English Explanatory Dictionary

noun of place

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. In Arabic and other Semitic languages, a noun formed from a root and expressing the sense of "place of X".

Word forms

noun of place nouns of place

Etymology

Calque of Arabic اِسْم مَكَان (ism makān)

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