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مكن empower in Arabic

مكن is how you say “empower” in Arabic.

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Example sentence

قُلْتُ لَهُ وَلَا يَنْتَقِضُ هَذَا بِالْمُلُوكِ الظَّلَمَةِ الَّذِينَ مَكَّنَهُمُ اللَّهُ فِي الْأَرْضِ وَقْتًا مَا

I said to him, 'This is not refuted by the oppressive kings whom God empowered on the earth for a period of time.'

مَكَّنَهُمُ empowered them

This is a past-tense verb in the doubled-middle pattern meaning to give power, with an attached object pronoun, 'empowered them', the pronoun pointing to the kings. Its subject, God, is named in the next word, after the verb in normal order.

From Signs of the Messenger in Medina

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