إِبْنِ Ibn in Arabic
إِبْنِ is how you say “Ibn” in Arabic.
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Example sentence
قِبْلَ إِبْنِ صَيَّادٍ،
In front of Ibn Sayyad,
إِبْنِ Ibn
A 'son of/Ibn' word linking to a name, forming a tight pairing with the following word in the genitive after the preposition; it is the patronymic hinge.
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More example sentences
أَنْ يَسْمَعَ مِنْ إِبْنِ صَيَّادٍ شَيْئًا قَبْلَ أَنْ يَرَاهُ
to hear something from Ibn Sayyad before he sees him
إِبْنِ son of
The 'son of' head of a name-chain, held in the genitive by the preposition before it. It leans onto the following name to complete the identification and owns it, forming one patronymic that names the source.
لَمْ يَتَغَيَّرُوا عَلَى إِبْنِهِ
They did not turn against his son.
ابْنه his son
A noun with -hu fixing 'his' to it, in the genitive because the preposition before governs it. The 'his' points back to the elder, marking the boy as his son.