أَبُ Abu in Arabic
أَبُ is how you say “Abu” in Arabic.
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وقال أبو إسحاق الرجع المطر لأنه يجيء ويرجع ويتكرر
Abu Ishaq said: The returning is the rain because it comes and returns repeatedly.
أَبُو Abu
Part of a teknonym name, literally 'father of', that opens an 'of' pairing with the following name. As the subject of 'said' it sits in the nominative; its long final vowel is the special nominative shape of this group of kinship words.
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وقال أبو إسحاق الرجع المطر لأنه يجيء ويرجع ويتكرر
Abu Ishaq said the return is rain because it comes and goes repeatedly.
أَبُو Abu
This is the noun 'father-of', the front of a name-pair 'father of Ishaq'. It is part of the standard Arabic naming pattern where a person is called by 'father of so-and-so'. It heads into the genitive name that follows and owns it.
كان أبوه مولى لرجل من الأنصار،
His father was a freedman of a man from the Ansar.
أَبُوهُ his father
This noun carries an attached 'his', so one word means 'his father', and it is the subject of 'was', hence the subject form. The fused 'his' points back to Al-Hasan, marking whose father.
وَقَدْ ضَمَّ الْأَبُ إِلَى الْتَسَبُّبِ فِي إِيجَادِهِ مَحَبَّتَهُ بَعْدَ وُجُودِهِ،
And indeed, the father added to the causing of his coming into being his love after his coming into existence.
الْأَبُ the father
This noun carries al- 'the' and is the subject of 'added', wearing the subject-style -u ending that marks him as the doer. Arabic puts the subject after its verb here, and the -u ending is what flags it as the agent. So 'the father' is the one doing the adding.
وَكَمْ صِغَرٍ قَاسَى الأَبُ لِأَجَلِّ الصِّغَارِ،
And how often the father endured hardship for the little ones,
الأَبُ the father
Carries al- ('the') and is the doer of 'endured' just before it — the delayed subject in the verb-first order. As the agent it takes the nominative ending. The definiteness makes 'the father' a specific, known figure in the scene.
فَقَالَ أَبُ بَكْرٍ ـ وَكَانَ رَجُلًا رَقِيقًا ـ يَا عُمَرُ صَلِّ بِالنَّاسِ
Abu Bakr, who was a gentle man, said, "O Umar, lead the people in prayer."
أَبُ Abu
The 'father of' word opening a kunya name, set as the front term of a pairing with the following name and standing as the subject of 'said'. It heads the two-word name.
قال الامام الحافظ أبو الفضل القاضي عياض ﵀
Imam Al-Hafiz Abu Al-Fadl Qadi Iyad, may Allah have mercy on him, said:
أَبُو Abu
A kunya element 'father of', the head of a 'father-of-...' pairing that forms a teknonym. As the head of this possessive pairing it leans on the name that follows, with no word for 'of' between them. It continues the run of names for the same speaker.