م ك ن

م ك ن • (m-k-n)

1. related to might, power

• Form I: مَكُنَ‎ (makuna, “to have power”)
  • Verbal noun: مَكَانَة‎ (makāna)
  • Active participle: مَاكِن‎ (mākin)
• Form II: مَكَّنَ‎ (makkana, “to empower”)
  • Verbal noun: تَمْكِين‎ (tamkīn)
  • Active participle: مُمَكِّن‎ (mumakkin)
  • Passive participle: مُمَكَّن‎ (mumakkan)
• Form IV: أَمْكَنَ‎ (ʾamkana, “to empower”)
  • Verbal noun: إِمْكَان‎ (ʾimkān)
  • Active participle: مُمْكِن‎ (mumkin)
  • Passive participle: مُمْكَن‎ (mumkan)
• Form V: تَمَكَّنَ‎ (tamakkana, “to gain power”)
  • Verbal noun: تَمَكُّن‎ (tamakkun)
  • Active participle: مُتَمَكِّن‎ (mutamakkin)
  • Passive participle: مُتَمَكَّن‎ (mutamakkan)
• Form X: اِسْتَمْكَنَ‎ (istamkana, “to gain foot; to gain power”)
  • Verbal noun: اِسْتِمْكَان‎ (istimkān)
  • Active participle: مُسْتَمْكِن‎ (mustamkin)
  • Passive participle: مُسْتَمْكَن‎ (mustamkan)

• مُكْنَة‎ (mukna), مَكِنَة‎ (makina, “power”)

• مَكِين‎ (makīn, “solid, powerful”); pl. مُكَنَاء‎ (mukanāʾ)

• Kazimirski, Albin de Biberstein (1860), “م ك ن”, in Dictionnaire arabe-français contenant toutes les racines de la langue arabe, leurs dérivés, tant dans l’idiome vulgaire que dans l’idiome littéral, ainsi que les dialectes d’Alger et de Maroc (in French), volume 2, Paris: Maisonneuve et C^ie, pages 1139–1140