كَانَ
He or it was. A verb of the class called incomplete, ( نَاقِصٌ ) because, with the agent which it comprises, or to which it relates, it cannot constitute a complete proposition; i. e., non-attributive. The other verbs of this class are, ظَلَّ أَضْحَى أَمْسَى أَصْبَحَ صَارَ , مَا دَامَ مَاا@نْفَكَّ مَا فَتِيءَ مَابَرِحَ مَا زَالَ بَاتَ , and لَيْسَ . Each of these governs its noun, or subject, in the nom. case, and its enunciative, or predicate, in the acc. case; as, كَانَ زَيْدٌ قَايءِمًا
Zeyd was standing. ― -b2- (The ن in يَكُنْ and the like is often irregularly elided.) ― -b3- كَانَ , divested of all signification of time. is often used as a copula. (See De Sacy 's Gr. Ar. i. 196.) So too is كَايءِنٌ ; for هٰذَا زَيْدٌ and هٰذَا كَايءِنٌ زَيْدًا signify the same. (Mughnee, voce أَنَّ .) ― -b4- كَانَ as a complete, i. e., an attributive, verb, see حَصَلَ . in three places.
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تَكَوَّنَ
He, or it, received, or took, his, or its, being, or existence; came into existence; originated.
اِسْتَكَانَ
He was, or became lowly, humble, submissive, or in a state of abasement. (Har, p. 4, q. v.) See اِسْتَكَنَ in art. سكن : and see art. كين .
نَعُوذُ بِاللّٰهِ من الحَوْرِ بَعْدَ الكَوْنِ
: see حَوْرٌ and كَوْرٌ .
كَيْنُونَةٌ
:see شَاخَ .
مَكَانَةٌ
A particular place of being or existence. See an ex. voce نَفْسٌ . ― -b2- مَكَانَكَ وَزَيْدًا [Keep where thou art and approach not Zeyd!] Heard by Ks. (L, art. عند .) ― -b3- State, or condition. [Bd, xi. 122, and xxxix. 40.) See art. مكن . ― -b4- مَكَانٌ
i. q.
مَنْزِلَةٌ . (Bd, xii. 77.) ― -b5- هٰذَا مَكَانٌ
لِقَوْلِنَا كَذَا
This is a ground for our saying thus. ― -b6- أَصْبَحَ مَكَانَ كَذَا
It became as, or like, such a thing. See a verse cited voce رَتْمٌ .