سَاكِنٌ
Root: سكن
Full Definition
سَاكِنٌ
Still, motionless, stationary, in a state of rest, quiet, calm, or unruffled: [applied to a letter, quiescent; i. e. without a vowel immediately following it:] still, calm, tranquil, becoming appeased or allayed or assuaged or quelled; [dying away, passing away, or ceasing to be: remitting, or subsiding; becoming alleviated, light, slight, or gentle:] still, or silent. (L. [See its verb, سَكَنَ, first sentence.])
2 Inhabiting, dwel-ling, or abiding; an inhabitant, or a lodger: and سَكَنٌ signifies the same as سَاكِنٌ [app. thus used]: the pl. of سَاكِنٌ is سُكَّانٌ. You say, هُمْ سُكَّانُ فُلَانٍ [They are the lodgers of such a one]. And سُكَّانُ الدَّارِ signifies The Jinn, or Genii, inhabiting the house. (L. [Respecting the custom of sacrificing an animal to the Jinn on the occasion of buying a house, in order to prevent any injury from the Jinn thereof, see ذِبْجٌ. The belief that houses are inhabited by Jinn obtains among the Arabs in the present day.]) See also سَكْنٌ.
3 [Other meanings are indicated by explanations of its verb.]
2 Inhabiting, dwel-ling, or abiding; an inhabitant, or a lodger: and سَكَنٌ signifies the same as سَاكِنٌ [app. thus used]: the pl. of سَاكِنٌ is سُكَّانٌ. You say, هُمْ سُكَّانُ فُلَانٍ [They are the lodgers of such a one]. And سُكَّانُ الدَّارِ signifies The Jinn, or Genii, inhabiting the house. (L. [Respecting the custom of sacrificing an animal to the Jinn on the occasion of buying a house, in order to prevent any injury from the Jinn thereof, see ذِبْجٌ. The belief that houses are inhabited by Jinn obtains among the Arabs in the present day.]) See also سَكْنٌ.
3 [Other meanings are indicated by explanations of its verb.]
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