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يَسْكُن settle/find contentment in Arabic

يَسْكُن is how you say “settle/find contentment” in Arabic.

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Example sentence

ليمتحن أيسكن إِلَيْهَا فَتكون حَظه

To test whether he finds contentment with them as his portion.

أَيَسْكُنُ whether he finds contentment

The interrogative 'a-' (whether) fused with a present-tense verb 'settles / finds rest', subject 'he' inside — 'whether he is content'. An indirect question, the content of the test.

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More example sentences

لقد دخلا غارا لَا يسكنهُ لابث

Indeed, they entered a cave where no one had stayed.

يَسْكُنُهُ inhabits it

The '-hu' tacked on is the object 'it', pointing back to the cave. Notice there is no 'which' linking this to the cave: Arabic attaches a describing clause directly to an indefinite noun, letting the bare verb do the relative work.

From The Prophet's Refuge in the Cave

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