةٌ, An hour, or a time, or a short portion, (سَاعَةٌ,) of the latter part of the night: (ISd, TA:) or دَلَجٌ signifies the whole of the night, from the beginning to the end. (Th, from Aboo-Suleymán ElAarábee.) دَلَجَةٌ: see the next preceding paragraph.دَلِيجٌ: see the next preceding paragraph.دَالِجٌ One who takes the bucket and goes with it from the mouth of the well to the wateringtrough, to empty it therein. (S, K.) b2:  and One who transfers the milk, when the camels have been milked, to the [large bowls called]جِفَان. (K.) دَوْلَجٌ (S, K) and ↓ مَدْلَجَةٌ (K) A wild animal's, (S, K,) or gazelle's, (TA,) covert, or hidingplace, among trees: (S, K, TA:) the former word like تَوْلَجٌ: (S:) the د in دولج is held by Sb to be a substitute for ت, and the ت is a substitute for و. (TA.) b2:  Also, the former, A hole, or den, of a wild animal; or a subterranean excavation or habitation; syn. سَرَبٌ. (S, K.) b3:  And A closet; a small chamber within a large chamber. (TA.) مَدْلَجٌ and ↓ مَدْلَجَةٌ The space between the well and the watering-trough. (S, A, K.) المُدْلِجُ (K) and أَبُو المُدْلِچ (A, K) The hedgehog; syn. القُنْفُذُ: (A, K:) so called because he goes about all the night: (TA:) or not because he does so in the first part of the night, or in the middle, or in the latter part, or during the whole of it; but because he appears at night at any time when he wants herbage or water &c. (IDrst, TA.) مَدْلَجَةٌ: see مَدْلَجٌ: A2:  and see also دَوْلَجٌ.مِدْلَجَةٌ A large milking-vessel in which milk is transferred [to the جِفَان, or large bowls: see 1]. (K.) سَحَابَةٌ مِدْلَاجٌ [A cloud that comes in the latter part of the night]. (A voce بَكُورٌ, q. v.)