مَلْحَسٌ

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مَلْحَسٌ is a noun of place; [signifying A place of licking; &c;] as well as an Verbal.Noun: and in both cases it has مَلَاحِسُ for pl. You say, تَرَكْتُهُ بِمَلَا حِسِ البَقَرِ, or بِمَلَاحِسِ البَقَرِ أَوْلَادَهَا, meaning, I left him in the places where the wild cows lick their young ones from the membranes in which they are born: or in a desert place, or in a desert, or waterless desert, so that it was not known where he was; because the wild cows bring forth only in the deserts: the former is like the saying بِمَبَاحِثِ البَقَرِ; and is that which ISd holds to be the right: in the latter, ملاحس is an Verbal.Noun, in the pl. form, which is strange; because it governs اولاد in the accus. case; and a prefixed noun [مَوَاضِع] is understood before it: some relate the saying differently, thus, بِمَلْحَسِ البَقَرِ أَوْلَادَهَا, meaning, بِمَوْضِعِ مَلْحَسِ البَقَرِ أَوْلَادَهَا [in the place of the cows' licking their young ones]; because [some hold that] an Verbal.Noun of the measure مَفْعَلٌ has no pl.

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