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مَسْكَن
dwelling /ˈmas.kan/
nounB2#3203 most common
Also: residence, home, abode
Example sentences
مَسْكَني قَريبٌ مِن الجامِعَةِ.
My dwelling is near the university.
انْتَقَلْنا إلى مَسْكَنٍ جَديدٍ الأُسْبوعَ الماضِي.
We moved to a new dwelling last week.
تَبْحَثُ الحُكومَةُ عَنْ حُلولٍ لِمُشْكِلَةِ نَقْصِ المَساكِنِ.
The government is looking for solutions to the housing shortage.
يَحْتاجُ اللاجِئونَ إلى مَساكِنَ آمِنَةٍ بَعيدًا عَنِ الحَرْبِ.
The refugees need safe dwellings far from the war.
أَصْبَحَتِ المَساكِنُ الشَّعبِيَّةُ رَمْزًا لِلتَّحَوُّلِ العُمْرانِيِّ في المَدينَةِ.
Public housing became a symbol of the city's urban transformation.
لا يُمْكِنُ فَصْلُ مَفهومِ المَسْكَنِ عَنِ الشُّعورِ بِالانْتِماءِ الَّذي يَرْبِطُ الإنْسانَ بِمَكانِهِ.
The concept of a dwelling cannot be separated from the sense of belonging that ties a person to their place.
Declension
| Case | Singular | Plural |
|---|---|---|
| Nominative | مَسْكَنٌ | مَسَاكِنُ |
| Genitive | مَسْكَنٍ | مَسَاكِنَ |
| Accusative | مَسْكَنًا | مَسَاكِنَ |
| Vocative | يا مَسْكَنُ | يا مَسَاكِنُ |
Word family
سَكَنَto dwell, to live, to become still
سَاكِنresident; still, motionless
سُكْنَىresidency, act of dwelling
إِسْكَانhousing, provision of dwellings
سُكَّانinhabitants, population
Etymology
Maskan comes from the Semitic root s-k-n, whose core sense is stillness or settling. Arabic builds place-nouns with the pattern ma-fa'al, so maskan literally means the place where one settles or comes to rest. The same root gives Hebrew and Aramaic words for a dwelling place, since these languages share a common Semitic ancestor rather than an Indo-European one.
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