مَلْعَبٌ

A place of playing, sporting, gaming, or the like; a place where plays, games, or sports, are performed: (S, K:) plural مَلَاعِبُ. (TA.)

مَلَاعِبُ الرِّيحِ [plural (tropical:) The sporting-places of the wind;] places where the wind blows, or has blown, vehemently: synonym مَدَارِجُهَا. (K.)

تَرَكْتُهُ فِى مَلَاعِبِ الجِنِّ (tropical:) [I left him in the sporting-places of the Jinn, or genii]: i. e., in such a place that he did not know where he was. (TA.)