مَرَاكِدُ

[plural of مَرْكَدٌ, like مَرْكَزٌ,] Places in which a man, or some other thing, remains still, or motionless. (S, A, * L.) And Much depressed parts of the earth. (L.) Usámeh Ibn-Habeeb El-Hudhalee says, describing an ass [i. e. a wild ass] that had been chased by horses, or horsemen, and had fied for refuge to the mountains, whence, from their ravines, he saw the sky like streaks,

أَرْتْهُ مِنَ الجَرْبَاءِ فِى كُلِّ مَوْطِنٍ

طِبَابًا فَمَثْوَاهُ النَّهَارَ المَرَاكِدُ

[They (the ravines) showed him, in every spot where he stopped, streaks of the shy, and the much-depressed parts of the earth were his places of abode all the day]. (S, * L.) [J quotes this verse, in the S, but with مَنْزِلٍ in the place of موطن, and مَرْعَاهُ in the place of مثواه, as an example of مراكد in the former of the senses explained above.]