What does Al-mṣr mean?

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Discover the meaning of the term Al-mṣr (مصر) in Islamic vocabulary.

Definition Al-mṣr

Al-mṣr according to Kitab at-Ta'rifat (Al-Jurjani)

What cannot contain the greatest mosques of its inhabitants.

Al-mṣr according to Dustur al-'Ulama (Al-Ahmadnagari)

Every place that cannot contain the greatest mosques of its inhabitants, in the Alamgiri. And the misr, according to the explicit transmission (zahir al-riwaya), is the place where there are a market inspector and a judge who establishes the prescribed punishments and executes the judgments, and whose buildings have reached those of Mina; thus in the Zahiriyya and the Fatawa of Qadikhan. In the Khulasa, and upon it reliance is placed, likewise in the Tatarkhaniyya; the meaning of establishing the prescribed punishments is the ability to do so, as is understood from the Ghayathiyya.

Al-mṣr according to Mu'jam al-Mustalahat al-Fiqhiyya

Every district in which the spoils and alms are divided; plural: amsar. 'A place was made a misr': it was made a district, and it became 'mutamassir'.

Al-mṣr according to At-Tawqif (Al-Munawi)

Every delimited land (mamsur), that is, bounded.