مَقْعَدٌ

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مَقْعَدٌ A place of sitting; a sitting-place; as also : pl. of the former مَقَاعِدُ, signifying sittingplaces of people in the markets &c. هُوَ مِنِّى مَقْعَدَ القَابِلَةِ [He is, with respect to me, as though in the sitting-place of the midwife;] i. e., in nearness; meaning he is sticking close to me, before me: denoting nearness of station. See also مَعْقِدٌ.
2 [Hence, a place of abode,] تَرَكُوا مَقَاعِدَهُمْ, They left their places of abode.
3 A time of sitting.
4 The anus [as is shown in the S and Msb, voce بَاسُور &c., and so in modern Arabic; and app. also the posteriors, upon which one sits]: syn. السَّافلَةُ.

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