Arabic vocabulary
اِبْن is how you say “son of” in Arabic. Hear it pronounced and see it used in a real example sentence from classical texts below.
فَهُوَ مِنْ أَكْبَرِ أَصْحَابِ اِبْنِ يُونُسِ،
He is one of the principal companions of Ibn Yunus.
اِبْنِ — son of. A noun 'son (of)' beginning a name-construct in the genitive, the first half of an 'of' name-pair waiting for the following name. It gives up its own article to that name.
From: An Exiled Scholar's Trials →OpenArabic teaches words like اِبْن through real bilingual reading with native audio and spaced-repetition practice.
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