This text is part of:
Table of Contents:
مَضْجَعٌ ذ A place in which, or on which, one lies upon his side [or in any manner, or sleeps]; (O, Msb, K;) as also ↓ مُضْطَجَعٌ : (O, K:) [a bed; and the like:] pl. مَضَاجِعُ: (Msb, TA:) which means sometimes places of sleep, or of passing the night: (Bd in iv. 38:) and beds; or other things spread upon the ground to lie upon. (Jel ibid., and Bd in xxxii. 16.) ― -b2- [Hence] the pl. is used as meaning (assumed tropical:) Wives, or women: so in the saying, هُوَ طَيِّبُ المَضَاجِعِ i. e. (assumed tropical:) He has well-born wives or women; like كَرِيمُ المَفَارِشِ. (TA.) ― -b3- And مَضَاجِعُ الغَيْثِ means (tropical:) The places of falling of rain. (O, K, TA.) One says, بَاتَتِ الرِّيَاضُ مَضَاجِعَ لِلْغَيْثِ (tropical:) [The meadows were during the night places of the falling of rain]. (A, TA.)
An Arabic-English Lexicon. London. Williams and Norgate. 1863.
The U.S. Department of Education, The Max Planck Society provided support for entering this text.
This work is licensed under a
Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 United States License.
An XML version of this text is available for download, with the additional restriction that you offer Perseus any modifications you make. Perseus provides credit for all accepted changes, storing new additions in a versioning system.
hide
Dictionary Entry Lookup
Use this tool to search for dictionary entries in all lexica.
