مَرْقَبٌ
Root: رقب
Full Definition
مَرْقَبٌ
and
مَرْقَبَةٌ
An elevated place upon which a spy, or watchman, ascends, or stations himself: [a structure such as is termed] an
عَلَم, or a hill, upon which one ascends to look from afar: or, accord. to Sh, the latter signifies a place of observation on the top of a mountain or of a fortress: accord. to AA, the pl., مَرَاقِبُ, signifies elevated pieces of ground.