مَحِلّ

maHal~N mHl A place where a person or party alights, or descends and stops or sojourns or abides or lodges or settles; a place of alighting, or descending and stopping &c.; or simply where one takes up his abode, abides, lodges, or settles; (S, Msb, TA;) as also ↓ maHil~N : (Msb:) and ↓ maHal~apN (S, Msb, K) and ↓ Hil~apN , (S,) or ↓ Hal~apN , (K,) signify a [particular, or special,] place of alighting, or descending and stopping &c., (S, Msb, K,) of a people or party: (S, Msb:) the pl. of maHal~N is maHaAl~u ; and the pl. of maHal~apN is maHal~aAtN . (TA.) You say, SidoqK ↓ huwa fiY Hil~api , i. e. SidoqK ↓ fY maHal~api [ He is in a good, or an excellent, place of alighting, &c.]. (S.) ― -b2- [Hence, (assumed tropical:) A place, in a general sense. Thus in the phrase, Hal~a maHal~a ka*aA : see 1. And in the phrases, used in grammar, maHal~uhu Alr~afoEa (assumed tropical:) Its place in construction is that of the nominative case; and marofuwEN maHal~FA (assumed tropical:) Virtually in the nominative case by reason of the place which it occupies in construction; and the like.] ― -b3- [Hence, also,] a term applied by Ks to (assumed tropical:) An adverbial noun of place or time. (T voce ZarofN .) ― -b4- [Hence, also, (assumed tropical:) A person, considered as one in whom some quality has place. ] You say, huwa maHal~N liA^ano yuqaAla fiyhi A_in~ahu laxayorN waEasaY A^ano yafoEala xayorFA (assumed tropical:) [ He is a person fit, or proper, for one's saying of him, Verily he is good, and may-be he will do good ]. (A and TA in art. An .) -A2- It is also an inf. n. (S, TA. [See 1.])

maHil~N mHl : see maHal~N . ― -b2- Also The lawful place of slaughter of a beast for sacrifice; (S;) accord. to some, to the pilgrim on the general day of sacrifice, and to the performer of the Eumorap on the day of his entering Mekkeh; or, as others say, to him who is in the state of A_iHoraAm . (TA.) ― -b3- And The term, or period, of falling due of a debt. (S, TA.) -A2- It is also an inf. n. (K, TA. [See 1.])

muHl~N mHl [ Making one to alight, or descend and stop &c.]. [Hence,] AlmuHil~ataAni (assumed tropical:) The cooking-pot and the hand-mill: and AlmuHil~aAtu the cooking-pot and the hand-mill and the bucket and the knife and the axe and the instrument for striking light ( qad~aAHap , S, or zanod , K) and the water-skin (S, K) and the bowl: (K:) for he who has with him these things alights, or abides, wheresoever he will; but he who has not must be near to persons from whom he may borrow some one or more thereof. (S.) [Hence, also,] taloEapN muHil~apN (assumed tropical:) A tlEp [q. v.] comprising one bayot [or tent ], or two. (O, K.) ― -b2- (assumed tropical:) [ Making a debt to fall due. ] The Arabs used to say, when they saw the new moon, laA maroHabFA bimuHil~i Ald~ayoni wa muqar~ibi AlA=jaAli (assumed tropical:) [ No welcome be to that which makes the debt to fall due, and makes near the appointed periods! ]. (TA.) ― -b3- See also HalaAlN . ― -b4- Also (assumed tropical:) One with whom it is lawful to fight: (S in art. Hrm :) or whom it is lawful to slay: (TA:) contr. of muHorimN , in the former sense, (S ubi suprà,) or in the latter sense. (TA.) ― -b5- (assumed tropical:) One who has no claim, or covenanted right, to protection, or safeguard, or respect; (S, TA;) contr. of muHorimN , in this sense also. (S.) ― -b6- (assumed tropical:) A man who violates that which is sacred: or who does not hold that there is any sacredness pertaining to the sacred month. (K.) ― -b7- See also 4, last sentence but one.