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مَحَلٌّ

Root: حل

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مَحَلٌّ A place where a person or party alights, or descends and stops or sojourns or abides or lodges or settles; a place of alighting, or descending and stopping &c.; or simply where one takes up his abode, abides, lodges, or settles; as also مَحِلٌّ : and مَحَلَّةٌ and حِلَّةٌ , or , signify a [particular, or special,] place of alighting, or descending and stopping &c., of a people or party: the pl. of مَحَلٌّ is مَحَالُّ; and the pl. of مَحَلَّةٌ is مَحَلَّاتٌ. You say, هُوَ فِى صِدْقٍ, i. e. فى صِدْقٍ [He is in a good, or an excellent, place of alighting, &c.].
2 [Hence, A place, in a general sense. Thus in the phrase, حَلَّ مَحَلَّ كَذَا: see 1. And in the phrases, used in grammar, مَحَلُّهُ الرَّفْعَ Its place in construction is that of the nominative case; and مَرْفُوعٌ مَحَلًّا Virtually in the nominative case by reason of the place which it occupies in construction; and the like.]
3 [Hence, also,] a term applied by Ks to An adverbial noun of place or time. (T voce ظَرْفٌ.)
4 [Hence, also, A person, considered as one in whom some quality has place.] You say, هُوَ مَحَلٌّ لِأَنْ يُقَالَ فِيهِ إِنَّهُ لَخَيْرٌ وَعَسَى أَنْ يَفْعَلَ خَيْرًا [He is a person fit, or proper, for one's saying of him, Verily he is good, and may-be he will do good]. (A and TA in art. ان.)

def.2 It is also an Verbal.Noun
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