سكنdwelling

Example sentences

• 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.

  From: Repelling the Devil →

• 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.

  From: Trusting God's Decree →