How to say "to live (reside)" in Arabic
CognateMeaningto live (reside)
Arabic · Modern Standard Arabic
sakanaסכן
سكن
Hebrew · Modern Hebrew
garگَار
How the two words are related
Same Semitic root, same meaning — you already know this word.
Arabic root
س-ك-نHebrew root
ש-כ-ןsakana = שכן, 'to dwell' — the root of שכן (neighbor), שכונה (neighborhood), and משכן. Arabic sukkān (inhabitants) and maskan (dwelling) are the same building.
Related Hebrew word:שכןshakhanشَاخَان
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In a phrase
He lived in Haifa
The root family
س-ك-نש-כ-ן· dwelling
The dwelling root of שכן and שכונה: sakana is שכן, and maskan "residence" is the same shape as משכן, the Tabernacle — God's dwelling. A bonus twin: Israeli מסכן "poor thing" and Arabic miskīn are one word, an ancient loan (ultimately Akkadian muškēnu) that both languages folded into this root. Even the sukūn diacritic belongs here — the mark of a consonant at rest.
- سَكَنَ sakanahe lived (in), dweltשָׁכַןhe dwelt
- سَاكِن sākinresident; living (in)שָׁכֵןneighbor
- سُكَّان sukkāninhabitants, populationשְׁכֵנִיםneighbors
- مَسْكَن maskandwelling, residenceמִשְׁכָּןthe Tabernacle — God's dwelling
- مِسْكِين miskīnpoor, pitifulמִסְכֵּןpoor thing — the same ancient loanword
- سُكُون sukūnstillness; the sukūn (no-vowel) mark