Arabic vocabulary
سكنdwelling in Arabic
سكن is how you say “dwelling” in Arabic. Hear it pronounced and see it used in real example sentences from classical texts below.
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.
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