مَقْعَدٌ
1.
A place of sitting; a sitting-place; (L, Msb, K;) as also
مَقْعَدَةٌ: (L, K:) plural of the former مَقَاعِدُ, (Msb,) signifying sittingplaces of people in the markets &c. (S.) هُوَ مِنِّى مَقْعَدَ القَابِلَةِ [He is, with respect to me, as though in the sitting-place of the midwife;] i. e., in nearness; meaning he is sticking close to me, before me: (Sb, S:) denoting nearness of station. (Sb, L.) See also مَعْقِدٌ.
2.
[Hence, (tropical:) a place of abode,] تَرَكُوا مَقَاعِدَهُمْ, (tropical:) They left their places of abode. (A.)
3.
A time of sitting. (MF.)
4.
المَقْعَدَةُ
The anus [as is shown in the S and Msb, voce بَاسُور &c., and so in modern Arabic; and apparently also the posteriors, upon which one sits]: synonym السَّافلَةُ. (S, Msb.)