مَكَانًاa place

Example sentences

• وَسَوَّيْتُ لِلْنَّبِيِّ صَلَّى اللَّهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ مَكَانًا بِيَدَيَّ يَنَامُ عَلَيْهِ،

  And I smoothed out a place with my two hands for the Prophet, may God bless him and grant him peace, to sleep on it.

  مَكَانًا — a place. An indefinite noun, a spot, serving as the object of 'smoothed out', so it takes the object ending; its trailing '-an' marks it indefinite. That added '-n' sound is how Arabic puts 'a/an' on the end of a word. It names what was prepared.

  From: A Night with the Prophet →