مَأْكَمَةٌ

, (El-Fárábee,) or مَأْكِمَةٌ, (S,) or both, and ↓ مَأْكَمٌ and ↓ مَأْكِمٌ, (IAth, K,) The hinder part, posteriors, buttocks, or rump, of a woman; synonym عَجِيزَةٌ: (S:) or a portion of flesh on the head of the وَرِك [or haunch]; one of two such portions: (Zj in his “Khalk el-Insán,“ and K:) or these are two protuberances of flesh on the heads of the upper parts of the وَرِكَانِ [or haunches]; on the right and left: (TA:) or they are two portions of flesh conjoining the عَجُز [or buttocks] and the مَتْنَانِ [or two portions of flesh and sinew next the back-bone, on each side]; (K, TA;) or, as in the Nh, conjoining the عَجْب [or rump-bone] and the متنان: or two portions of flesh at the root of the وَرِكَاِ: (TA:) plural مَاكِمُ. (S, K.) Lh mentions the saying, إِنَّهُ لَعَظِيمُ الماكِمِ [Verily he is big in the hinder parts]; as though they called every portion thereof مأكم. (TA.) And one says in reviling a person, يَا ابِنَ أَحْمَرِ المَأْكَمَةِ, meaning O son of him who is red in the سَفِلَةِ. (TA.)