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إِبْرَاهِيمِ Ibrahim in Arabic

إِبْرَاهِيمِ is how you say “Ibrahim” in Arabic.

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عَنْ زَرْعَةِ بْنِ إِبْرَاهِيمِ،

Narrated by Zur'ah, son of Ibrahim,

إِبْرَاهِيمِ Ibrahim

This is the father's name closing the lineage, held in the genitive as the owner half of the 'son of...' pairing. It supplies whose son the narrator is. Its case is inherited from the connecting word before it.

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More example sentences

قِيلَ لإِبْرَاهِيمِ النِّظَامِ

They said to Ibrahim al-Nizam:

لإِبْرَاهِيمِ to Ibrahim

The prefix li- here marks the recipient, 'to', the person the saying is addressed to, and it forces the name after it into the (genitive). So this short unit sets up who the question is put to. It governs the proper name despite that name being foreign in origin.

From On Foolishness and Wisdom

فَقَالَ أَبُو طَالِبِ الْحَمْدُ لِلَّهِ الَّذِي جَعَلْنَا مِنْ ذُرِّيَّةِ إِبْرَاهِيمِ،

Abu Talib said, "Praise be to God, who made us from the descendants of Abraham."

إِبْرَاهِيمِ Abraham

The proper name closes the ownership pairing started by the previous noun, so it is the owner of that 'offspring'. Sitting in the owned-by slot, it carries the genitive (the 'of' ending); a name in this position is what tells you the two words lock into one 'X of Y' phrase.

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