1.
A place of confinement, restriction, imprisonment, or
the like; a prison; a jail; (
A,
Msb;) as also
↓
مَحْبَسٌ, (
Lth,
A,
TA,) which is also a verbal noun; (
Lth,
TA;) or, according to analogy,
↓
مَحْبِسٌ: (Sb, TA:) plural of the first,
حُبُوسٌ; (
Msb;) and of the second [and third],
مَحَابِسُ. (
A.)