مَثَابَةٌ

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مَثَابَةٌ (accord. to Aboo-Is-hák originally مَثْوَبَةٌ , T) A place to which people return, or to which one returns, time after time; and مَثَابٌ signifies the same: and the former, a place of assembly or congregation: or a place where people assemble, or congregate, after they have separated, or dispersed; as also ↓ the latter word: and a place of alighting or abode; an abode; or a house; because the inhabitants thereof return to it after having gone to their affairs: the pl. is مَثَابَاتٌ; [also mentioned above as pl. of مَثَابٌ;] or it is مَثَابٌ ; [or this is a coll. gen. n.;] or, accord. to Fr and others, مَثَاَبَةٌ and مَثَابٌ are the same: Th says that a house, or tent, (بَيْت,) is called مَثَابَةٌ; and some say مَثْوَبَةٌ ; but no one reads thus [in the Kur]. It has the first of all these meanings in the Kur ii. 119: or it there means a place of recompense or reward for the pilgrimage to the Kaabeh and the visitation thereof.
2 And, sometimes, The place where the hunter, or fowler, puts his snare.
3 مَثَابَةٌ البِئْرِ The place where the water of the well collects: or the place reached by the water of the well when it returns and collects after one has drawn from it. [Hence,] جَمَّتْ مَثَابَةُ جَهْلِهِ His ignorance became confirmed. And كَانَ يَسْتَجِمُّ مَثَابَةَ سَفَهِهِ [He used to wait for his lightwittedness, or silliness, to attain its full degree]: a metaphorical phrase, occurring in a trad.
4 Also The stones that project, or overhang, around the well, upon which the man sometimes stands in order that the bucket (دَلْو or غَرْب) may not strike against the side of the well: or the place where it is walled round within (مَوْضِعُ طَيِّهَا): or, accord. to IAar, it means طَىُّ البِئْرِ; but [ISd says,] I know not whether he mean thereby مَوْضِعُ طَيِّهَا, or the building it [or walling it round within] with stones; though it is rarely that a word of the measure مَفَعَلَةٌ [like مثابة] is an Verbal.Noun [See مَثَابٌ: and see what is said of تَثْوِيبٌ in the last sentence of the second paragraph of art. ثرب.]
5 مَثَابَاتٌ [the pl.] also signifies The foundations of a house.

def.2 See also ثَوَابٌ.

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