مِسْقِطٌ

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مِسْقِطٌ and مَسْقَطٌ, the former extr. [with respect to rule, though the contr. with respect to usage], and the latter an Verbal.Noun as well as a noun of place [and of time], A place [and a time] of falling, falling down, dropping, dropping down, or tumbling down, of a thing; as, for instance, of a whip, and of rain: pl. مَسَاقِطُ.
2 مَسْقِطُ الرَّأْسِ, and مَسْقَطُهُ, and المسقط alone, The place of birth. You say, هٰذَامَسْقِطُ رَأْسِى This is my birthplace. And البَصْرَةُ مَسْقَطُ رَأْسِى [El-Basrah is my birth-place]. And هُوَ يَحِنُّ إِلَىمَسْقِطِهِ He yearns towards his birth-place.
3 ٱتَانَا فِى مَسْقِطِ النَّجْمِ He came to us at the time of the setting of the star, or asterism; [meaning, at the time of the auroral setting of the Pleiades: see مَنَازِلُ القَمَرِ, in art. نزل.]
4 مَسْقِطٌ also signifies The place of the ending of anything. See سِقْطٌ, in three places.

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