سكن

From the root س ك ن‎ (s-k-n). Cognate with Hebrew שכן‎.

• IPA^(key): /sa.ka.na/

سَكَنَ • (sakana) I, non-past يَسْكُنُ‎‎ (yaskunu)

1. to be still, to be tranquil, to be peaceful
2. to calm down, to repose, to rest
3. (grammar) to be vowelless, to have no vowel
4. to abate, to subside, to cease
5. to pass, to go away, to leave
6. to trust, to have faith, to be reassured
7. to feel at home

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سَكَنَ • (sakana) I, non-past يَسْكُنُ‎‎ (yaskunu)

1. to live, to reside, to inhabit (construed with فِي‎ (fī) or بِ‎ (bi) or direct object)

   ‏أَسْكُنُ فِي ٱلْقَاهِرَةِ‎ ― ʔaskunu fī l-qāhirati ― I live in Cairo

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• Lane, Edward William (1863), “سكن”, in Arabic-English Lexicon, London: Williams & Norgate
• Wehr, Hans (1979), “سكن”, in J. Milton Cowan, editor, A Dictionary of Modern Written Arabic, 4th edition, Ithaca, NY: Spoken Language Services, →ISBN

• IPA^(key): /sak.ka.na/

سَكَّنَ • (sakkana) II, non-past يُسَكِّنُ‎‎ (yusakkinu)

1. to calm, to reassure, to appease, to placate
2. to soothe, to allay, to alleviate
3. to make vowelless, to pronounce without a vowel

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• IPA^(key): /sa.kan/

سَكَن • (sakan) m

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2. time for rest, means for rest
3. dwelling, abode, habitation
4. inhabited area, habitations
5. ashes

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• رَمَاد‎ (ramād)

• IPA^(key): [si.kin], [sa.kan]

سكن • (sikin, sakan) I (non-past يسكن‎ (yuskun))

1. (transitive or intransitive) to inhabit, to dwell

• Hinds, Martin; Badawi, El-Said (1986), “سكن”, in A Dictionary of Egyptian Arabic‎, Beirut: Librairie du Liban, page 421
• Spiro, Socrates (1895), “سكن”, in An Arabic-English Vocabulary of the Colloquial Arabic of Egypt, 1st edition, Cairo: Al-Mokattam Printing Office, page 283–284

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• IPA^(key): /sa.kan/, [ˈsa.kan]

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سكن • (sakan) I (present بسكن‎ (boskon), active participle ساكن‎ (sāken))

1. to reside (somewhere)

   Synonym: عاش‎ (ʕāš)

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