مِحْلَالٌ

A place, (S,) or a meadow (رَوْضَةٌ), (K,) and a land (أَرْضٌ), (TA,) and a house (دَارٌ), (Mgh and Msb in article اتى,) in which people alight, or descend and stop, or abide, much, or often; (S, K, TA, and Mgh and Msb ubi suprà;) as also ↓ مُحَلَّلٌ applied to a place: (S, TA:) or chosen as a place of alighting, &c.: or, according to ISd, that makes [or invites] people to alight, &c., in it much, or often; because a word of the measure مِفْعَالٌ has only the meaning of an act. particle n.: and, as some say, a meadow and a land are only thus called if abounding with herbage wholesome to the cattle. (TA.)