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مَكَانًا a place in Arabic

مَكَانًا is how you say “a place” in Arabic.

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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

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