ذبح

مَذْبَحٌ ذ The place of [ the slaughter termed ] الذَّبْح: (K:) i. e. the place, or spot of ground, where الذبح is performed: and the part of the throat which is the place of الذبح, which is that below the part beneath the lower jaw; (MF, TA;) or the حُلْقُوم [i. e. windpipe ]. (Msb.) ― -b2- (tropical:) The chancel of a church; i. e. the part of a church that is like the مِحْرَاب of a mosque: (A, * K, * Msb:) pl. مَذَابِحُ: (A, Msb, K:) the مَذَابِح are the مَحَارِيب (S, A, K) of the Christians; (A;) so called because of the oblations (قَرَابِين) there offered; (S, TA;) the مَقَاصِير (K, TA) in churches, pl. of مَقْصُورَةٌ; said to be the same as the محاريب: (TA:) and the places, (A,) or chambers, (K,) of the books of the Christians. (A, K.) ― -b3- (tropical:) A trench (S, A, K) in the earth, measuring a span or the like [ in width ], (S, K,) such as is made by a torrent: (S, A:) the channel of a torrent in the lower part of the face of a mountain, or in a plain depressed tract, in width equal to the space measured by the extension of the thumb and first finger or little finger; and sometimes it is a natural trench in a plain tract of land, like a river, in which flows the water of that land: it is in all descriptions of land; in valleys &c., and in depressed tracts: (L:) and a kind of river; as though it clave [the earth] or were cleft: (TA:) pl. مَذَابِحُ. (S, A, L.) You say, غَادَرَ السَّيْلُ فِى الأَرْضِ مَذَابِحَ (assumed tropical:) [ The torrent left in the ground trenches about a span wide ]. (S.)