سَكِنَةٌ

A place; [properly] a place of habitation or abode: plural سَكِنَاتٌ. (L.) It is said in a tradition, اِسْتَقِرُّوا عَلَى سَكِنَاتِكُمْ فَقَدِ انْقَطَعَتِ الهِجْرَةُ, (S, L, K, *) i. e. Rest ye, or remain ye, at your places, (S, L,) or in your places of habitation or abode, (S, L, K,) for emigration has [ended, having] become no longer needful. (L.) And one says, النَّاسُ عَلَى سَكِنَاتِهِمْ, [virtually] meaning, according to Fr, The people are in their right state: (S, L:) and in like manner is explained the saying, تَرَكْتُهُمْ عَلَى سَكِنَاتِهِمْ and ↓ سَكَنَاتِهِمْ and نَزَلَاتِهِمْ; but the approved explanation is, [I left them] at their places of habitation, which is that of Th; or, as in the M, their places of alighting, or abode. (L.)

Also The part, of the neck, which is the resting-place of the head. (S, L, K.) So in the saying, (S, L,) attributed to several poets, (L,)

بِضَرْبِ يُزِيلُ الهَامَ عَنْ سَكِنَاتِهِ

[With a smiting that removes the heads from their resting-places on the necks]. (S, L.)