مَزْكَأٌ ذ A refuge; an asylum; a place to which one has recourse for refuge, protection, preservation, concealment, covert, or lodging: [and applied to a man:] a poet says, speaking of Bishr Ibn-Marwán, “ وَنِعْمَ مَزْكَأُ مَنْ ضَاقَتْ مَذَاهِبُهُ
” [And excellent, or most excellent, is the refuge of him whose ways have become strait]. (TA.)
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