Lane's Arabic-English Lexicon

مَرْجِعٌ

Root: رجع

Full Definition

مَرْجِعٌ an Verbal.Noun of the intrans. verb رَجَعَ [q. v.].
2 [Hence it signifies sometimes Recourse. See مَنَابٌ, in art. نوب.]

def.2 [A place to which a person, or thing, returns after going or moving therefrom; agreeably with analogy. See an ex. voce مَحْضَرٌ.]
2 [Hence,] مَرْجِعُ الكَتِفِ The lower part of the shoulderblade, next the arm-pit, [that on the left side being] in the region where the heart beats; as also الكَتِفِ: and مَرْجِعُ المِرْفَقِ [the place to which the elbow returns when, after it has been removed from its usual place, it is brought back thereto; which place in a beast is next the arm-pit: see فَرِيصٌ, in three places]: pl. مَرَاجِعُ.
3 [مَرْجِعٌ also signifies The place, or thing, to which a person, or thing, is referred, as his, or its, source: see مَنْصِبٌ.
4 Also, A state, or condition, to which a person, or thing, returns.
5 And The place, and the state, or condition, or result, to which a person, or thing, ultimately, or eventually, comes. A goal.]

def.3 It is also an Verbal.Noun of رَجَعَهُ.


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