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أَمْكَنَهُ مِنْ شَىْءِ He made him to have a thing within his power, or reach: enabled him to do, reach, get, or obtain, a thing. See 2. ― -b2- أَمْكَنَهُ It was within his power, or reach; was possible, or practicable, to him. ― -b3- أَمْكَنَهُ It became easy to him. (Msb.) It (an object of the chase) offered him an opportunity to shoot it or capture it; or became within his power, or reach. ― -b4- أَمْكِنِى , said to a woman, [meaning Empower thou; i. e. grant thou access;] occurs in a poem. (S, art. عرض .) ― -b5- أَمْكَنَتْهُ She granted him attainment.

تَمَكَّنَ i. q. اِسْتَقَرَّ : (Msb, art. قر :) it is very often used in this sense, as meaning He, or it, settled; became fixed, or established; it became fixed, or steady, in its place; when said of a man, particularly implying in authority and power: see قَرَّ . ― -b2- تَمَكَّنَ مِنْ شَىْءٍ , and ↓ اِسْتَمْكَنَ , He became possessed of mastery, or dominion, or ascendancy, or authority, and power, over a thing; he was able to avail himself of it: [he was, or became, within reach of him, or it.] (Msb.) ― -b3- تَمَكَّنَ مِنْهُ He assumed authority over him.

اِسْتَمْكَنَ : see 5. ― -b2- He, or it, was, or became, firm. It seems sometimes to mean It (a plant) took firm root.

مُكْنَةٌ , (Msb, TA,) with damm, (TA,) Power; (Msb, * TA;) ability; (TA;) strength. (Msb.)

مَكِنَةٌ i. q. تَمَكُّنُ . (Sh, TA.) ― -b2- النَّاسُ عَلَى مَكِنَاتِهِمْ means على مَقَارِّهِمْ . (IAar, TA.)

مَكَّانُ : see مَصَّانٌ in art. مص .

مَكْنَانٌ : see رَيِّحَةٌ .

مَكَانَةٌ Greatness, and high rank or standing. in the estimation of the Sultán: (Msb:) an honourable place in the estimation of a king. (K.)

جَلَسَ مُتَمَكِّنًا He sat in a firm, or settled, posture; as when one sits cross-legged.