一切經音義 88.117

88.117

鞮譯（上底奚反禮記云五方之民言語不通嗜欲不同達其志通其欲西方曰狄鞮鄭玄注云皆世間之別名依其事類耳鞮之言知也今冀部有言狄鞮者也廣雅狄鞮譯也古今正字從革是聲下音亦）。

鞮譯 [Interpreting and translating] (The upper character is pronounced with the fanqie 底奚. The Liji says: 'The people of the five regions had mutual languages that were mutually incomprehensible, and fondnesses and desires that were not the same. To make their intents reach through and communicate their desires: in the western direction [this official] was called didi.' Zheng Xuan's commentary states: 'These are all distinctive names of the worldly spheres, designated according to their categories of duties. The word di [鞮] means to know [知]. At present in the Ji region there are those who speak of didi.' The Guangya states: 'Didi means to translate.' The Gujin zhengzi states: It takes 革 [leather] as semantic classifier and 是 as phonetic. The lower character is pronounced 亦).