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مَأْبِضٌ ذ The inner side of the knee (S, A, K) of any thing: (S:) or the inner sides of the two knees are called مَأْبِضَا السَّاقَيْنِ: (T, TA:) or any part upon which a man bends, or folds, his thigh: or what is beneath each thigh, in the prominent places of the lower parts thereof: or the inner side of each thigh, as far as the belly: and also the wrist; the joint of the hand in the fore arm: (TA:) and in the camel, (K,) [i. e.] in each of the fore legs of the camel, (T, TA,) the inner side of the elbow: (T, K, TA:) as also ↓أٌبْضٌ; (IDrd, K;) or, as in [some of] the copies of the S in art. بيض, ↓ أُبُضٌ ; [in one copy of the S ↓ أُبَّضٌ ; and in another, imperfectly written;] but some write it ↓ إِِبِضٌ : and one says, أَخَذَ بِإِِبِضِهِ, meaning He put his hands, or arms, beneath his knees, from behind, and then carried him. (TA.) The pl. of مَأْبِضٌ is مَآبِضُ. (S.)
An Arabic-English Lexicon. London. Williams and Norgate. 1863.
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