إِبْنِIbn

Example sentences

• 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 →