تسكين

See also: تشكين

Arabic

Root
س ك ن (s k n)
16 terms

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 الأَلَم ― taskīn al-ʔalam ― pain relief

4. (grammar) pronouncing a consonant without a following vowel

Declension

Declension of noun تَسْكِين (taskīn)

Singular	basic singular triptote
	Indefinite	Definite	Construct
Informal	تَسْكِين taskīn	التَّسْكِين at-taskīn	تَسْكِين taskīn
Nominative	تَسْكِينٌ taskīnun	التَّسْكِينُ at-taskīnu	تَسْكِينُ taskīnu
Accusative	تَسْكِينًا taskīnan	التَّسْكِينَ at-taskīna	تَسْكِينَ taskīna
Genitive	تَسْكِينٍ taskīnin	التَّسْكِينِ at-taskīni	تَسْكِينِ taskīni

Descendants

• → Azerbaijani: təskin
• → Persian: تسکین
• → Ottoman Turkish: تسكین
  • → Turkish: teskin
  • → Crimean Tatar: teskin
• → Uyghur: تەسكىن (teskin)
• → Uzbek: taskin

References

• Steingass, Francis Joseph (1884) “تسكين”, in The Student's Arabic–English Dictionary‎^[1], 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