أُمِّ mother of in Arabic
أُمِّ is how you say “mother of” in Arabic.
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Example sentence
فَكَلَّمَ حِزْبُ أُمِّ سَلَمَةِ،
Then Umm Salama's group spoke.
أُمِّ mother of
The 'mother-of' element that opens a teknonym; it heads the by-name and links to the part after it. As the leading piece of the possessive pairing it borrows its definiteness from the name that follows and sits in the genitive as the owner of 'group'.
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More example sentences
فَذَكَرْتُ الَّذِي قُلْتُ لِحَفْصَةِ وَأُمِّ سَلَمَةِ،
So I mentioned what I had said to Hafsa and Umm Salama,
وَأُمِّ and Umm
Two pieces are fused here: the connector wa- linking this name to the previous one, and the title that leads a by-name (literally 'mother of'). That title is the first half of a possessive pairing and stays incomplete until the following name fills the second slot.