فُلَانَ so-and-so in Arabic
فُلَانَ is how you say “so-and-so” in Arabic.
Arabic
English
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Example sentence
والتهوع بالتسهيل، وأتى بكل خلاف ونادى على نفسه أنا أبو فلان فاعرفوني فإني عارف بالسبع
He put on an ostentatious display of making things easy, entered every dispute, and cried out about his self, "I am the father of so-and-so; recognize me, for I know of the seven."
فُلَانَ so-and-so
A placeholder name 'so-and-so', standing as the owned half of the 'father of...' pairing. It fills the second slot of the 'of' chain, leaving the actual name blank on purpose. Being the possessor in that pairing, it takes the genitive ('of') form.
The English is machine-translated.
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