مَصْغًى

[A place of inclining, or to which to incline]. It is said in a prov., الصَّبِىُّ أَعْلَمُ بِمَصْغَى خَدِّهِ [The child best knows the place of inclining of his cheek]: i. e. he best knows to whom he should betake himself, or whither it will profit him [to go]. (TA. [See also Freytag's Arab. Prov., i. 715.])