مَنْصِبٌ

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مَنْصِبٌ [so accord. to the copies of the S and K in my hands, and the Msb, which states it to be of the same measure as مَسْجِدٌ, and the TA: written by Golius and Freytag مَنْصَبٌ:] and نِصَابٌ Origin; source; of anything; that to which a person or thing is referred, as his or its source; syn. مَرْجِعٌ; place where, or whence, a thing grows; place where a person or thing is set, or set up. Pl. [of the former, مَنَاصِبُ, and] of the latter, نُصُبٌ and أَنْصِبَةٌ.
2 لَهُ مَنْصِبُ صِدْقٍ He has an excellent origin.
3 هُوَ يرْجِع إِلَى منصبِ صِدْقٍ and صدق, He traces back his lineage to an excellent origin.
4 مَنْصِبٌ Rank, or quality, nobility, or eminence, and the like, absolutely, or derived from ancestry: syn. حَسَبٌ and شَرَفٌ: from the same word as signifying “ origin, source, &c. ”
5 لِفُلَانٍ مَنْصِبٌ To such a one pertains eminence of rank or station.
6 إِمْرَأَةٌ ذَاتُ منصبٍ A woman of rank or quality &c., (حَسَب,) and of beauty: or of beauty alone; because alone it exalts her.
7 مَنْصِبٌ, in the language of those of post-classical times, [and commonly pronounced, in the present day, مَنْصَبٌ,] A post, an office, a function, or a magistracy; as though meaning the place in which a man is set, set up, or elevated; or in which he is set, or set up, to see, or observe, [or supervise]: pl. مَنَاصِبُ.
8 [أَرْبَابُ المَنَاصِبِ Functionaries; magistrates.]
9 See مِنْصَبٌ.

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