Arabic vocabulary
أَبٌfather of in Arabic
أَبٌ is how you say “father of” in Arabic. Hear it pronounced and see it used in a real example sentence from classical texts below.
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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