صُقْعٌ
1.
A district, quarter, or tract, synonym نَاحِيَةٌ, (S, O, Msb, K,) of a country: (Msb:) and a place, region, quarter, tract, or point, towards which a person, or thing, goes, tends, or is directed; synonym جِهَةٌ: and a place of alighting, or of descending and stopping or sojourning or abiding or lodging or settling; or a place of abode or settlement; synonym مَحَلَّةٌ: (Msb:) plural [of pauc.] أَصْقَاعٌ, (O, TA,) and plural plural أَصَاقِعُ: (TA:) and صُقْغٌ is a dialect var. thereof. (IJ, TA; and K in article صقغ.) One says, فُلَانٌ مِنْ أَهْلِ هٰذَا الصُّقْعِ i. e. مِنْ هٰذِهِ
النَّاحِيَةِ [Such a one is of the people of this district, &c.]. (S, O.) And هُوَ فِى صُقْعِ بَنِى فُلَانٍ
He is in the
نَاحِيَة [or district, &c.], and the
مَحَلَّة [or place of alighting, &c.], of the sons of such a one. (Msb.) See also مِصْقَعٌ.
2.
Also A part, or portion, of the surrounding and inferior sides of a well: plural أَصْقَاعٌ: but the more approved word is with س. (TA.)