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مَرْكَزٌ ذ A place where a spear or other thing is stuck, or fixed, into the ground, upright: (TA:) a place of firmness, or fixedness. (Msb.) ― -b2- (tropical:) The place of a man; his place of alighting or abiding. (S, K.) ― -b3- (tropical:) The station of an army, or of a body of troops or soldiers, to which its occupants are commanded to keep. (K, TA.) You say, هٰذَا مَرْكَزُ الخَيْلِ (tropical:) [This is the fixed station of the cavalry]. (A.) Pl. مَرَاكِزُ. (A.) ― -b4- The centre of a circle. (S, K.) ― -b5- ↓ رَكِيزَةٌ signifies the same as مَرْكَزٌ [but in what sense I do not find pointed out]. (TA.)
An Arabic-English Lexicon. London. Williams and Norgate. 1863.

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