مَثَابَة

mavaAbapN mvAb mvAbh mvAbp (accord. to Aboo-Is-hák originally ↓ mavowabapN , T) A place to which people return, (ISh, Aboo-Is-hák, T, S, Msb,) or to which one returns, (ISh, S, Msb,) time after time; (S;) and ↓ mavaAbN signifies the same: (Aboo-Is-hák, T:) and the former, a place of assembly or congregation: (ISh:) or a place where people assemble, or congregate, after they have separated, or dispersed; as also ↓ the latter word: (M, K:) and a place of alighting or abode; an abode; or a house; because the inhabitants thereof return to it (ISh, S) after having gone to their affairs: (S:) the pl. is mavaAbaAtN ; [also mentioned above as pl. of mavaAbN ;] (ISh;) or it is ↓ mavaAbN ; (S;) [or this is a coll. gen. n.;] or, accord. to Fr and others, mavaAabapN and ↓ mavaAbN are the same: Th says that a house, or tent, ( bayot ,) is called mavaAbapN ; and some say ↓ mavowabapN ; but no one reads thus [in the Kur]. (TA.) It has the first of all these meanings in the Kur ii. 119: (T, S, Bd, Jel, TA:) or it there means a place of recompense or reward for the pilgrimage to the Kaabeh and the visitation thereof. (Bd.) ― -b2- And, sometimes, The place where the hunter, or fowler, puts his snare. (S.) ― -b3- mavaAbapN Albiy^ori (tropical:) The place where the water of the well collects: (A, TA:) or the place reached by the water of the well when it returns and collects after one has drawn from it. (M, K.) [Hence,] jam~ato mavaAbapu jaholihi (tropical:) His ignorance became confirmed. (A, TA.) And kaAna yasotajim~u mavaAbapa safahihi (tropical:) [ He used to wait for his lightwittedness, or silliness, to attain its full degree ]: a metaphorical phrase, occurring in a trad. (Har p. 68.) ― -b4- Also (assumed tropical:) The stones that project, or overhang, around the well, (M, K,) upon which the man sometimes stands in order that the bucket ( dalow or garob ) may not strike against the side of the well: (M:) or the place where it is walled round within ( mawoDiEu Tay~ihaA ): (K:) or, accord. to IAar, it means TaY~u Albiy^ori ; but [ISd says,] I know not whether he mean thereby mawoDiEu Tay~ihaA , or the building it [or walling it round within ] with stones; though it is rarely that a word of the measure mafaEalapN [like mvAbp ] is an inf. n. (M.) [See mavaAbN : and see what is said of tavowiybN in the last sentence of the second paragraph of art. vrb .] ― -b5- mavaAbaAtN [the pl.] also signifies (assumed tropical:) The foundations of a house. (IAar, T.) -A2- See also vawaAbN .