مَعْهَدٌ
Root: عهد
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مَعْهَدٌ
A place in which one used to know, or be acquainted with, or meet with, a thing; a place in which a thing is, or has been, known, or met with; as also
عَهْدٌ ; the latter originally an Verbal.Noun: an abode in which one used to know love, or desire: and, as also
عَهْدٌ , a place of abode to which people return: or a place of abode to which people, when they have gone far away from it, always return: pl. of the former مَعَاهِدُ. One says, اِسْتَوْقَفَ الرَّكْبَ عَلَى الأَحِبَّةِ and عَلَى مَعْهَدِهِمْ [He asked the company of riders to stop at the place where he used to know, or meet, the objects of love; or] at the abode to which the objects of love used to return.
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