مَقْصُورٌ
Root: قصر
Full Definition
2 See also قُصْرَةٌ.
3 مَقْصُورَةٌ An ample or a spacious [house or mansion such as is called a] دار, which is defended by walls: or it is less than a دار; as also قُصَارَةٌ ; and is not entered by any but the owner: such a part of a house is called the مقصورة of a دار, and the قصارة thereof: any apartment (نَاحِيَةٌ), by itself, of a دار, when the latter is ample, or spacious, and defended by walls: a [chamber such as is called a] حُجْرَة, of a house: pl. مَقَاصِيرُ and مَقَاصِرُ. See an ex. voce مُصْمَتٌ. And المَقْصُورَةٌ, and مَقْصُورَةُ مَسْجِدٍ, and مَقْصُورَةُ جامِعٍ, The part which is the station of the Imám [or Khaleefeh] in a mosque: so called because confined [by a railing or screen]: or, accord. to some, مقصورة, thus applied, is changed from its original form, which is قَاصِرَةٌ, an act. part. n.: [and, as used in the present day, that part of a mosque which is the principal place of prayer, when it is partitioned off from the rest of the building: and the railing, or screen, which surrounds the oblong monument of stone or brick or wood over a grave in a mosque; sometimes enclosing a kind of baldachin over the monument. مَقْصُورَةٌ also signifies The chancel of a church: see مَذْبَحٌ.] And مَقْصُورَةٌ and قَصُورَةٌ A حَجَلَة [or kind of curtained canopy or baldachin, such as is prepared for a bride]. And the former word, A piece of ground which none but the owner thereof is allowed to tread.
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