# مكان
## Arabic

* Root
* ك و ن (k w n)
* 10 terms

### Etymology

Noun of place from the verb كَانَ (kāna). Cognate with Hebrew מָכוֹן (mɔḵōn) and Ge'ez መካን (mäkan).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ma.kaːn/

### Noun

مَكَان • (makān) m (plural أَمْكِنَة (ʔamkina) or أَمَاكِن (ʔamākin))
* place, location, position
    Synonyms: مَكَانَة (makāna), مَوْضِع (mawḍiʕ), مَقَام (maqām)
* status, dignity
    Synonyms: مَكَانَة (makāna), مَنْزِلَة (manzila), شَأْن (šaʔn)
* in place of
** 609–632 CE, Qur'an, 7:95:ثُمَّ بَدَّلْنَا مَكَانَ ٱلسَّيِّئَةِ ٱلْحَسَنَةَ حَتَّى عَفَوْاṯumma baddalnā makāna s-sayyiʔati l-ḥasanata ḥattā ʕafaw(please add an English translation of this quotation)

#### Derived terms

* مَكَانَكَ (makānaka)

#### Descendants

* Gulf Arabic: مُكان (mukān)
* Maltese: mkien
* Moroccan Arabic: مكان (mkān)
* Sudanese Arabic: بكان (bakān)
** Nubi: bakan
* → Bengali: মকান (mokan)
* → Azerbaijani: məkan
* → Crimean Tatar: mekân
* → Kazakh: мекен (meken)
* → Ottoman Turkish: مكان (meḱan)
** Turkish: mekân
* → Persian: مکان (makân)
** → Punjabi: ਮਕਾਨ (makān)
* → Uzbek: makon

## Moroccan Arabic

* Root
* ك و ن
* 2 terms

### Etymology

From Arabic مَكَان (makān).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /mkaːn/

### Noun

مكان • (mkān) m (plural مكاين (mkāyin))
* place
    Synonyms: بلاصة (blāṣa), موضع (mawṭaʕ or mawḍaʕ or mūṭaʕ or mūḍaʕ), محل (maḥall)

## Ottoman Turkish
### Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic مَكَان (makān, “place, location”), noun of place from the verb كَانَ (kāna, “to be”).

### Noun

مكان • (mekân) (definite accusative مكانی (mekânı), plural اماكن (emâkin) or امكنه (emkine))
* place, location, position, spot, a particular point in physical space
    Synonyms: اورون (orun), محل (mahal), یر (yer)
* abode, residence, dwelling, a house or place in which a person lives
    Synonym: مسكن (mesken)

#### Derived terms

* مكان رفیع (mekân-ı refiʼ, “exalted position”)
* مكان طوتمق (mekân tutmak, “to settle, establish oneself”)
* مكانلانمق (mekânlanmak, “to settle in a place”)
* مكانی (mekâni, “pertaining to a place, local”)

#### Descendants

* Turkish: mekân

### Further reading

* Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “mekân”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 3116
* Devellioğlu, Ferit (1962) “mekân”, in Osmanlıca-Türkçe Ansiklopedik Lûgat‎‎ (in Turkish), Istanbul: Türk Dil Kurumu, page 721
* Kélékian, Diran (1911) “مكان”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎, Constantinople: Mihran, page 1214
* Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Domicilium”, in Complementum thesauri linguarum orientalium, seu onomasticum latino-turcico-arabico-persicum, simul idem index verborum lexici turcico-arabico-persici, quod latinâ, germanicâ, aliarumque linguarum adjectâ nomenclatione nuper in lucem editum‎, Vienna, columns 425-426
* Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “مكان”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎, Vienna, column 4858
* Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “mekân”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
* Redhouse, James W. (1890) “مكان”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1952

## South Levantine Arabic

* Root
* ك و ن
* 4 terms

### Etymology

From Arabic مَكَان (makān).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ma.kaːn/, [maˈkæːn], [maˈkaːn]
* Audio (Amman):(file)

### Noun

مكان • (makān) m (plural أماكن (ʔamāken))
* place
    Synonyms: محل (maḥall), مطرح (maṭraḥ)