اِبْنَ son of in Arabic
اِبْنَ is how you say “son of” in Arabic.
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Example sentence
وَقَالَ سَالِمٌ سَمِعْتُ اِبْنَ عُمَرَ ـ رَضِيَ اللَّهُ عَنْهُمَا ـ يَقُولُ
And Salim said, "I heard Ibn Umar, may Allah be pleased with them, say."
اِبْنَ son of
The 'son of' head of a name-chain, the object of 'I heard'. It leans forward onto the following name to finish the identification and grammatically owns it, binding the two into one patronymic naming a single person.
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فَكَأَنَّهُ قَالَ تَعَالَى يَا اِبْنَ آدَمَ أَنَا الأَوَّلُ
It is as if the Exalted said, "O son of Adam, I am the First."
اِبْنَ son of
The noun 'son', here the addressed party in the call 'O son of Adam', so it takes the object-style (accusative) ending the vocative gives a noun that itself owns another noun. It is also the head of a possessive pairing with 'Adam', which it owns.
وَاللَّهِ مَا تَدْرِي يَا اِبْنَ أَخِي
By God, you do not know, O my nephew.
اِبْنَ son
A noun, 'son', heading an 'of' pairing, 'son of my brother', i.e. nephew, used inside the direct address. As the first half of the chain it takes the special form the vocative imposes and draws definiteness from what follows. Arabic builds 'son of X' by juxtaposing the two nouns with no 'of' word.