Classical Arabic - English Dictionary

مَكَّنَهُ He gave him a place: (Jel, vi. 6:) he assigned him a place, and settled, or established, him. (Bḍ, ibid, where see more.) You say also, مَكَّنَ لَهُ فِى مَنْزِلٍ [He assigned, or gave, him a place in an abode]. (Ṣ in art. بوأ.)

مَكَّنَهُ مِنْ شَىْءٍ, andأَمْكَنَهُ↓, He made him to have mastery, or dominion, or ascendancy, or authority, and power, over a thing; (Mṣb;) put it in his power.

مَكَّنَهُ مِنَ الشَّىْءِ, andأَمْكَنَ↓ مِنْهُ, He empowered him, enabled him, or rendered him able, to do the thing: he enabled him to have the thing within his power. Ex.أَمْكَنَ↓ يَدَيْهِ مِنْ رُكْبَتَيْهِ He enabled his hands to take and grasp his knees. from a trad. (Mgh.)

أَمْكَنَهُ مِنْ شَىْءِ He made him to have a thing within his power, or reach: enabled him to do, reach, get, or obtain, a thing. See 2.

أَمْكَنَهُ It was within his power, or reach; was possible, or practicable, to him.

أَمْكَنَهُ It became easy to him. (Mṣb.) It (an object of the chase) offered him an opportunity to shoot it or capture it; or became within his power, or reach.

أَمْكِنِى, said to a woman, [meaning Empower thou; i. e. grant thou access;] occurs in a poem. (Ṣ, art. عرض.)

أَمْكَنَتْهُ She granted him attainment.

تَمَكَّنَ i. q. اِسْتَقَرَّ: (Mṣb, 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.

تَمَكَّنَ مِنْ شَىْءٍ, andاِسْتَمْكَنَ↓, 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.] (Mṣb.)

تَمَكَّنَ مِنْهُ He assumed authority over him.

اِسْتَمْكَنَ: see 5.

He, or it, was, or became, firm. It seems sometimes to mean It (a plant) took firm root.

مُكْنَةٌ, (Mṣb, TA,) with damm, (TA,) Power; (Mṣb,* TA;) ability; (TA;) strength. (Mṣb.)

مَكِنَةٌ i. q. تَمَكُّنُ. (Sh, TA.)

النَّاسُ عَلَى مَكِنَاتِهِمْ means على مَقَارِّهِمْ. (IAạr, TA.)

مَكَانَةٌ Greatness, and high rank or standing. in the estimation of the Sultán: (Mṣb:) an honourable place in the estimation of a king. (Ḳ.)

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