مَعَادٌ

, signifying Return, is originally مَعْوَدٌ. (IAth, TA.) See عَوْدٌ, first and third sentences.

Also A place to which a person, or thing, returns: a place, state, or result, to which a person, or thing, eventually comes; a place of destination, or an ultimate state or condition: synonym مَرْجِعٌ: and مَصِيرٌ. (S, A, O, K.)

[Hence,] المَعَادُ signifies [particularly] The ultimate state of existence, in the world to come; synonym الاخِرَةُ; (M, K, TA;) [and] so مَعَادُ الخَلْقِ: (S, O:) the place to which one comes on the day of resurrection. (TA.) And Paradise. (K.) And Mekkeh: (O, K:) the conquest of which was promised to the Prophet: (TA:) so called because the pilgrims return to it. (O.) لَرَادُّكَ إِلَى مَعَادٍ, in the Qur'an, 28:85, is explained as meaning will assuredly return thee, or restore thee, to Mekkeh: (O, K:) or معاد here means Paradise: (K:) or thy fixed place in Paradise: (I'Ab, TA:) or the place of thy birth: (Fr, TA:) or thy home and town: (Th, TA:) or thy usual state in which thou wast born: or thy original condition among the sons of Háshim: or, according to most of the expositors, the words mean will assuredly raise thee from the dead. (TA.)

And The pilgrimage. (K.)

And مَعَادٌ (Lth, TA) and ↓ مَعَادَةٌ (Lth, A, TA) A place of wailing for a dead person: (Lth, A, TA:) so called because people return to it time after time: (Lth, * A:) plural مَعَاوِدُ. (A.) [Hence,] one says, ↓ لِالِ فُلَانٍ مَعَادَةٌ, meaning An affliction has happened to the family of such a one, the people coming to them in the places of wailing for the dead, or in other places, and the women talking of him. (Lth, TA.)