سكون

See also: شكون

Arabic

Root
س ك ن (s-k-n)

Etymology

Verbal noun of سَكَنَ (sakana).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /su.kuːn/

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Noun

سُكُون • (sukūn) m

1. verbal noun of سَكَنَ (sakana) (form I)
2. quiet, rest, quietude
3. stasis, stillness
4. dwelling, living
5. quiescence of a consonant
6. (linguistics) sukun, sukūn (a sign in Arabic writing indicating the absence of a vowel)
7. poverty, misery
8. (computing) sleep mode

Declension

Declension of noun سُكُون (sukūn)

Singular	basic singular triptote
	Indefinite	Definite	Construct
Informal	سُكُون sukūn	السُّكُون as-sukūn	سُكُون sukūn
Nominative	سُكُونٌ sukūnun	السُّكُونُ as-sukūnu	سُكُونُ sukūnu
Accusative	سُكُونًا sukūnan	السُّكُونَ as-sukūna	سُكُونَ sukūna
Genitive	سُكُونٍ sukūnin	السُّكُونِ as-sukūni	سُكُونِ sukūni

Antonyms

• حَرَكَة (ḥaraka)

Descendants

• → Azerbaijani: sükun
• → Persian: سکون
  • → Urdu: سُکُون (sukūn)
  • → Hindi: सुकून (sukūn)
• → Ottoman Turkish: سكون (sükûn)
  • Turkish: sükûn

References

• Steingass, Francis Joseph (1884) “سكون”, in The Student's Arabic–English Dictionary‎^[1], London: W.H. Allen
• Wehr, Hans (1979) “سكن”, in J. Milton Cowan, editor, A Dictionary of Modern Written Arabic, 4th edition, Ithaca, NY: Spoken Language Services, →ISBN