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عَفَّانَ، Affan in Arabic

عَفَّانَ، is how you say “Affan” in Arabic.

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عُثْمَانُ بْنُ عَفَّانَ،

Uthman ibn Affan,

عَفَّانَ Affan

The father's proper name, the owned half of 'son of (so-and-so)', so it sits in the genitive that 'son of' imposes. It closes the patronymic, naming the father. As a name it is definite without an al-, and its case is fixed purely by its slot in the name-pairing.

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