Arabic vocabulary
أَبٌfather of
How to say “father of” in Arabic, with pronunciation and an example from OpenArabic texts.
Example sentences
فَقَالَ أَهْلُ السُّنَّةِ يَقْصِدُ أَبَا بَكْرٍ؛
The Sunnis said that he meant Abu Bakr.
أَبَا — Abu. A noun, 'father of', the first half of the honorific name Abu Bakr, in the object case as what 'he meant'. It owns the name after it and reads with it as a single naming unit; one of Arabic's special nouns whose case shows by a long vowel.
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