Arabic vocabulary
إِبْنِ is how you say “Ibn” in Arabic. Hear it pronounced and see it used in real example sentences from classical texts below.
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.
From: A Night with the Companions →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.
From: A Night with the Companions →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.
From: Sheba's Garden and Destruction →OpenArabic teaches words like إِبْنِ through real bilingual reading with native audio and spaced-repetition practice.
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