مَذْبَحٌ

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مَذْبَحٌ The place of [the slaughter termed] الذَّبْح: i. e. the place, or spot of ground, where الذبح is performed: and the part of the throat which is the place of الذبح, which is that below the part beneath the lower jaw; or the حُلْقُوم [i. e. windpipe].
2 The chancel of a church; i. e. the part of a church that is like the مِحْرَاب of a mosque: pl. مَذَابِحُ: the مَذَابِح are the مَحَارِيب of the Christians; so called because of the oblations (قَرَابِين) there offered; the مَقَاصِير in churches, pl. of مَقْصُورَةٌ; said to be the same as the محاريب: and the places, or chambers, of the books of the Christians.
3 A trench in the earth, measuring a span or the like [in width], such as is made by a torrent: the channel of a torrent in the lower part of the face of a mountain, or in a plain depressed tract, in width equal to the space measured by the extension of the thumb and first finger or little finger; and sometimes it is a natural trench in a plain tract of land, like a river, in which flows the water of that land: it is in all descriptions of land; in valleys &c., and in depressed tracts: and a kind of river; as though it clave [the earth] or were cleft: pl. مَذَابِحُ. You say, غَادَرَ السَّيْلُ فِى الأَرْضِ مَذَابِحَ [The torrent left in the ground trenches about a span wide].

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