مَسْكَنَةٌ
Root: سكن
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مَسْكَنَةٌ
The state of him who is termed
مِسْكِينٌ: primarily, lowliness, humility, or submissiveness: and meaning also lowness, abjectness, ignominiousness, abasement, or humiliation; and paucity of property; and an evil state or condition; also poverty of mind; and weakness; it is from السُّكُونُ [an Verbal.Noun of سَكَنَ meaning as expl. in the first sentence of this art.].
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