or a murtabaʿ,
“a location where they560 reside at the time of the autumn rains”
or a maṣīf or mashtā,
[“a summering or a wintering spot”] “too well known to require definition”
or a daskarah,
“a building like a palace with houses around it, or…”561
or a mashraqah,
“a place to sit in the sun in winter”
2.14.36
or a maḍḥāh,
[“a land of sunshine”] “a land that is maḍḥāh is one that is sunny almost all the time”
or a ẓullah,
“something like a portico in which one finds shelter from the heat and the cold”
or a mashrabah,
“a chamber, or upper chamber, or portico”
or a suʿnah,
“a rooftop shelter from the heat and humidity, or any shelter whatsoever”
or a miẓallah,
“the larger kind of tent”
or a sābāṭ,
“a roofing between two houses with a street beneath it”
or a ʿirzāl,
“a small house used for the king when he is at war, or…”562
or a kinn,
“a house”
or a qayṭūn,
“a closet”
2.14.37
or a sarab,
“a subterranean excavation”
or a dīmās,
“a kinn, or a sarab, or a bathing chamber”
or a burj,
[tower] “too well known to require definition”
or a ṣahwah,
“a tower on top of a hill”
or a ṣarḥ,
“a palace, or any tall building”
or a ʿaqr,
“a high building”
or a ṭirbāl,
“any tall building”
or a azaj,
“a kind of building”563
or a īwān,
“a large portico, like the azaj”
or a riwāq,
“a house like a fusṭāṭ, or a roof at the front of a house [i.e., an arcade]”
2.14.38
or a ajam,
“any square, roofed house; spelled ujum it means
‘a fortress’”
or a kaʿbah,
“a room, or any square house”
or a uṭum,
“a palace, or any fortress built of stone, or any square, roofed house”
or a washīʿ,
“a trelliswork structure constructed for the chief in a camp”
or a sunnayq,
“a house plastered with gypsum”
or a jawsaq,
“a palace”
or a dawshaq,
“a house that is neither large nor small, or a huge house”
or a quhqūr,
“a tall stone structure”
or a bughbūr,
“a stone on which an offering is sacrificed to an idol”
or a zūr,
“a gathering place for singing”
2.14.39
or a budd,
“the house of an idol”
or a zūn,
“a place where idols are gathered, erected, and adorned”
or a masjid,
[“mosque”] “too well known to require definition”
or a kanīsah,
[“church” or “synagogue”] “too well known to require definition”
or a fuhr,
“the midrās (‘midrash’) of the Jews in which they gather on their festival, or…”564
or a midrās,
“a place in which the Qurʾan is recited; origin of the midrās of the Jews”
or Kawkabān,
“a castle in Yemen whose inside was studded with rubies so that it shone like a star”
or al-Jawsaq,
“a house built for al-Muqtadir565 inside the caliph’s house in which was a pool of lead566 thirty cubits by twenty”
or Qaṣr al-Nuʿmān,
[the Palace of al-Nuʿmān]567 that was built for him by al-Sinimmār; the latter was an artisan who built a palace for al-Nuʿmān, son of Imruʾ al-Qays; when he finished it, the latter threw him from its highest point so that he could never build another like it; or he was a slave of Uḥayḥah568 who built a castle; when he finished, Uḥayḥah asked him, “Have you made it strong?” and he responded, “I know a stone in it which, if pulled out, will lead to its utter collapse” and Uḥayḥah asked him which stone it was, so he showed it to him, and then Uḥayḥah pushed him off the castle and he was killed
or al-Jaʿfarī,
“a palace of al-Mutawakkil’s569 close to Surra Man Raʾā”
2.14.40
or al-Mārid,
[“the Defiant”] “a castle at Dawmat al-Jandal”570
or al-Ablaq,
[“the Piebald”] “a castle at Taymāʾ, one of two that al-Zabbāʾ tried and failed to take, leading her to say, ‘al-Mārid defied me, and al-Ablaq was too strong’”
or Ṣirwāḥ,
“a castle built by the jinn for Bilqīs”
or Dār al-Khayzurān,
“at Mecca, built by Khayzurān,571 the caliph’s slave girl”
or Qaṣr Bahrām Jūr,
“made from a single rock, near Hamadhān”
or Qaṣr Ghafrāʾ,
“in Syria”
or al-Badīʿ,
“a large building of al-Mutawakkil’s, at Surra Man Raʾā”
or Zuʿayrah,
“a castle close to al-Karak”
or Qaṣr ʿIsl,
“at Baṣrah”
or al-Nadd,
“a castle in Yemen”
2.14.41
or al-Ghufr,
another castle there