صطب
أَصَاطِبُ is the
pl., and أُصَيْطِبٌ is the
dim., of إِصْطَبْلٌ,
q. v. (
TA in art. اصطبل.) أُصْطُبَّةٌ [
i. q. أُسْطُبَّةٌ,
q. v.;] Tow; i. e. what falls from flax in the process of combing. (
M,
K.) مصطب [
app. a mistranscription for ↓ مِصْطَبَةٌ or مَصْطَبَةٌ, like مَسْطَبَةٌ,
q. v.,] A blacksmith's anvil: so in the
T, on the authority of
IAar. (
TA.) مِصْطَبَةٌ (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.
