بَقْعَةٌ

A place in which water remains and stagnates; (K;) [and which is not a usual place of watering: (see بَاقِعَةٌ:) this is what is meant, apparently, by its being said that] بِقَاعٌ, which is its plural, signifies the opposite of مَشَارِعُ [or watering-places to which men and beasts are accustomed to come]. (TA.)