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Word entry · Arabic
Mumkin.
/mum-kin/· adj. · Arabicexpression
"Possible. Used to ask 'may I?' or 'could you?'"

Means 'possible'. In daily use it softens a request: 'mumkin water?' (could I have water?), 'mumkin?' (is this okay / may I?). The single word does a lot of polite work.

The negative, 'mish mumkin' or 'mu mumkin', means not possible — sometimes literally, sometimes as a firm but face-saving no.