مرصد

Noun of place from the root ر ص د (r-ṣ-d).

• IPA^(key): /mar.sˤad/

مَرْصَد • (marṣad) m (plural مَرَاصِد (marāṣid))

1. place of observation
   1. (astronomy) observatory
   2. place of ambush
      • 609–632 CE, Qur'an, 9:5:

        فَإِذَا ٱنْسَلَخَ الْأَشْهُرُ الْحُرُمُ فَاقْتُلُوا الْمُشْرِكِينَ حَيْثُ وَجَدتُّمُوهُمْ وَخُذُوهُمْ وَاحْصُرُوهُمْ وَاقْعُدُوا لَهُمْ كُلَّ مَرْصَدٍ

        fa-ʔiḏā nsalaḵa l-ʔašhuru l-ḥurumu fa-qtulū l-mušrikīna ḥayṯu wajadtumū-hum wa-ḵuḏū-hum wa-ḥṣurū-hum wa-qʕudū la-hum kulla marṣadin

        And when the sacred months have passed, then kill the polytheists wherever you find them and capture them and besiege them and sit waiting for them at every place of ambush.

• Freytag, Georg (1833) “مرصد”, in Lexicon arabico-latinum praesertim ex Djeuharii Firuzabadiique et aliorum Arabum operibus adhibitis Golii quoque et aliorum libris confectum‎ (in Latin), volume 2, Halle: C. A. Schwetschke, page 155