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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.

From A Night with the Companions

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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.

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

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