The Arabic root م ك ن

Verbs

Nouns and adjectives

Lane's Lexicon

Arabic–English, 1863–93 · 10 entries

مَكَّنَهُ Form II He gave him a place

He gave him a place: (Jel, vi. 6:) he assigned him a place, and settled, or established, him. (Bd, ibid, where see more.) You say also, مَكَّنَ لَهُ فِى مَنْزِلٍ [He assigned, or gave, him a place in an abode]. (S in art. بوأ.) ― -b2- مَكَّنَهُ مِنْ شَىْءٍ, and ↓ أَمْكَنَهُ, He made him to have mastery, or dominion, or ascendancy, or authority, and power, over a thing; (Msb;) put it in his power. ― -b3- مَكَّنَهُ مِنَ الشَّىْءِ, and مِنْهُ ↓ أَمْكَنَ, He empowered him, enabled him, or rendered him able, to do the thing: he enabled him to have the thing within his power. Ex. يَدَيْهِ ↓ أَمْكَنَ مِنْ رُكْبَتَيْهِ He enabled his hands to take and grasp his knees. from a trad. (Mgh.)
أَمْكَنَهُ مِنْ شَىْءِ Form IV He made him to have a thing within his power, or reach: enabled him to do, reach, get, or obtain, a thing

He made him to have a thing within his power, or reach: enabled him to do, reach, get, or obtain, a thing. See 2. ― -b2- أَمْكَنَهُ It was within his power, or reach; was possible, or practicable, to him. ― -b3- أَمْكَنَهُ It became easy to him. (Msb.) It (an object of the chase) offered him an opportunity to shoot it or capture it; or became within his power, or reach. ― -b4- أَمْكِنِى, said to a woman, [meaning Empower thou; i. e. grant thou access;] occurs in a poem. (S, art. عرض.) ― -b5- أَمْكَنَتْهُ She granted him attainment.
تَمَكَّنَ Form V He, or it, settled; became fixed, or established

i. q. اِسْتَقَرَّ: (Msb, art. قر:) it is very often used in this sense, as meaning He, or it, settled; became fixed, or established; it became fixed, or steady, in its place; when said of a man, particularly implying in authority and power: see قَرَّ. ― -b2- تَمَكَّنَ مِنْ شَىْءٍ, and ↓ اِسْتَمْكَنَ, He became possessed of mastery, or dominion, or ascendancy, or authority, and power, over a thing; he was able to avail himself of it: [he was, or became, within reach of him, or it.] (Msb.) ― -b3- تَمَكَّنَ مِنْهُ He assumed authority over him.
اِسْتَمْكَنَ Form X He, or it, was, or became, firm

: see 5. ― -b2- He, or it, was, or became, firm. It seems sometimes to mean It (a plant) took firm root.
مُكْنَةٌ Power

, (Msb, TA,) with damm, (TA,) Power; (Msb, * TA;) ability; (TA;) strength. (Msb.)
مَكِنَةٌ Open entry

i. q. تَمَكُّنُ. (Sh, TA.) ― -b2- النَّاسُ عَلَى مَكِنَاتِهِمْ means على مَقَارِّهِمْ. (IAar, TA.)
مَكَّانُ Open entry

: see مَصَّانٌ in art. مص.
مَكْنَانٌ Open entry

: see رَيِّحَةٌ.
مَكَانَةٌ Greatness, and high rank or standing

Greatness, and high rank or standing. in the estimation of the Sultán: (Msb:) an honourable place in the estimation of a king. (K.)
جَلَسَ مُتَمَكِّنًا He sat in a firm, or settled, posture

He sat in a firm, or settled, posture; as when one sits cross-legged.

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