صقع

صُقْعٌ ذ A district, quarter, or tract, syn. نَاحِيَةٌ, (S, O, Msb, K,) of a country: (Msb:) and a place, region, quarter, tract, or point, towards which a person, or thing, goes, tends, or is directed; syn. جِهَةٌ: and a place of alighting, or of descending and stopping or sojourning or abiding or lodging or settling; or a place of abode or settlement; syn. مَحَلَّةٌ: (Msb:) pl. [of pauc.] أَصْقَاعٌ, (O, TA,) and pl. pl. أَصَاقِعُ: (TA:) and صُقْغٌ is a dial. var. thereof. (IJ, TA; and K in art. صقغ.) One says, فُلَانٌ مِنْ أَهْلِ هٰذَا الصُّقْعِ i. e. مِنْ هٰذِهِ النَّاحِيَةِ [ Such a one is of the people of this district, &c.]. (S, O.) And هُوَ فِى صُقْعِ بَنِى فُلَانٍ He is in the نَاحِيَة [or district, &c.], and the مَحَلَّة [or place of alighting, &c.], of the sons of such a one. (Msb.) See also مِصْقَعٌ. ― -b2- Also A part, or portion, of the surrounding and inferior sides of a well: pl. أَصْقَاعٌ: but the more approved word is with س. (TA.)