Lane's Arabic-English Lexicon

مَأْخَذْ

Root: اخذ

Full Definition

مَأْخَذْ [A place where, or whence, a thing is taken: pl. مَآخِذُ.] [Hence,] مَآخِذُ الطَّيْرِ The places whence birds are taken.
2 [The source of derivation of a word or phrase or meaning.]
3 A way [which one takes]; as in the phrase, المَأْخَذَ الأَقْرَبَ سَلَكَ He went the nearest way. (Msb. in art. خصر.)
4 [See also 2, last sentence but one.]


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