صطب

مِصْطَبَةٌ ذ (so in copies of the K) [and مَصْطَبَةٌ, like مَسْطَبَةٌ], or مِصْطَبَّةٌ, (so accord. to the TA, with teshdeed to the ب, [but the word is of frequent occurrence and commonly written without tesh-deed,]) A place where people assemble, (AHeyth, TA,) like a دُكَّان, [i. e. a kind of wide bench, of stone or brick &c., generally built against a wall, ] for the purpose of sitting upon it: (AHeyth, K, TA:) Az heard an Arab of the desert, of the tribe of Fezárah, apply this word to a square, flat-topped pile of earth, raised for the purpose of passing the night upon it: (TA:) also, [sometimes, app. in late ages,] a hospice for strangers; or a place in which the poor and the beggars assemble: (MA, and Har p. 375:) not [originally, or properly,] an Arabic word: (Har ubi suprà:) [see more in art. سطب, for it is a dial. var. of مَسْطَبَةٌ,] of the dial. of Baghdád: (MA:) [the pl. is مَصَاطِبُ.] ― -b2- See also the next preceding paragraph.