مَجَٰلِس

majolisN mjls A sitting-place; (S, Msb, K;) as also ↓ with p ; (Fr, Lh, Sgh, K;) similar to makaAnN and makaAnapN : (Sgh, TA:) [ a place where persons sit together and converse; a sitting-room: ] a thing upon which one sits: (MF:) some make a strange distinction between majolisN and ↓ majolasN , asserting the former to be applied to the chamber or house ( bayot ) [ in which people sit ]; and the latter, to a place of honour upon which it is forbidden to sit without permission; but the former is the only correct form of the two: (MF, TA:) pl. majaAlisu . (S, Msb.) You say, Aurozuno fiY majolisika and ↓ majolisatika [ Be thou grave ] in thy sitting-place. (Fr, Sgh.) ― -b2- (tropical:) The people of a majolis ; (Msb, TA;) elliptical, for A^aholu majolisK : (TA:) an assembly, or a company of men, sitting [ together ]: (Th, TA:) not well explained as being, with the article Al , syn. with Aln~aAsu : (TA:) persons sitting, or sitting up. (A, TA.) [See also jalosN .] You say, AinofaD~a Almajolisu (assumed tropical:) [ The assembly of persons sitting together broke up ]. (Msb.) And raA^ayotuhumo majolisFA I saw them sitting. (A, TA.) ― -b3- (assumed tropical:) An oration or a discourse, or an exhortation, ( xuTobapN A^awo EiZapN ,) delivered in a majolis ; like maqaAmapN . (Mtr, in the Preface to Har.) ― -b4- It is also used in the same manner as HaDorap and janaAb : you say majolisu fulaAnK [meaning (assumed tropical:) The object of resort, with whom others sit and converse, such a one ]; like HaDorapu fulaAnK . (Kull p. 146.) [See arts. HDr and jnb . But this usage I believe to be post-classical.] ― -b5- [Also (assumed tropical:) A stool; meaning, an evacuation. So in medical books.]