سكن dwelling in Arabic
سكن is how you say “dwelling” in Arabic.
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Example sentence
واتخذه سكنًا ومستقرًّا،
and made it a dwelling and a place of stability.
سَكَنًا dwelling
The second object of 'made it', accusative (the tanwin) — 'made it into a dwelling'. Indefinite and accusative, it names the result, the role the house was turned to.
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More example sentences
سكنت نفسه واطمأن قلبه
his soul is at rest and his heart is assured.
سَكَنَتْ is at rest
A past-tense verb, 'comes to rest', wearing a small ending that marks its subject as feminine, because 'soul' is treated as a feminine word in Arabic. This agreement-mark is the verb's way of pointing ahead to the kind of subject coming, something English verbs do not do.