مسكان - Wiktionary, the free dictionary

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From Aramaic, found as Jewish Palestinian Aramaic and Jewish Babylonian Aramaic מַשְׁכֹּונָא (maškōnā) and Classical Syriac ܡܶܫܟܳܢܳܐ (meškānā), from Akkadian 𒈦𒃷 (MAŠ.GAN₂ /⁠maškanu⁠/).

• IPA^(key): /mus.kaːn/

مُسْكَان • (muskān) m (plural مَسَاكِين (masākīn))

1. (obsolete) earnest money, retainer, pledge

   Synonym: عَرْبُون (ʕarbūn)

• مَسَّكَ (massaka, “to pay retainer to”)

• “مسكان” in Almaany
• Fraenkel, Siegmund (1886) Die aramäischen Fremdwörter im Arabischen (in German), Leiden: E. J. Brill, page 190
• Freytag, Georg (1837) “مسكان”, in Lexicon arabico-latinum praesertim ex Djeuharii Firuzabadiique et aliorum Arabum operibus adhibitis Golii quoque et aliorum libris confectum‎^[1] (in Latin), volume 4, Halle: C. A. Schwetschke, page 179b