تسكين

See also: تشكين

Arabic

Root
س ك ن (s-k-n)

Etymology

Verbal noun of سَكَّنَ (sakkana).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /tas.kiːn/
  • Rhymes: -iːn

Noun

تَسْكِين • (taskīn) m

  1. verbal noun of سَكَّنَ (sakkana) (form II)
  2. pacification
  3. (medicine) alleviation (of pain)
    تَسْكِين الأَلَمtaskīn al-ʔalampain relief
  4. (grammar) pronouncing a consonant without a following vowel

Declension

Descendants

  • Azerbaijani: təskin
  • Persian: تسکین
  • Ottoman Turkish: تسكین
  • Uzbek: taskin

References

  • Steingass, Francis Joseph (1884) “تسكين”, in The Student's Arabic–English Dictionary, London: W.H. Allen
  • Wehr, Hans (1979) “تسكين”, in J. Milton Cowan, editor, A Dictionary of Modern Written Arabic, 4th edition, Ithaca, NY: Spoken Language Services, →ISBN
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