قعد

مَقْعَدٌ ذ A place of sitting; a sitting-place; (L, Msb, K;) as also ↓ مَقْعَدَةٌ: (L, K:) pl. of the former مَقَاعِدُ, (Msb,) signifying sittingplaces of people in the markets &c. (S.) هُوَ مِنِّى مَقْعَدَ القَابِلَةِ [ He is, with respect to me, as though in the sitting-place of the midwife; ] i. e., in nearness; meaning he is sticking close to me, before me: (Sb, S:) denoting nearness of station. (Sb, L.) See also مَعْقِدٌ. ― -b2- [Hence, (tropical:) a place of abode, ] تَرَكُوا مَقَاعِدَهُمْ, (tropical:) They left their places of abode. (A.) ― -b3- A time of sitting. (MF.) ― -b4- ↓ المَقْعَدَةُ The anus [as is shown in the S and Msb, voce بَاسُور &c., and so in modern Arabic; and app. also the posteriors, upon which one sits]: syn. السَّافلَةُ. (S, Msb.)