اسْم المَكَان وَالزَّمَان وَالآلَةNouns of place, time and instrument

ism al-makān wa-l-zamān wa-l-āla

mafʿal / mafʿil names where or when: maktab 'desk, office', majlis 'sitting-place'. mifʿal, mifʿāl, mifʿala name the tool: miftāḥ 'key' (f-t-ḥ, opening). Mirʾāt, 'mirror', the image at the centre of Faṣṣ Ādam, is an instrument noun from r-ʾ-y, 'to see': the tool of seeing. ✦AI

• آلَةinstrumentāla

  Root أ و ل · a tool, means

  The thing by which an action is done.

• مَنْصِبٍمَفْعِلنصبFaṣṣ Ādam ¶3 · noun of place or time