صوم

مَصَامٌ ذ (tropical:) The station, or standing-place, of a horse; as also ↓ مَصَامَةٌ. (S, K, TA.) ― -b2- And مَصَامُ النَّجْمِ (assumed tropical:) The [ imaginary ] place of suspension of the asterism [meaning the Pleiades ]. (M.) Imra-el-Keys says, كَأَنَّ الثُّرَيَّا عُلّقَتْ فِى مَصَامِهَا بِأَمْرَاسِ كَتَّانٍ اـِلَى صُمِّ جَنْدَلِ [ As though the Pleiades were hung, in their place of suspension, by means of ropes of flax, to hard and solid rocks: i. e. they seemed as though they were stationary: he means that the night was tedious to him]. (S. [See EM p. 36, where a reading of the former hemistich different from that above is given, with the same and another reading of the latter hemistich.]) ― -b3- One says also, جِئْتُهُ وَالشَّمْسُ فِى مَصَامِهَا, meaning (assumed tropical:) [ I came to him when the sun was ] in the middle of the sky. (TA.)